Regarding the kidnapped Soldiers
The latest political crisis in Egypt revolves around seven Egyptian soldiers who were allegedly kidnapped by Jihadist groups in the Sinai Peninsula last Thursday. Their kidnappers are demanding a Sinai-based militant detained for almost two read the rest…
Read More →The Event
The Event changed everything. Nobody knows the exact date when the event started. The chaos that took place once it started, and its insane aftermath, made any kind of accurate documentation impossible, but we know read the rest…
Read More →The Price
The return of Naguib Sawiris to Egypt, along with the entire Sawiris Family, has raised some eyebrows on both sides of the political divide in Egypt, especially given that the Presidency sent a special read the rest…
Read More →Your mission, if you choose to accept it…
The moment I heard of the closure of Egypt Independent I felt solemn and gloomy. I knew that this was always a possibility, especially with their financial troubles, but this has been the case for read the rest…
Read More →Short takes
1 Egyptian revolutionaries suffer from the silly habit of always getting sucked into fighting in side-battles, and the latest batch of laws coming out of the Shura Council are a prime example. Whether the read the rest…
Read More →Bad for business
A few days ago I told a Tunisian friend who just arrived some stories about the Egyptian political scene. She listened to me intently while suppressing her laughter, and after I was finished her only read the rest…
Read More →Morsy’s Christian Problem
The country was watching, half in horror and the other half probably in glee, as the police of the Islamist state of Egypt actively joined a mob in their attack on the cathedral
Read More →Strange Days…
Think tankers and policy researchers working on Egypt in the States do not know what to make of all of this
Read More →Myths
Egypt is a country where people operate on myths instead of facts, which is one of the primary reasons why we never seem to get on with the country. Between the 7,000 years of civilisation read the rest…
Read More →Renaissance
On Saturday, seven members of the Islamic group ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ in Suez, Egypt, decided to promote virtue by trying to whip a woman on the street due to her “un-Islamic” read the rest…
Read More →Islam’s enemy!
It goes without saying that the Egyptian crisis is now beyond repair. None of the parties involved, including the military, have the power to resolve the conflict that the country seems destined to engage in. read the rest…
Read More →The Civilian Products of Military Factories
Last Thursday the news websites greeted us with a picture of the US Ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, celebrating the decision of the US department of agriculture to allow the importation of Egyptian strawberries to read the rest…
Read More →Awesomely Egyptian
It’s our one and only message to a world that has always tried to crush us: “You won’t break us. Do your worst”.
Read More →The Horror
For the past week I have been avoiding, ducking and evading the black hole of negativity that has seemingly sucked everyone in. It wasn’t an easy task especially because for everyone I spoke to, the read the rest…
Read More →The cautionary tale of NSFMommy and MBDaddy
Good morning Children, Today we are going to tell the story of the unfortunately very Egyptian marriage of NSFMommy and MBDaddy. Like most Egyptian marriage stories, it’s a very stupid family drama where there are read the rest…
Read More →Blockheads
The genius of turning the Black Bloc into the new enemy is how perfect they are for it
Read More →The great male crisis
There has been a global war on women but in spite of it women are succeeding
Read More →On the parliamentary elections
There is a huge amount of confusion regarding the lists and candidates, aided by the lack of clarity in the positions of the parties involved.
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