The elusive cease-fire
Egypt is continuing efforts to save its cease-fire proposal between Israel and Gaza and end hostilities that have claimed more than 600 Palestinian lives since July 8, despite its failure…
Nadine is a British Palestinian journalist that has been living and working in Egypt since July 2011. She has worked for Bloomberg, the English edition of Al-Masry Al-Youm (also known as Egypt Independent), and as a freelance journalist writes for The National newspaper in the UAE, and the London Review of Books blog. She has also been published by the…
Egypt is continuing efforts to save its cease-fire proposal between Israel and Gaza and end hostilities that have claimed more than 600 Palestinian lives since July 8, despite its failure…
Sara’s* 11-year-old daughter still won’t wear the clothes or bag she had on that night, on June 8, when her and her mother were grabbed and assaulted by mobs of young…
On the front door of Mahienour al-Massry’s family home in Alexandria, a single yellow sticker hangs. The bold black letters on top read, in Arabic, “No to Military Trials for…
Abandoned houses destroyed by shellfire, a mosque turned to rubble and burned huts lay among sand dunes, citrus farms and olive groves in the villages of Mehdeyya and Muqataa, a few kilometers…
In the nearly three months since Nadia Hammadeh fled war-torn Damascus to Cairo, her children were refused enrollment in a public school, her husband was arrested from their home by…
In this Q&A , Amr Darrag, secretary of foreign relations with the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, speaks of a group persisting despite a wave of crackdowns and arrests,…
Twelve* men accused of participating in mob sexual assaults in Cairo’s Tahrir Square stood in court on Wednesday in the first session…
Three Al Jazeera English journalists received verdicts of seven to 10 years in jail today on charges of “aiding a terrorist organization”…