Features/Interviews

Israel on Sunday deported a female Palestinian prisoner who spent 43 days on hunger strike to the Gaza Strip, under…

Most of Egypt’s political attention is focused on the coming presidential election and the battle over who will write the…

China is closing a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of…

Presidential candidate Hazem Abu Ismail has gained an almost legendary status online in the past week because of his very…

Parliament trundled along on Thursday, after a dramatic week of partisan squabbling over the constitution and who should write it.…

Former Housing Minister Ibrahim Suleiman was sentenced to eight years in prison and fined LE2.8 billion on Thursday for his…

The US government announced last Friday that it would give the Egyptian military US$1.3 billion in aid for the 2012…

Fire leaps out of the vat of fry oil Hatem uses to make falafel at his small restaurant. Usually, this…

Under the glaring midday sun early last week, Shadia Abdel Aziz, a 52-year-old worker at the Central Auditing Organization (CAO)…

Relations between Islamists and secular political forces are at a low point since the latter withdrew their members from the…