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Perhaps it won’t be long before deposed President Mohamed Morsi is likened to former President Mohamed Naguib, both remembered as short-lived, first post-revolution presidents. Naguib was the first president after…
Amr Darrag is a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood who most recently served as minister of planning and international cooperation in former Prime Minister Hesham Qandil’s Cabinet. He formerly…
When Hazem al-Beblawi’s nomination for prime minister was announced this week, it may be remembered as another mark of the Nour Party’s rising power in the context of the Egyptian…
Three years, two overthrown presidents and a lot of “million-man marches” in between. But between the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013…
Sure, the national anthem’s great and everything — but for an entire generation of Egyptians there’s another song that more accurately captures that first realization of nationalistic awareness. At 11-minutes…
Since the events of June 30, divisive fault lines have emerged within the country’s trade unions and professional syndicates, with leading members of these associations taking sides with the new…
Egypt’s energy subsidies have been an issue of contention for years, but increasingly so in recent months as the ailing economy struggles to recover and the state fights to tighten…
SINGAPORE – One of the things that first greeted me on the Southeast Asian island in mid-May was a serendipitously familiar image. At a street booth, amid maps, guides, and…
While the stock market reacted positively to the issuing of the July 8 Constitutional Declaration, and some rejoiced at this definitive step leading the country away from deposed President Mohamed…
For at least four months, Egypt’s legal framework will be the constitutional declaration issued by Interim President Adly Mansour on July 8. The 33-article declaration has been designed to provide…
After the crescent moon was finally spotted, the holy month of Ramadan began on Wednesday. While many plan for Ramadan to be about spirituality and reflection, often food is the…
With the rapid unfolding of political developments, sporadic clashes on the streets that are expected to continue, and an interim president tasking a new prime minister with putting together a…
Mohamed Soleiman is a resident of Masoura, a neighborhood in the Sinai border town Rafah. Last Saturday at dawn, he was awoken by the sounds of shooting next to his…
It’s not clear whether Mahmoud Sobhy was the first person killed on Friday. What is clear is that he was one of at least 30 who died in protests that…
The Queue is evocative of George Orwell’s dystopias, of Kafkaesque surrealism, and of the dark satire of Sonallah Ibrahim’s The Committee, but could perhaps best be described as dystopic realism.
The question of what to label the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi by a military intervention following massive protests looms in newsrooms. This including Mada Masr’s. While coup and revolution…
As a power battle simmers to the brim between the military and the presidency, exchanging messages in the final hours before the deadline set by the Armed Forces, anesthesiologist Abeer…
Millions of Egyptians are continuing to take to the streets. They are calling on President Mohamed Morsi to resign and to hold early presidential elections. At the same time many…
Shortly after the outbreak of Turkey’s Gezi Park protests, Egyptian public forums were flooded with a variety of expressions that drew parallels between the respective situations in each of the…
We didn't spend a long time savoring what it means to be unemployed. After our dramatic layoffs prompted by the sudden scaling down of Egypt Independent, a paper we worked…
