Features/Interviews
Awakening the past: Villagers forced to relocate dead loved ones
May 15, 2010
Awakening the past: Villagers forced to relocate dead loved ones
Akhmim village, Sohag-- Two women, clad in black, and a young girl are kneeling over a pile of burning paper…
Critics don’t buy ‘limited’ state of emergency
May 13, 2010
Critics don’t buy ‘limited’ state of emergency
The Egyptian government has passed a so-called “limited version” of the unpopular Emergency Law. But critics see the move as…
The People’s Democratic Movement: A holistic vision for change
May 13, 2010
The People’s Democratic Movement: A holistic vision for change
The Emergency Law, which has given the Egyptian government sweeping powers to detain citizens for the last three decades, has…
Online vs. off: The future of Egypt’s print media
May 12, 2010
Online vs. off: The future of Egypt’s print media
In the face of increasing varieties of alternative media channels, printed newspapers are likely to remain a primary source of…
“If I owned downtown Cairo…”
May 12, 2010
“If I owned downtown Cairo…”
Downtown: it boasts some of Cairo’s best-kept architecture, alongside some of it most battered buildings; some of the classiest establishments,…
Imagining Downtown differently: The Ismaelia consortium’s urban regeneration project
May 12, 2010
Imagining Downtown differently: The Ismaelia consortium’s urban regeneration project
After hearing rumors about “the company that is buying out Downtown Cairo” and questions about the fate of the area,…
Harmonizing dissonance: Restoration and renewal in Downtown Cairo
May 8, 2010
Harmonizing dissonance: Restoration and renewal in Downtown Cairo
Al-Masry Al-Youm speaks to Soheir Hawas, the head of the Studies Administration at the National Organization for Urban Harmony, about…
Bahai’s seek end to second-class citizenship
May 8, 2010
Bahai’s seek end to second-class citizenship
Dr. Raouf Hindi proudly holds up the national ID cards of his children Emad and Nancy. The 16-year-old twins are…
FGM: The Pharaonic rite that’s a hard habit to break
May 5, 2010
FGM: The Pharaonic rite that’s a hard habit to break
Aswan--In a nation where UNICEF estimates 96 percent of all married women have undergone some form of female genital mutilation…
Whose martyr?
May 5, 2010
Whose martyr?
On occasions, coverage of Marwa El Sherbini's was influenced by players' agendas, Hossam el-Hamalawy writes. The gruesome murder of the…