#international media
Permits, penalties and paranoia
Foreign media under Rashwan's State Information Service
Heba Afify
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Heba Afify
Heba Afify, known in journalistic circles as H, is a news reporter who traveled between working for local and international newspapers. She covers a variety of topics from high to street politics and finds interest in both hanging out on the frontlines of clashes and in deciphering the complexities of electoral laws. She has a degree in journalism, but for…
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#2018 presidential elections
How Egyptians’ attitude toward voting has changed over 7 years
As polls opened on March 26, the atmosphere was a far cry from festive scenes of previous elections
Heba Afify و Osman El Sharnoubi
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#sexual harassment
Looking past forced smiles
A recent case of sexual violence in a progressive political party raises questions of consent and justice among Egypt's civil society
Heba Afify
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#January 25 2018
Magdy’s square
As his world shrunk to the size of a house, Madgy’s memories of the 70s student movement and the January 25 revolution became both his comforting companion and a source of distress.
Heba Afify
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#Copt-Muslim relations
Sectarian borders
In villages in Minya, Christians and Muslims are confined to separate districts, a condition that feeds into sectarian dynamics
Heba Afify
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#Warraq
On Warraq Island, popular democracy defies secret state plans
The state’s strategy regarding Warraq has seen several stages: violence, negotiation, and legal persecution
Heba Afify
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Heba Afify
Blog: The case against social obligations
«As Ramadan approaches each year, I begin to get nervous about a phenomenon that is as characteristic to the holy month as soap-watching marathons have become:…»
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Heba Afify
30 hours of train trauma
«As I hop on the Wednesday night Upper Egypt train from Cairo, I hear a newbie ask when we will get to Aswan — my destination…»
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When home is lost
«In 2012, I met 67-year-old Ahmed Abdallah, a Nubian man who was among those displaced in 1963 to allow for the construction of the Aswan High…»
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Reporting Egypt: From passion to purpose
«Throughout the last year, my main challenge as a journalist has been to get myself to take the news seriously. But at times, when the absurdities…»
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In the courtroom: Plenty of drama and little else
« A long day in court begins... Case 1 As the defendants are led into the cage in the newly constructed makeshift courtroom at the police…»
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Egypt’s hunger games
«While watching the sequel to the “Hunger Games” last Friday, I was stunned to find a striking resemblance between a fictional regime — presented as almost…»
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#American University in Cairo
AUC attempts to placate student anger, but still bans the niqab
Though news circulated AUC would retract its niqab ban, the university appears to be forging ahead
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#Arish
Unprecedented civil action in Arish after security forces announce killing of 10 local youths
The Interior Ministry claims those killed were militants involved in recent attacks, however local citizens claim they were innocent
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#2015 parliamentary elections
Law passed to protect parliament from dissolution
The State Council approved a law on Tuesday stipulating that the upcoming parliament is immune to dissolution in the case that the…
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#Arish
Sinai: States of fear
Arish — Like many of his neighbors, Sherif was watching the Ahly and Zamalek game on the wintery evening of Thursday, January 29, when…
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#arrest powers
Power of arrest: Who has it, what can they do with it?
A ministerial decree on Tuesday to grant border guards the power of arrest is the latest in a series of bolstering measures…
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#Egypt-Palestine relations
In Rafah, opening the crossing is not enough
Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah crossing on Saturday, allowing four injured Palestinians passage into Egypt and receiving 261 Egyptians fleeing the war…
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