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Year Ender: Critics question regime’s response to mounting labor unrest

Year Ender: Critics question regime’s response to mounting labor unrest

This year has been marked by numerous incidents of labor unrest, raising questions as to how Egypt’s ruling regime plans…
Year Ender: Muslim Brotherhood to keep a low profile amid fears of repression and internal splits

Year Ender: Muslim Brotherhood to keep a low profile amid fears of repression and internal splits

After failing to secure a single seat in recent parliamentary elections that critics say were subject to pervasive violations, analysts…
Year Ender: Egypt and Israel, a souring relationship?

Year Ender: Egypt and Israel, a souring relationship?

During his December visit to Cairo, US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell said that his country was pressing Palestinians and…
Year Ender: Egypt braces for looming break-up of southern neighbor

Year Ender: Egypt braces for looming break-up of southern neighbor

Despite its oft-stated support for a united Sudan, Cairo has vowed to respect the outcome of a referendum on the…
Doctors protest plan to demolish Mideast’s largest psychiatric hospital

Doctors protest plan to demolish Mideast’s largest psychiatric hospital

 A proposal to replace Abbasiya Psychiatric Hospital, the largest in the Middle East, with a new exhibition and convention center has provoked widespread…
INTERVIEW: ElBaradei on quiet revolution, reform tactics, and religion

INTERVIEW: ElBaradei on quiet revolution, reform tactics, and religion

Mohamed ElBaradei has chosen an interesting time to re-enter the Egyptian political arena. After his calls for a parliamentary election…
Outage takes out Skype, recovery taking hours

Outage takes out Skype, recovery taking hours

Internet phone and video service Skype went down in a global service outage on Wednesday, underscoring a weakness of the…
Press ceremony delivers awards to Egyptian photojournalists

Press ceremony delivers awards to Egyptian photojournalists

Egypt's most distinguished photojournalists and were commemorated on Tuesday night in a photo-gallery at the fourth annual press photo awards…
Interview with Tagammu Party chairman

Interview with Tagammu Party chairman

Refaat al-Said, chairman of the Tagammu Party, has said his leftist organization is currently revisiting its traditional stance of rejecting…
Shadow parliament doomed to fail, expert says

Shadow parliament doomed to fail, expert says

Frustrated with the recent parliamentary electoral results, a number of former opposition parliamentarians announced last week the formation of a…
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