Objection to the potential selling of endowments has primarily come from Al-Azhar.
The 1977 bread riots erupted less than 24 hours after the announcement of a bread price increase
1967: the moment that fractured the new nationalism; politically formative for generations to follow
"The documents are damning. The state doesn’t want you to find out the scandalous way it did its business."
Amidst little fanfare, Egypt commemorated its National Farmers’ Day on Tuesday, marking 62 years since populist agrarian reforms were introduced by the…
On Sunday, presidential hopeful and former military commander Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with a number of leftist figures. Those meeting with Sisi,…
At a press conference in late March, Culture Minister Saber Arab told journalists about his vision to make cultural programming more inclusive.…
«Will the last traces of Nasser’s image disappear from Bahrain as they have in neighboring states?»
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«When a ruler depends solely on the power of oppression and completely impedes rational thinking, he no longer concerns himself with ensuring that there is an…»
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