Features/Interviews

Countless women actively participated in the 25 January revolution, which seemed to signal a major shift in women’s role in…

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad trained to be an ophthalmologist because, he said, eye surgery involves few emergencies and not much…

Egypt has not had a workers' party since the 1940s, but, like many other things the revolution has revived, these…

On 28 January, tanks and military personnel were deployed across Egypt after massive protests swept away the police apparatus of…

Since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in February, many Coptic Christians have begun making plans to leave the country, fearing…

When the headquarters of the National Democratic Party (NDP) were set ablaze in the early days of anti-government protests in…

In front of an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds at Cairo’s Journalists' Syndicate Wednesday night, Ahmed Mahir, the founder of the…

On Friday, 25 March, Egyptian-American engineer Mohamed Radwan, 32, was arrested and detained in Damascus by Syrian authorities while photographing…

Adherents of Sufism, a mystical sect of Islam that has long been popular in Egypt, now see their tolerant traditions…

As the Muslim Brotherhood begins its life as an official political player, it is attempting to revamp its image to…