Busted flush
By: Philip Whitfield You’d be livid if your boss blew your wages gambling. Consider how often the Muslim Brotherhood risks your life, how close Cairo courts catastrophe. I’ll wager this. Isn’t the answer to Egypt’s read the rest…
Read More →Op-ed Review: History repeats itself and wheat
One columnist recalls an incident in Egyptian history that resembles what happened and is still happening now. The other one is exploring the wheat issue and how Egypt can attain self-sufficiency. In the presence of read the rest…
Read More →Egypt and Saudi plug into joint power line project
Agreement expected in the coming week
Read More →Egyptian pound slumps to seven against US dollar
Egypt’s currency continues to devalue despite attempts by Central Bank to slow the decline with foreign currency auctions
Read More →Egypt: Re-thinking political parties
There are specific signs that differentiate political revolutions from social ones. Both types and patterns of revolution do entail a series of changes and transformations although on different levels. Social revolutions change property relations and read the rest…
Read More →Muslim Brotherhood decay: the logic of imperative Laxity
By Hesham Shafick On 10 May 2011, I interviewed Khairat El-Shater, the Muslim Brotherhood’s third man at the time, and asked about the rumors around Mohamed Habib’s, the MB’s second man at the time, expected read the rest…
Read More →Egyptian foreign debt increases by $8bn
Internal debts hit an alarming EGP 1.4tn, equivalent to about $200bn.
Read More →Survey results highlight negative outlook
Figures show dissatisfaction with democratic transition and overwhelming concern for better economic conditions
Read More →Abbas: Reconciliation with Hamas and elections are on the agenda
The head of the PLO stresses peaceful methods as the only way for Palestinians to get their state
Read More →Convoy heads to Rafah to commemorate Nakba
‘Crowds on the Borders’ convoy hold a press conference in solidarity with the Palestinians
Read More →Qandil meets with Libyan prime minister
The two prime ministers discuss increasing Egyptian investment in Libya and improving border security
Read More →Nationally, regionally and internationally, government’s time is running out
The Egyptian government recently assembled a new cabinet in order to deliver on the promises of the “Renaissance Project” (mashru’ al-nahda). It comes not a moment too soon, as the national, regional and international scenes read the rest…
Read More →Talking Box By Ziad Akl
When you walk down the streets of Cairo, you will see all kinds and ages of Egyptians complaining about the Muslim Brotherhood and how they’re governing (probably including yourself). Next time you see or speak read the rest…
Read More →What does Egypt’s political map look like today?
Several months before the elections for Egypt’s House of Representatives, scheduled to take place this coming October, many Egyptians are asking: what is the plan of those political parties participating in these elections? Some ask read the rest…
Read More →Presidential spokesperson denies decline in freedoms
Ehab Fahmy comments on detentions, Tamarod campaign and Egypt’s foreign relations
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 →Howeidy, the Brotherhood, and between them Al-Tayeb
By: Ayman Abd Al-Hafiz “When the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar is invited to a country that is not capable of existing in harmony with Egypt, the country to which Al-Azhar traces its heritage as an institution, read the rest…
Read More →Penalty spot
By Philip Whitfield Why’s Morsi picking up tips from Jose Mourinho? They’re both hoping for a second chance: Mourinho to Chelsea, Morsi to the palace after Ramadan. Both need to turn things round: Mourinho to read the rest…
Read More →Op-ed review: Ikhwan-oriented media and Islamists during the revolution
One columnist addresses the authorities’ control of media apparatus, and the other discusses how people deny the role of Islamists in the revolution. Yasser Abdel Aziz ‘Ikhwanization’ of national media Al-Masry Al-Youm Columnist Yasser Abdel read the rest…
Read More →Talking Box By Ziad Akl
On my way home last Friday I saw 5 boys, couldn’t be more than 14. They were running between cars in one of Zamalek’s busy streets trying to catch a look at women driving in read the rest…
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