Features/Interviews
Watchdog: Middle East oppresses journalists
February 17, 2010
Watchdog: Middle East oppresses journalists
Egypt is among the world's worst oppressors of internet journalists, charged a report released yesterday by the Committee to Protect…
Local pork industry on last haunches
February 16, 2010
Local pork industry on last haunches
Alexandria--In a few weeks, Monaco, the largest manufacturer of processed pork products in Egypt, will run out of its stock…
Butane battles
February 15, 2010
Butane battles
For more than a month, it has been difficult and expensive for Egyptians to obtain butane gas cylinders, a household…
Anti-border wall campaigns launched in Cairo, Beirut
February 14, 2010
Anti-border wall campaigns launched in Cairo, Beirut
Coordinated opposition to the underground wall currently being built in the Egyptian border town of Rafah along Egypt's 14-kilometer border…
Swine Flu: Was it ever really a threat?
February 13, 2010
Swine Flu: Was it ever really a threat?
Later this month, Egyptian schoolchildren will return from their mid-year break. It will be the first time this year that…
2009 most lethal year for journalists in a decade
February 11, 2010
2009 most lethal year for journalists in a decade
A total of 110 journalists were killed because of their work in 2009, making last year the most lethal in…
The ongoing battle for access to knowledge
February 9, 2010
The ongoing battle for access to knowledge
Copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets: these are only some of the legal means of obtaining exclusive rights to creations of…
Unresolved: Stolen rights, insecurity in Coptic Abu Fana
February 8, 2010
Unresolved: Stolen rights, insecurity in Coptic Abu Fana
Qena -- Almost two years since the vicious attacks on Abu Fana, lying in the Western desert on the outskirts…
Davos: Not much for the Middle East
February 8, 2010
Davos: Not much for the Middle East
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif had an excellent excuse to miss the Davos forum this year: he just got married. But…
New Burullus harbor unsafe, say fishermen
February 8, 2010
New Burullus harbor unsafe, say fishermen
Mohamed el-Balati boards the boat on which he works as a fisherman in Burullus. He scans the Burullus strait, his…