Opinion

The events of 5 December mark an important shift in Egyptian politics in light of the violence that pitted Muslim…

Less than two weeks ago, President Mohamed Morsy issued a decree that made his decisions immune from judicial oversight. The…

  Now that it has ended with a truce, maybe it’s time to understand the logic behind Israel’s Operation Pillar…

To decide whether to vote yes or no to the new constitution, we have to go back in time to…

When former President Hosni Mubarak introduced amendments to the 1971 Constitution in 2007, the always contested issue of the status…

Twenty-eight years ago the world awoke to the aftermath of one of the most notorious industrial disasters begun in the…

The past two weeks, since Morsy announced his Hitler powers, have been the bleakest since the revolution began.

Back in March 2011, I bought a T-shirt in Tahrir Square with a bold Arabic “no” written in black on the…

 In early October, after the forced migration of several Christian families from Rafah, Al-Masry al-Youm published a cartoon, the first…

 To be a liberal is to be democratic. That’s a no-brainer.In Egypt, as in American foreign policy, however, the situation…