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
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
Three civilians facing military trials today
Military trials on the rise with 38 civilians facing military courts since November
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…
US Middle East peace envoy in Cairo
David Hale meets with Egyptian officials ahead of Quartet meeting on Thursday
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…
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…
Government calls off Matrouh search and rescue
After two days of searching and bad weather, the hope of finding missing fishermen has dwindled