Shot ex-congresswoman takes on US gun lobby

The NRA said Tuesday it would send a representative to the White House on Thursday "to hear what they have to say," following an invitation last week from the Obama…

Liliana Mihaila

Report released into death of alleged torture victim

Blow to head likely cause of death of Sa’ad Said, who died in police custody, drug overdose excluded

Liliana Mihaila

Censored China paper to publish ‘as normal’

Public challenges to the authorities on press freedom are rare in China and the affair is seen as a test for the new Communist Party leadership

Liliana Mihaila

48 Iranians freed by Syria rebels in prisoner swap

Syrian rebels on Wednesday freed 48 Iranians they had been holding for months in a swap for 2,130 prisoners

Sara Abou Bakr

Three civilians facing military trials today

Military trials on the rise with 38 civilians facing military courts since November

Sara Abou Bakr

To Dr ElBaradei,

Allow me to relay a different point of view. Secularists in Egypt are not very smart. Well, not all of them, but their leaders are,  living in their bubble of…

Sara Abou Bakr

US Middle East peace envoy in Cairo

David Hale meets with Egyptian officials ahead of Quartet meeting on Thursday

Joel Gulhane

Freedom of expression and the religious state

In 2008, while veteran journalist and writer Ibrahim Eissa was receiving the Jibran Twini Lebanese Pioneer Press Award from the World Association of Newspapers in conjunction with the Lebanese newspaper…

Sara Abou Bakr

Have Islamic bonds paved the way for the establishment of a religious state?

Egypt has gradually been trying to come out from under the cloak of theocracy for many years now, the first attempt beginning after the start of the French occupation of…

Sara Abou Bakr