In pro-Sisi Mansoura, embittered youth avoid the polls
The day before voting began in the presidential election, the road from Cairo to Mansoura was littered with signs for presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Almost every kiosk along the…
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The day before voting began in the presidential election, the road from Cairo to Mansoura was littered with signs for presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Almost every kiosk along the…
Voting was still open on the first day of the presidential election, and television presenters were already panicking over the noticeably low turnout. On Monday evening, talk show hosts turned…
Driving up to presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign headquarters through the picturesque streets of the upscale fifth settlement neighborhood, we were met by a massive gate of barbed wire…
Ahmed Khalaf was startled when he got a phone call from this reporter, because he expected news of arrest of fellow students on election day rather than an interview. “On…
Although he has not proposed any specific labor reforms, presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seems to be something of a working-class hero amongst laborers in the Delta city of Mahalla. Posters of Field Marshal Sisi can be…
In the Daher neighborhood, east of Cairo, signs and billboards in support of presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are abundant, just like everywhere else in the city. But not everyone…
With Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi poised to win the presidential election, a minority of young voters are still opting to vote for his rival Hamdeen Sabbahi — or boycott…
In the 2012 presidential elections, a little less than 5 million people voted for left-leaning journalist and long-time opposition figure Hamdeen Sabbahi. As he comes back to the polls in 2014 in…
Come and hear the story of the yellow mountain full of ice, beckons the Wonder Box. Rolled from the back of a pickup truck onto Cairo’s streets and assembled and…
Waiting for a chartered jet at Cairo Airport earlier this month, brothers Mostafa and Mahmoud Bakry schmoozed with a 50-odd crowd of journalists, entertainers, businessmen and campaigners for presidential candidate…
Electoral campaign posters for former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are abundant in every Egyptian town and city. Unprecedented in its size and scale, this electoral campaign is arguably the…
A group of young men in white t-shirts lock hands to form a cordon, keeping dozens of cheering and ululating women away from presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he…
“I would like to join the Faculty of Computer and Science Information in Assiut,” Abdallah Assem, the lanky teenager told me when I asked about his post-secondary plans. The two…
A girl wakes up one day to find herself 15 years older, living with her sister's husband
Exploring the murky world of Egypt's propagandist pop music.
A look at satellite images of Giza’s Al-Lisht and Al-Hibeh sites from 2010 to the present is shocking, to say the least. In three years, illegal excavators have created a…
A woman is heckled as she argues that the media should be a platform for the youth to express themselves at a conference organized by a popular campaign supporting presidential…
Hossam Bahgat investigates: How Egyptians unknowingly paid for the ruling family's lavish lifestyle
Choukri Fishere may simply be, like the protagonist of Bab al-Khoroug, a typical Egyptian citizen who wants stability, hates the Brotherhood and thinks leftists are too idealistic to succeed.
Following an initial public offering (IPO) that was over-subscribed by 18.5 times, Arabian Cement saw its stock price jump from LE9 per share to LE10.39 per share on Sunday, its…