Adam describes himself as a failed physicist and day laborer journalist. He spent his formative years between Wardan, a town in rural Giza whose only claim to fame is a fake Pharonic temple built by one of its Pharoah-obsessed sons, and Imbaba, an area of Cairo whose notoriety masks great swatches of its unremarkable suburbaness. After earning a degree in…
“It is a Salafi dawah, a Sunni tariqa, a Sufi reality, a political establishment, a sports group, a scientific and cultural association, a corporation and a social concept.” These were…
Perhaps the people happiest with humankind's failure to turn the sci-fi legend of time machines into reality are Egypt's policemen. Three years ago, and more specifically by the dawn of…
Following several steps to tighten its grip on Egypt’s mosques, the Ministry of Endowments has unexpectedly decided to shift the affiliation of Al-Azhar mosque, placing it under the auspices of…
The December 24 bomb attack in Mansoura didn’t just leave the security directorate building there in rubble. The following day, the government’s decision to brand the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist…
It may be difficult for people to understand the uncertainty principle, part of quantum mechanics theory in the science of physics. This principle assumes that an electron can be seen,…
We reached the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in at 7 am on Wednesday, about an hour after the police and Armed Forces launched their coordinated attack to disperse the six-week long demonstration. South of Nasr Street, tens…
«On Friday November 25, 2011, one week after the Mohamed Mahmoud events, I was standing near one of the entrances to the Sadat metro station, its tunnels spreading…»
Ansar Beit al-Maqdes, a Sinai-based militant group, declared responsibility on Tuesday for the killing of Mohamed Mabrouk, the State Security officer killed…
A controversial request by Al-Azhar University’s president for riot police to enter the campus to contain protests on Wednesday raised questions once again around the institution’s independence and…
Controversy continues to loom over the status of the military in the constitution. As the committee of 50 tasked with amending the…
“I arrived this morning as we couldn't come to the morgue last night because of the curfew. We learned from the list…
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagy said his daughter was killed on Wednesday in clashes between protesters and security forces as they attempted…
A statement released by Egypt's Armed Forces midday Monday spurred a flurry of divergent reactions from supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi,…
