In Focus: The victims of Mahalla
CAIRO: A week ago, 22 of 49 defendants were sentenced to three to five years in prison on charges related to the April 6 strike which took place in Delta…
Sports and Suzanne Tamim are Egypt's 2008 searches
Google has released a list of the top 10 fastest rising terms typed into the search engine for 2008, and Egypt's first was reserved for football.Google announced its annual Zeitgeist…
The power of Facebook takes new shape in 2008
Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life . Sign up, it's free and anyone can join, reads the homepage of the popular social networking website.…
Sliding human rights record mitigated by a few breakthroughs
This year's April 6 Mahalla protests spawned human rights violations on a mass scale: between 500 and 600 people were arrested at random and detained in Mahalla's two police stations.…
The year of accidents, disasters and fires
The last weeks of the year 2008 were witness to two of the worst road accidents, closing off a year marred by disasters and fires that claimed tens of lives…
Egypt backslides on press freedom with detentions and publishing bans
Media censorship, intimidation and prosecution of journalists continued to be business as usual in 2008, the year in which the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) placed Egypt seven…
2008: A year for victorious women
In Egypt, 2008 can easily be labeled the woman s year. In addition to numerous new legislations championing women's rights, 2008 saw the first female marriage registrar, the first female…
Verdict in schoolboy Islam Badr's case expected Thursday
ALEXANDRIA: Islam Badr's family were left frustrated Monday after the Alexandria Court postponed its verdict in the case of 23-year-old mathematics teacher Haitham Nabil Abdel Hamid, accused of kicking the…
Health ministry tackles a handful of controversies as year wraps up
During the last two months of 2008, hospitals around Egypt were paid surprise visits by the Ministry of Health as part of its crackdown on medical violations.Incidents of medical negligence,…