Last week, a group of Coptic activists protested inside the Abbaseyya Cathedral against the Church’s representatives in the 50-member committee tasked with drafting Egypt’s new constitution. Protesters called on two Coptic Church…
In the office of the Egypt’s Knights party, using titles is more than a matter of courtesy. The party was founded in August by retired military officers, and even as…
Since the 2011 revolution, October 6 has served as a day to remind the people of the military institution’s prowess, particularly given the generals’ tumultuous relation with politics after they…
Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim is one of Egypt's most innovative and significant writers. In works such as “That Smell” (1966), “The Committee” (1981), “Zaat” (1992) and “Sharaf” (1997), he combines originality…
In 2007, renowned trade unionist and opposition figure Kamal Abu Eita led thousands of workers on strikes and sit-ins outside the Cabinet. One uprising and an election later, more mass…
In a turbulent political climate, the Ministry of Endowments is once again at the heart of a standoff, facing accusations of serving certain agendas as political Islam struggles to survive.…
Days after security forces stormed the Minya village of Delga and arrested dozens of residents following a month of sectarian violence, two women stand at their doorstep watching police forces…
In the boom times over the past few years, sections of Gaza’s southern borderline resembled a busy shipping terminal, with trucks hauling loads of smuggled cargo from the vast network…
An ambiguous architectural form has been erected in the center of Rabea al-Adaweya Square, which housed a sit-in held by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi for six weeks before…
Following the formation of the current government headed by Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi, hopes were high for a brief moment as many thought that revolutionary elements within the Cabinet might lead the…
Dust and desert. Dust and road. Dust and checkpoints. Turn left. Dust and tombs. Dust and dust. Dust and farms. Dust and shacks. You’re in. Dust and trucks. Dust and…
A foreign journalist in Cairo, whose work appears in several prestigious publications was cornered near her house by a man in plain clothes who held her against the wall and…
Haytham Mohamadeen is not happy. He has caught — or rather, been given — a cold. “It was the district attorney who did it!” he proclaims, nasally. The labor…
The halls of the Shura Council are host to the work of the committee tasked with amending the 2012 Constitution, initially drafted in 2012 by a predominantly Islamist committee, the…
About a month after his 27th birthday, Ibrahim Mostafa al-Ezzab responded to a call. For weeks the Egyptian Ambulance Organization had been training for the planned dispersal of major Muslim…
In this Q&A , Amr Darrag, secretary of foreign relations with the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, speaks of a group persisting despite a wave of crackdowns and arrests,…
Grief and anger echoed in the streets leading to the graveyard as hundreds marched in the funeral procession for Asmaa al-Beltagy in Cairo — just a few meters away from…
BENI SUEF — Childish handwriting. Ripped out sinks in the bathroom. The smell of burning. “There is no God but Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet” scrawled on the walls.…
With the country at a political impasse in the aftermath of the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi last month, a standoff also looms over Egypt’s university campuses as student…
Security crackdowns against two labor strikes — at the Suez Steel Company and Scimitar Petroleum Company — and a potential one at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla,…
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