Features/Interviews
US overtures to Egypt Islamists show pragmatism
July 1, 2011
US overtures to Egypt Islamists show pragmatism
A US decision to resume contact with the Muslim Brotherhood is a pragmatic move that recognizes its popular appeal…
Al-Azhar’s declaration: A new leap into politics?
June 30, 2011
Al-Azhar’s declaration: A new leap into politics?
Al-Azhar’s recently declaration backing a democratic civil state has triggered questions over the political role that the world’s oldest and…
Remembering the forgotten martyrs of Arab al-Maadi
June 29, 2011
Remembering the forgotten martyrs of Arab al-Maadi
On the outskirts of Maadi neighborhood, where much of Cairo’s wealthy elite resides, lies a much poorer area called Arab…
Squalor, fear and desperation for tent city residents
June 28, 2011
Squalor, fear and desperation for tent city residents
Naglaa Mahdy sleeps in a tent with ten other women and their children. She wakes up and dusts herself off,…
Soft-drink giants ride wave of post-uprising optimism
June 27, 2011
Soft-drink giants ride wave of post-uprising optimism
Brightly colored billboards with cheerful messages have become fixtures of Cairo’s urban landscape, feet from the squares and streets where…
Whistleblower interrogated for spilling secrets of carcinogenic wheat
June 27, 2011
Whistleblower interrogated for spilling secrets of carcinogenic wheat
An Egyptian government audit officer, who recently claimed that his superiors had attempted to cover up incidents of corruption, was…
Smuggled, stolen and homemade, guns flood Egypt’s streets
June 27, 2011
Smuggled, stolen and homemade, guns flood Egypt’s streets
A new conversation has been taking place around Egypt for the past five months, one that rarely came up before.…
Egypt’s first freedom of information law in the works
June 26, 2011
Egypt’s first freedom of information law in the works
For the first time in its modern legal history and after various failed attempts, Egypt might see its first freedom…
Q&A with Tom Malinowski: Rights abuses in Egypt and Libya
June 26, 2011
Q&A with Tom Malinowski: Rights abuses in Egypt and Libya
In May, Al-Masry Al-Youm met with Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch Washington director, who visited Egypt last month briefly after spending some…
Pro-Mubarak protesters demand charges against him be dropped
June 25, 2011
Pro-Mubarak protesters demand charges against him be dropped
There is a tiny part of post-revolution Cairo that will remain forever Mubarak, and that is Mostafa Mahmoud Square. It…