Opinion

The recent presidential decisions by President Mohamed Morsy to send Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi and former Chief of Staff Sami…

It is almost 10 years since the fall of the authoritarian regime of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party. What…

Why should the Cairo secular "jet set" vote for socialists? Because working class and poor voters have zero rational reason…

When the government made the people pin their hopes on the Abu Qir power station for uninterrupted electricity supply, it was…

It seems that the alarm bells are tolling to deaf ears. The socioeconomic situation in Egypt has become critical. Labor…

Last week, millions of Muslims worldwide celebrated one of Islam’s two annual celebrations, Eid al-Fitr, which follows their completion of…

In August, for the first time since the end of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Egypt launched aerial attacks…

Revolution began life as a simple word, describing the completion of a circuit. In those pre-Copernican times, lexicographers used the…

A government censorship agency banned a book. Two days later, it revoked the ban. Should we be thankful that the…

Anxiety is running high among Egypt’s liberals and secularists. President Mohamed Morsy and the Islamist constituency that elected him pose…