Fueling crisis
During last year’s presidential race, Mohamed Morsi pledged to shore up Egypt's faltering economy. But on the first anniversary of his ascension to power this June 30, the country finds itself…
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During last year’s presidential race, Mohamed Morsi pledged to shore up Egypt's faltering economy. But on the first anniversary of his ascension to power this June 30, the country finds itself…
From the presidential palace’s window, the view ahead of the planned June 30 protests is different. The protests, set to challenge the one-year rule of President Mohamed Morsi, alongside the…
While Egyptians are preoccupied with frequent power cuts, biting fuel shortages and a boiling political climate amid stifling heat waves, a new fiscal year has crept in just as protests…
A few meters away from raging battles between protesters and security forces on Qasr al-Nil Bridge were dozens of children playing Chutes and Ladders. At the neighboring Mugamma administrative building in Tahrir Square, a play area…
A 40-year-old woman walks into Al-Shohadaa metro station in the heart of Cairo, lugging a heavy pack of documents bearing the Tamarod (Rebel) campaign logo. As she enters the crowded…
In the management world, it is often said that the best service is provided well, fast and cheap, but that only two of those are possible at once. Nowhere is…
Koshary and sweat mix with diligence and optimism in the downtown headquarters of the Tamarod campaign, a tiny and stuffy flat with few windows. The office had been firebombed the…
“We still need to protest, but we also urgently need members of the cultural sector to begin to actively engaging in Egyptian cultural policy, in politics.”
“Our government has decided to solve the energy crisis with coal,” says Ahmed al-Droubi, the Egypt-based Greenpeace Arab World representative. Unable to ensure a sufficient supply of electricity to its…
It is hot and sunny and the air heavy and thick; a veil of smoke envelops the tables and school kids roam around like desperate kittens waiting for a snack.…
"I have a problem with the idea that contemporary art is a Western product and when it comes to Egypt it won't have any audience."
On a Friday afternoon, taxi driver Ashraf Abbas drinks tea over the hood of his car with his colleagues. In the absence of customers, they decided to stop wasting precious…