Rights groups condemn crackdown on university professor
EIPR and AFTE say universities must do more to ensure faculty are safe to express thoughts and opinions
Read More →It’s the people, not the paper
In another country, at another time, writing about the Egypt Independent might be considered writing about the competition. After all, there are only a few English-language dailies in Egypt – and fewer that are not read the rest…
Read More →Street children: What they are not
We see them everywhere. They beg, they clean cars, they fight in the street. We see mothers with their babies and babies without their mothers. We see them in wheelchairs, sitting on the ground, leaning on our cars. Begging, touching us. Asking us to help them, for the love of God. We see them sleeping in the street, under a blanket, on a piece of cardboard. Sometimes, we mistake them for a pile of garbage. They are everywhere, all day, all night. We call them street children and most of us have never exchanged a single word with them.
Read More →Has the Muslim Brotherhood adopted Sectarianism?
I have attempted over the last several articles, to shed light on the fault lines of the various political and socio-economic divisions that exist within Egyptian society, in addition to the ideologies of those who read the rest…
Read More →The dead of the Salem Express
Out of all the dive sites in the Red Sea, the Salem Express wreck is known among divers as the most depressing. In 1991, the passenger ferry carrying pilgrims back from Saudi Arabia sunk 18 read the rest…
Read More →The Islamists’ Secret Weapon
As soon as our blessed revolution succeeded in realising its main demand and remove Mubarak from office, a streaming flood of Islamists ran through all veins of life in Egypt. Suddenly, ideology became identity, difference read the rest…
Read More →Foolishness
What started out as a little silly fun on the first day of the month has grown into a nationwide movement
Read More →How the prosecution has helped Bassem Youssef
By Nick Gjorvad It is rare to hear someone say that a court summons could be viewed in a positive light. However, Bassem Youssef’s recent interrogation by Egypt’s Prosecutor General’s Office may bring with it read the rest…
Read More →Editor’s letter: The real countdown to the brotherhood’s fall
A countdown to the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule started over two years ago, when they first turned against the revolution by siding with the military in manipulating the people for a yes vote read the rest…
Read More →Review: Columnists discuss Iranian tourists in Egypt, condemn Morsi’s big mistakes
Writers in several newspapers hve focused their commentaries on the recent group of Iranian tourists who visited the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor. A few writers criticised the negative reactions of the Salafis in Egypt, read the rest…
Read More →J’accuse
Was the issuing of an arrest warrant for Bassem Youssef meant to be an April Fools’ joke? If so, the joke ended up not being on the political satirist, but on the Egyptian authorities. Bassem read the rest…
Read More →Egypt lifts cooking gas prices, why it’s trivial
By Farah Halime How fitting that on April Fool’s Day, the Egyptian government attempts to deceive us all by claiming that its plans to raise the price of state-subsidised cooking gas for the first time in two read the rest…
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 →Reactionary not progressive: Egypt’s economic policy
By Farah Halime In a desperate move to save power, Egypt’s international airport will close most of its runways for four hours each day from early June, Reuters has reported. The airport is the latest casualty read the rest…
Read More →Targeting Activists in the Ikhawni state
On Friday night in Alexandria, well-known activist Mahienour Al-Masry, together with several others, was arrested after they staged a protest in support for those detained in the latest clashes. Al-Masry, for those who are not read the rest…
Read More →In a Maadi apartment
“Between the opposite ends of two ridiculous extremes, lies a true Egypt (without a true Egyptian)!”
Read More →Who Cut Egypt’s Cable?
By Daniel Nisman On 28 March, the Egyptian military stunned the tech world when it announced that it had apprehended three divers suspected of attempting to sever the SEA-ME-WE 4 fibre optic cable which services read the rest…
Read More →Egypt’s Islamist Groupies
There are few Egypt’s president can rely on more in these economic hard times than his band of Islamist brothers. Key financial supporters from Islamist-led governments have come through with cash injections at times of read the rest…
Read More →Where does the Army stand in the struggle between those with money and those with power?
As we are aware, Egypt’s political scene is divided along many fault-lines and fraught with a number of conflicting internal struggles, particularly those which have to do with the identity of our nation-state. These struggles read the rest…
Read More →Review: Op-eds warn from expected violence
Several writers have warned of more expanding violence in the coming period. Some commentaries advised President Mohamed Morsi to announce an initiative to combat violence and stop listening to the instructions of the Muslim Brotherhood. read the rest…
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