Five years after a deadly bombing that took the lives of 23 people, the Two Saints Church in Alexandria was filled with Christian worshippers on Thursday night for the New Year’s…
It’s been another year of fighting many woes at Mada. The obvious one aside – namely an unprecedented retreat in freedoms – it’s also been a fight with fatigue, boredom…
The date of Egypt’s parliament convening has now been set — the first time parliament will sit after three years — as well as the list of presidential appointments to…
In 2014, this was Andeel’s reflection on the state of the people in the wake of the military’s grip on power since the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood: When I…
In the midst of a string of arrests of activists, media and cultural figures, it’s gotten a little difficult to keep track of who is and is not currently detained…
We have seen the many faces of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi throughout the year, from absolute glee at the announcement of major national projects, to disappointment at institutions that don’t…
Having only assumed his duties as the Foreign Ministry spokesperson this August, Ahmed Abu Zeid did not waste any time taking off his gloves and lashing out at criticism of…
Egypt’s foreign policy and diplomacy throughout 2015 arguably fell in some sort of grey zone, with not one relationship that can be described as full-on friendship (not even Saudi Arabia)…
A group of revolutionary student movements vowed in a press conference Monday to continue supporting the Egyptian Student Union (ESU) elected in nationwide elections and then promptly dissolved by…
The course of the Blue Nile has been re-diverted to run through Ethiopia’s newly built dam for the first time, the Ethiopian government announced on Saturday. Ethiopia had diverted the…
Since the January 25 revolution, talk about conspiracies aiming at state collapse and Egypt’s general demise have become commonplace. The revolution or uprising was itself, of course, seen as a…
The newly-elected parliament, which is due to convene soon, is still in a state of flux, with various parties and groups forming political alliances in a process characterized more by…
Reham Saeed is one of those figures in the Egyptian media sphere who baffles, amazes and horrifies in equal measure. She revealed a bit of her zany self in 2014 when…
Following the Cabinet meeting held in Sharm el-Sheikh last month to discuss ways to boost tourism to the city, ministers underwent rigorous security measures as they departed from Sharm el-Sheikh…
A gag order imposed on reporting about Egypt’s nuclear plant project earlier this week is not based on a judicial source as required by law, a senior official at the…
A number of scholars and researchers from around the world have issued a statement calling on Egyptian authorities to release journalist and researcher Ismail Alexandrani. Security forces detained Alexandrani in…
“I wanted to live through the military coup. Now, after all I’ve seen, I think I must have been mad.” Thus Youssef —not his real name — began our interview.…
Following months of denied visitations, families were this week allowed to visit their relatives held in Egypt’s notorious maximum security Aqrab Prison, most of them for up to five minutes.…
“The generals are upset because we have a student union president who speaks for detainees and is affiliated with January 25. There is a battle against the students and universities…
Friday prayers in mosques across Luxor ended uneventfully on December 4. They weren't followed by street demonstrations demanding retribution for Talaat Shabeeb, who was tortured to death a few days earlier…
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