Mai graduated from the American University in Cairo with a degree in journalism. She worked mostly for local English-language news outlets but has also been writing in Arabic, particularly when it comes to her home city, Aswan, Upper Egypt. She covers a variety of issues, but is drawn to the student movement, campus politics, human rights journalism among other things.
Amid the conflict between militants and security forces, the Western Desert has emerged as a third front
Students on Egypt’s public university campuses are now subject to new dress codes that prohibit a range of fashion choices, from ripped jeans, baggy or tight fitting pants, “revealing” clothes…
Security forces arrested 150 Ahly Football Club fans (Ultras Ahlawy) from Borg al-Arab stadium in Alexandria on Saturday, the most recent incident in a pattern of detaining members of Egypt’s…
Amid celebration in Tunisia over securing women’s rights, Al-Azhar strikes a different chord
The absence of Christian players at the professional level can be traced to discrimination that begins young
Four years after being a key member in the military-led alliance to end the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Azhar’s ongoing tensions with Egypt’s executive authority rise to the surface
Zagazig University suspended Professor Maher al-Maghraby for three months and referred him to a disciplinary committee on Sunday for 'insulting Islam'
On the six-point, three-year strategy announced Monday by the Social Solidarity Ministry.
The British Government has issued the first intergovernmental condemnation of Egypt's new NGO law, calling it a 'step backwards.'
“The economic conditions are very difficult. People are desperate for sales.”
"They fear culture," said an artist who frequents the center.
The Minister of Higher Education has demanded that private universities to ban research which insults “brotherly or friendly countries.”
