Features/Interviews
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…
Electrical engineers deny any intention to darken Egypt
June 25, 2011
Electrical engineers deny any intention to darken Egypt
Like in many other sectors in Egypt, employees in state-run electrical power plants are demanding the improvement of their working…
Sewage-fed vegetable plots pose health risk in Egypt
June 24, 2011
Sewage-fed vegetable plots pose health risk in Egypt
Faced with a shortage of water for irrigation, Ahmed Osman, a farmer in his late thirties, opted to divert local…
Do “leaderless” revolts contain seeds of own failure?
June 24, 2011
Do “leaderless” revolts contain seeds of own failure?
LONDON-- From the streets of Cairo and Madrid to online forums and social media sites, "leaderless" protests are on the…
Revolutionary coalitions multiply, fragment and disagree on the way ahead
June 24, 2011
Revolutionary coalitions multiply, fragment and disagree on the way ahead
Having accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of the Coalition to Protect the Revolution, mathematics professor Mina Abdel Malek…