Conflicting decisions in the last few weeks have raised questions from critics as to whether President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government is actually keen on implementing real political and economic reform.…
In Azhar Park on June 15, Christine Auclair, coordinator of the World Urban Campaign, invited a group of journalists, urban researchers, activists, government players and others to brainstorm about a…
A list of 165 detainees pardoned by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday for the holy month of Ramadan did not include detainees in major protest-related cases that activists and…
The possibility of yet another Cabinet reshuffle has been the leading story in Egyptian newspapers and daily talk shows in recent weeks, after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s administration started voicing increasingly…
More than 200 members of the press gathered at the Journalists Syndicate in downtown Cairo on Wednesday, chanting for the “32 detained journalists and hundreds dismissed from their job” as…
“We were there for him when he needed us,” says Helaly Said al-Anwar, recalling his military service under Gamal Abdel Nasser. An army scout, Anwar served two years in Yemen…
On April 14, most of Egypt’s satellite channels went down after two electricity grids feeding Cairo's Media Production City were bombed. Hours later, a group calling itself Revolutionary Punishment claimed…
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is no stranger to flattery. The lead up to his election was characterized by memorable catch phrases, such as, “Don’t you know you are the light…
At least 163 people have been forcibly disappeared and illegally detained by security forces in the past two months alone, according to…
A worker from a military-owned company in Arish, Sinai, told Mada Masr on Sunday that his colleague was shot by military personnel, contrary to reports in local media that he…
Following a day of violent clashes with security forces on January 28, 2011 — otherwise dubbed as the “Friday of Anger” — protestors battled over space in Downtown Cairo, as…
Aisha* was sleeping when her apartment was raided. She and three other friends had just moved in when the police came by asking if they had weapons or anything illegal. They said…
Egypt, with its densely populated coasts and low-lying agricultural areas is one of the countries most vulnerable to rising sea levels. According to World Bank data, a one meter rise…
As official meetings proceeded on Tuesday between Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and members of the German government on the president’s three-day visit, German opposition parties express their dismay at their government…
Security officials at the Cairo Airport banned Mohamed Lotfy, the executive director of the Egyptian Delegation for Rights and Freedoms, from travelling to Germany on Tuesday, but provided no clear…
Controversial TV host Islam al-Beheiry deserves to be in prison, as his ideas endangered “faith security,” Al-Azhar Dean of Sciences Abdel Moneim Fouad told the privately owned newspaper Youm7 on…
Fifteen lawyers based in Cairo and Alexandria announced a sit-in on Saturday at a Lawyers Syndicate building in Alexandria's Raml Station neighbourhood,…
Dalia Abdel Hameed, head of the gender program at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), talks to Mada Masr about battling for women's rights and gender-based issues.
A decision by Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat to refer journalists to court on charges of publishing false information was deemed by other journalists as an intervention into their practice and…
Egypt’s newly established initiative to boycott Israel kickstarted its activities with a campaign demanding telecoms provider Mobinil put pressure on its multinational owner, Orange, to end investments in Israel. …
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