Year: 2012

In Focus

The Daily News Egypt talks journalism

The Daily News Egypt staff reflects their personal experiences in journalism

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Non-Islamists are threatening to withdraw from the assembly tasked with drafting the new constitution
EgyptPolitics

Non-Islamist uprising within Constituent Assembly

Seculars and liberals will completely withdraw if their demands are not met…

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein

O’ Army, save us?

This is where we are probably heading and it frightens the hell…

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
Dr. H.A. Hellyer
Opinion

The nurseries: a dutiful father goes AWOL for Arabic

When my wife and I were choosing nurseries in Cairo, we wanted,…

H.A. Hellyer
H.A. Hellyer

From the other side

Marxist-Leninist!

Gamal Eid
Gamal Eid
Protesters take to the streets of downtown Cairo on 12 November 2012 in rejection of the International Monetary Fund loan. (PHOTO BU JOEL GULHANE)
EgyptPolitics

Rights centre demands transparency on IMF loan

Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights files lawsuit

Hend Kortam
Hend Kortam
British Foreign Secretary William Hague arrives for the ministerial meeting of the Arab League and European Union in the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
EgyptPolitics

Britain snubs Brahimi’s plan at the Arab League

President of the Syrian opposition requests weapons

Joel Gulhane
Joel Gulhane
Hatim Salah, Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, right, signs one of the EU-Egypt task force agreements. (PHOTO BY MOHAMED OMAR)
Business

EU-Egypt pact signed

Investors still remain timid of the high risk they would be assuming…

Mohamed El-Bahrawi
Mohamed El-Bahrawi
Egyptian tycoon Naguib Sawiris wants to invest 3-4 billion euros in Telecom Italia. (AFP / PHOTO)
Business

Sawiris to buy shares in Telecom Italia

The deal may put Sawiris in conflict with Telecom Italia’s controlling shareholders

Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah
Members of the Association for the Welfare for Dwarves attend a meeting in Alexandria. (Photo courtesy of the Association for the Welfare for Dwarves)
EgyptPolitics

Arab world’s first dwarf rights NGO to be established in Alexandria

Protection of people with disabilities still severely lacking

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez