The year the FM spokesperson stepped into the ring
Having only assumed his duties as the Foreign Ministry spokesperson this August, Ahmed Abu Zeid did not waste any time taking off his gloves and lashing out at criticism of…
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Having only assumed his duties as the Foreign Ministry spokesperson this August, Ahmed Abu Zeid did not waste any time taking off his gloves and lashing out at criticism of…
Thousands of workers are protesting in different locations across Egypt in a spate of industrial actions that continues to pick up steam. Around 3,000 workers started a strike at Egypt’s largest aluminum…
Egypt’s foreign policy and diplomacy throughout 2015 arguably fell in some sort of grey zone, with not one relationship that can be described as full-on friendship (not even Saudi Arabia)…
A group of revolutionary student movements vowed in a press conference Monday to continue supporting the Egyptian Student Union (ESU) elected in nationwide elections and then promptly dissolved by…
An essential culture alphabet, from molokheya through Iman Mersal to comix.
The course of the Blue Nile has been re-diverted to run through Ethiopia’s newly built dam for the first time, the Ethiopian government announced on Saturday. Ethiopia had diverted the…
Since the January 25 revolution, talk about conspiracies aiming at state collapse and Egypt’s general demise have become commonplace. The revolution or uprising was itself, of course, seen as a…
The newly-elected parliament, which is due to convene soon, is still in a state of flux, with various parties and groups forming political alliances in a process characterized more by…
33 must-hear songs from the MENA region.
Reham Saeed is one of those figures in the Egyptian media sphere who baffles, amazes and horrifies in equal measure. She revealed a bit of her zany self in 2014 when…
The openness and flexibility of the festival is appealing, just like other spaces free from ministry influence and clear institutional visions.
Egypt has seen some good economic news in 2015: overall economic growth measured at 4.2 percent for the fiscal year ending in June 2015, the strongest performance in five years.…
Following the Cabinet meeting held in Sharm el-Sheikh last month to discuss ways to boost tourism to the city, ministers underwent rigorous security measures as they departed from Sharm el-Sheikh…
How long do we coddle for? When do we decide that the audience is ready to see something a little less direct?
A gag order imposed on reporting about Egypt’s nuclear plant project earlier this week is not based on a judicial source as required by law, a senior official at the…
A number of scholars and researchers from around the world have issued a statement calling on Egyptian authorities to release journalist and researcher Ismail Alexandrani. Security forces detained Alexandrani in…
The two exhibitions are well worth a visit, says Nour El Safoury.
On December 16, Saudi Arabia committed to increasing its investments in Egypt to around US$8 billion (30 billion Saudi riyals). Little additional information has been released, leaving experts to speculate on…
“I wanted to live through the military coup. Now, after all I’ve seen, I think I must have been mad.” Thus Youssef —not his real name — began our interview.…
Following months of denied visitations, families were this week allowed to visit their relatives held in Egypt’s notorious maximum security Aqrab Prison, most of them for up to five minutes.…