Anger as Afghan MPs halt women’s bill debate
after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teaching
In Search of Oil and Sand reminds viewers of a forgotten era
A documentary shows the lives of some members of Egyptian Royalty before the 1952 coup d’état.
Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries
New exhibition claims to be inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Ten Cities Project breathes new life into Cairo electronic music scene
Three bands jam together in Cairo and produced some earth-shattering electronic beats.
Egypt: Re-thinking political parties
There are specific signs that differentiate political revolutions from social ones. Both types and patterns of revolution do entail a series of changes and transformations although on different levels. Social…
Egypt: Too big to bail!
An interesting assumption is continuously being adopted by many of Egypt’s intelligentsia as well as political analysts: “Egypt is too big to fail!” Several people have weaved their own theories…
Muslim Brotherhood decay: the logic of imperative Laxity
By Hesham Shafick On 10 May 2011, I interviewed Khairat El-Shater, the Muslim Brotherhood’s third man at the time, and asked about the rumors around Mohamed Habib’s, the MB’s second…
Egyptian foreign debt increases by $8bn
Internal debts hit an alarming EGP 1.4tn, equivalent to about $200bn.
