#due process violations
Stories of prison visits, ongoing hardship
Families of Egyptian prisoners recount brief, irregular visits, arbitrary banning of goods
Hadeer El-Mahdawy
9 دقيقة قراءة
أرشيف
التقارير
3,712 تقرير منشور حتى الآن.
#Antiquities Ministry
The art disasters that led to a ban on unauthorized work on public statues
Jano Charbel looks back at a few of the kitsch, offensive and bizarre public statues that have graced Egypt's governorates of late.
Jano Charbel
3 دقيقة قراءة
#Dentists Syndicate
Graduate students decry skyrocketing tuition fees for postgraduate studies
Hikes in the tuition costs of postgraduate degrees hit Egypt’s medical students particularly hard as these degrees have become requirements for their careers
Mai Shams El-Din
6 دقيقة قراءة
#detainee and prisoner deaths
Family of dead medical student accuse prosecution of attempting to quietly close case
Family and friends of Ahmed Medhat, a medical student who died this week in Egypt, are certain that he was killed by the police after being arrested from his home.…
Maddison Sawle
8 دقيقة قراءة
#blasphemy
Coptic teenagers accused of insulting religion seek asylum in Switzerland
Four Coptic teenagers awaiting appeal on charges of insulting Islam arrived in Switzerland last Thursday, after months of living in self-imposed exile in Turkey.
Luiz Sanchez
4 دقيقة قراءة
#Gudran Association for Art and Development
On El Cabina’s exit from the Alexandrian art scene: A new beginning for Gudran
Visiting El Cabina for the first time in 2012 marked the beginning of my love affair with Alexandria. Completely transformed from an abandoned building that once housed the air-conditioning unit…
Rowan El Shimi
11 دقيقة قراءة
#IPAF
IPAF-nominated Numedia, or Buck and his oversexed does
On Tareq Bakari's IPAF-nominated novel Numedia, "about a heterosexual Moroccan man with legendary sex powers who is mercilessly chased by a blue-eyed, blonde French writer, who, in her final infatuation,…
Ismail Fayed
8 دقيقة قراءة
#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Visual art season starts with Roznama
We are still lucky on the film front this week with the ongoing أسبوع أفلام آسيد - ACID Film week, and screenings at Zawya and Darb 1718. Lebanese singer Tania…
3 دقيقة قراءة
#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s cinematic gems: The Train
After two train conductors die in a fight on the way from Cairo to Aswan, the passengers gradually all break down
Amany Ali Shawky
4 دقيقة قراءة
#Syrian refugees
The Syrian Kitchen: A refugee food business based on quality not empathy
From the start, the vision behind Zeit Zatoun — a Syrian kitchen where seven refugee women work — was that it would be a business not a charity.
Pesha Magid
8 دقيقة قراءة
#church building
After 150-year wait, Parliament passes church construction law in 3 days
Parliament has passed a law regulating the construction and restoration of churches in just three days, after months of back-and-forth. Holding an Egyptian flag, parliamentary Speaker Ali Abdel Aal announced…
Mohamed Hamama
6 دقيقة قراءة
#value-added tax
The ‘what ifs’ of Egypt’s new VAT law
In theory a VAT would streamline tax collection and bring in more revenue, but lax enforcement and inadequate punishments for evading it could do more harm than good
Luiz Sanchez
7 دقيقة قراءة
#military-civilian collaboration
The Armed Forces’ men in Sinai
Mada Masr details the story of armed civilians’ collaboration with the Egyptian military in fighting Province of Sinai
Mada Masr
12 دقيقة قراءة
#Egypt-Greece relations
Is there really an Egyptian Greek island?
Media reports cite a former Endowments Ministry official claiming that Egypt owns a Greek island and that Greece has stopped paying the $1 million annual rent.
Mai Shams El-Din
5 دقيقة قراءة
#Zawya
Lessons in manoeuvring: Zawya heads a scheme to decentralize film culture in Egypt
A recent workshop at Cimatheque saw Zawya's crew and other film people discuss film distribution, censorship, legalities, funding, marketing and what should happen next for a thriving alternative film culture…
Yasmine Zohdi
16 دقيقة قراءة
#أقباط
This is how they saw the moulid — photo story
The Virgin Mary moulid in Assiut, as seen by 7 photographers
Mada Masr
6 دقيقة قراءة
#film reviews
Three takes on Like a Matchstick, a comic critique of Egyptian cinema’s ‘golden age’
Nostalgia is not evoked through the usual sentiments of melancholy and loss, but through critique and laughter.
Amany Ali Shawky و Lina Attalah +1
6 دقيقة قراءة
#Ahmed Seif al-Islam
Blog: The revolution of Ahmed Seif al-Islam
Two years on from the death of Ahmed Seif, a pioneering figure in Egypt's human rights movement, we remember his legacy.
Ahmed Hadid
4 دقيقة قراءة
#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Films, films films!
This week is dedicated to cinema lovers. Zawya is still screening the cinematic release of Hussein al-Imam’s Like a Matchstick and the call for submissions is still open for Medrar’s Cairo…
Mada Masr
4 دقيقة قراءة
#sexual harassment
Untold stories of sexual harassment in Egypt’s newsrooms
Such stories are typical among Egyptian female journalists, but are often spoken about within closed circles, as many women fear the damage speaking out may do to their careers.
Mai Shams El-Din
10 دقيقة قراءة