Opinion

Egypt is marked by a profound contradiction which deserves some comment: Healthy rates of economic growth exist alongside a widespread…

Back in 2004, a year after the US invasion of Iraq, accounts and photographs of murder, rape and torture at…

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks (an international group that publishes anonymously submitted secret government documents), would probably be an…

Ali Eddin Helal, media secretary for the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), affirmed three days ago that the NDP would…

Newspapers reported on Monday that most of the seats in Cairo University’s student union election were won without contest as…

There’s an unusually virulent strand of political surrealism surging through Egypt at the moment. I stress “unusually” because there is…

The Muslim Brotherhood has the most problematic political discourse in Egypt. They insist on upholding a religious slogan, “Islam is…

The late journalist Magdi Mehanna used to say that Gamal Mubarak has made himself into an object of guesswork. His…

Electoral deals are agreements made between political parties prior to an election with the aim of winning more votes or…

The US Senate proposed a bill over a week ago that calls on the United States to pressure the Egyptian…