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A woman carried her son as she pleaded with the doctor in charge of Nasser Institute Hospital’s blood bank for few bags of blood to save his life after he…
The possibility of yet another Cabinet reshuffle has been the leading story in Egyptian newspapers and daily talk shows in recent weeks, after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s administration started voicing increasingly…
More than 200 members of the press gathered at the Journalists Syndicate in downtown Cairo on Wednesday, chanting for the “32 detained journalists and hundreds dismissed from their job” as…
Three very different, important albums.
“We were there for him when he needed us,” says Helaly Said al-Anwar, recalling his military service under Gamal Abdel Nasser. An army scout, Anwar served two years in Yemen…
On April 14, most of Egypt’s satellite channels went down after two electricity grids feeding Cairo's Media Production City were bombed. Hours later, a group calling itself Revolutionary Punishment claimed…
Fanon had deep contempt for the postcolonial native bourgeoisie as well as colonial masters: “The elite are ambiguous vis-à-vis violence. They are violent in their words and reformist in their…
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is no stranger to flattery. The lead up to his election was characterized by memorable catch phrases, such as, “Don’t you know you are the light…
"Who knows when the war is going to end?" says handsome gay painter Raouf to Ahmed, a youth fresh from Sharqiya.
A worker from a military-owned company in Arish, Sinai, told Mada Masr on Sunday that his colleague was shot by military personnel, contrary to reports in local media that he…
Following a day of violent clashes with security forces on January 28, 2011 — otherwise dubbed as the “Friday of Anger” — protestors battled over space in Downtown Cairo, as…
This week seems like an appropriate time to step back and look at Egypt's state culture. It’s been three months since Abdel Wahed al-Nabawi took office, the seventh culture minister…
Aisha* was sleeping when her apartment was raided. She and three other friends had just moved in when the police came by asking if they had weapons or anything illegal. They said…
Egypt, with its densely populated coasts and low-lying agricultural areas is one of the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levels. According to World Bank data, a one meter rise…
As official meetings proceeded on Tuesday between Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and members of the German government on the president’s three-day visit, German opposition parties express their dismay at their government…
Security officials at the Cairo Airport banned Mohamed Lotfy, the executive director of the Egyptian Delegation for Rights and Freedoms, from travelling to Germany on Tuesday, but provided no clear…
Controversial TV host Islam al-Beheiry deserves to be in prison, as his ideas endangered “faith security,” Al-Azhar Dean of Sciences Abdel Moneim Fouad told the privately owned newspaper Youm7 on…
On World No Tobacco Day 2015, Mada Masr releases an infograph that breaks down the smoking demographics of the country, and the health and monetary costs of keeping up this…
Here are four potentially exciting events happening this week, as recommended by Mada's culture desk. CairoCats - Sunday Jared McCormack has long run a visual blog about cats in Cairo, and downtown…
“We have given up our feminine clothes for the military uniform,” read two large banners held up by a group of 15 young women outside Cairo University. “Listen to me:…
