Islamists rally for constitution

Marches planned in support of Morsy and the constitutional referendum

Rana Allam

Opposition marches to Presidential Palace

Concrete walls and barbed wire set up

Rana Allam

The mysteries of Qarun Lake

The many myths, even if they are fictitious, definitely add extra glamour to Qarun lake

Fady Salah

A wall of remembrance

Photo exhibition at the Presidential Palace

Adel Heine

Empowerment online

Initiatives aim to raise political awareness, encourage citizen journalism

Fady Salah

New arrivals on the shelves

New books this month

Adel Heine

Cairo’s Downtown coffeehouses

Downtown Cairo is Egypt’s heart of cultural and political dynamism and coffeehouses have long been a contributing force in that momentum. Some of them belong to the past but still…

Fady Salah

A very bad joke

In reality, here in Egypt, the independence of Al Mahalla is only a punch line.

Rana Allam

In the lap of the gods

By Philip Whitfield The hounds have the fox in their sights. Unleashed, the dogged gird for affray.  Morsy is forced to flee his palatial, besieged lair. Across town the Muslim…

Daily News Egypt

Imagine

Imagine sitting at a friend’s house, watching the president address the nation after a week long crisis, with his supporters just the night before opening fire on civilian protesters in…

Mahmoud Salem