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The Impossible, Killing Them Softly, and Sinister

Fady Salah

Camels

The Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival attracts participants from around the Gulf region, but it is time for Egypt to hold its version

Fady Salah

The army and the current crisis

The crisis that broke with Morsy’s constitutional declaration on 22 November reconfigured the political scene in Egypt. The map of political forces has changed a lot in this past month.…

Fady Salah

Washington must think differently about “the region”

By Anthony Elghossain After decades of dormancy, the Levant is rising again. Syria’s war, Lebanon’s seasonal conflicts, and ongoing shifts in Iraq, Egypt and Turkey are restoring the Levant’s characteristic chaos…

Fady Salah

Final vote on constitution

A busy week separates the first phase and second phase of voting on the constitution, which took place on Saturday

Liliana Mihaila

Vice-president resigns

Mahmoud Mekky has submitted his resignation for the second time

Liliana Mihaila

Government guarantees two huge electricity projects

Electricity projects are expected to be funded by private sector investments via the build-operate-ownership system

Liliana Mihaila

Review: Columnists warn from growing polarisation

After voters had queued up to cast their votes in the second stage of the controversial constitutional referendum on Saturday, many columnists condemned the growing polarization pervading Egyptian society today.…

Fady Salah

Egyptians stand in line for the referendum

Citizens set on casting their vote on the draft constitution

Liliana Mihaila

Voters, but few tourists, in the shadow of the pyramids

"The Muslim Brotherhood divided the country with the constitution"

Liliana Mihaila