In Egypt, there is no local government
«Egypt is considered one of the most centralized countries in the world, ranking 114 out of 158 countries on decentralization and the closeness of government to…»
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«Egypt is considered one of the most centralized countries in the world, ranking 114 out of 158 countries on decentralization and the closeness of government to…»
«Why would Lebanese media be better than the corrupt and sectarian system which it inhabits and perpetuates, and why should one be supportive of any of…»
«Editor’s note: On March 23, the Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the hearing of the case against the Belady Foundation for the Care of Street Children to…»
«As an Egyptian citizen working in the European Parliament, I think last week's resolution on Egypt and the case of the killing of Italian researcher Giulio…»
«There is no problem in a policeman, as a citizen, having an opinion about the appropriate length of a man’s hair. But it becomes catastrophic when…»
«Ten years ago, Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi was a foreign student at the US Army War College. In writing a short report entitled “Democracy in…»
«Hassan al-Turabi, who died this month, was the leading figure of Sudan's modern Islamist movement. Before Turabi reshaped it, the movement was a small group of…»
«Three years ago, Hassan al-Turabi (1932-2016) — Sudan's foremost theologian, who is known affectionately by his followers and ironically by his enemies as the sheikh —…»
«Neither the female protesters in Egypt and Yemen's Tahrir Squares, nor those in Tunisia’s Qasba or Libya’s Shaqra Square, nor even the women of the Syrian city of…»
«Women today are fighting for their financial independence, and for their right to live outside their family homes.»
«The question is why a country like Egypt, with very few naval or aerial threats, is seeking such extraordinary military hardware.»
«“Sexuality is about health, pleasure, bodies, violence, rights, identity and empowerment ... about families, domestic space, intimate relations and public engagements …” Definitions of sexuality often…»
«How do you feel when you learn that the author of the novel you’ve been reading and enjoying for the past few days has just been…»
«Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the first African to head the United Nations (UN), died in Cairo, where he was born, at the age of 93. A broken leg…»
«People received news of the passing of the most prominent Egyptian — and possibly Arab — journalist, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, with a lot of commotion. Above all…»
«Growing up in America in the 1980s through the noughties made most of my generation pretty hard to offend. Not because America itself is offensive, though…»
«The saga of young student Esraa al-Taweel, who disappeared for two weeks last year before security officers admitted to detaining her, is the best-known example of what…»
«In May 2014, on a flight home from a business trip, I picked up a newspaper from a flight attendant and came across news of a…»
«I did not know Giulio Regeni, but I could have. The earnest, affable face staring out of his photographs is reminiscent of any number of the…»
«There is no doubt that the recent murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni poses a real threat to political and economic ties between Egypt and Italy.…»