Features/Interviews
Opposition hopes ElBaradei can bring change
February 22, 2010
Opposition hopes ElBaradei can bring change
Last Friday's rally at Cairo International Airport welcoming Mohamed ElBaradei was a visible expression of how activists and opposition figures…
English language press: ElBaradei returns, Dubai assassins
February 22, 2010
English language press: ElBaradei returns, Dubai assassins
Egypt made headlines throughout the Western English language press this week when Mohamed ElBaradei returned to Cairo on Friday. The…
Report: Violence against women in Egypt ‘alarming’
February 18, 2010
Report: Violence against women in Egypt ‘alarming’
The Land Center for Human Rights, a Cairo-based non-governmental organization devoted to women's, children's and farmers' rights, published a report…
Arrest campaign throws MB on defensive
February 18, 2010
Arrest campaign throws MB on defensive
In a written address to the Muslim nation on Thursday, freshly-elected Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie talked about…
Manshiyet Nasser: Between rock-slides and relocation
February 17, 2010
Manshiyet Nasser: Between rock-slides and relocation
Residents of Manshiyet Nasser, whose homes lie in the shadow of Cairo's Moqattam district, are facing a double threat--the danger…
Villagers protest Upper Egypt land seizures
February 17, 2010
Villagers protest Upper Egypt land seizures
Protests erupted on the steps of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate's downtown Cairo headquarters this evening after a group of Upper…
ElBaradei cometh: Return of the native son
February 17, 2010
ElBaradei cometh: Return of the native son
Decades from now, 19 February, 2010 may just be looked back upon as B-Day. Mothers will tell their children of…
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…