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Religious reform: A community need faced by political detestation

Freedoms remain symbolic as fundamental equality issues prevail, says researcher

Amira El-Fekki

Religion, social unawareness, and freedoms of belief and speech

Can closed societies be receptive to reform or secularism?

Amira El-Fekki

Dire situation for refugees in Egypt

Syrians, Iraqis, Palestinians and Sudanese face difficulty in navigating residency procedures, unemployment,…

Sarah El-Sheikh

The realm of political detention: Thousands await trial while ministry denies their existence

Thousands were arrested in 2015 on terrorism charges, according to Ministry of…

Daily News Egypt

Funding-gap and poor practices render care in public hospitals precarious  

Thousands of health sector employees referred to investigation in 2015: Prosecution

Menan Khater

Major strikes in 2015

Out of the 1,117 strikes reported by Democracy Index's latest report, below…

Daily News Egypt

Terrorism 2.0: How IS developed new techniques to achieve its goals

Political and security analyst Alessandro Di Maio analyses the difference between Al-…

Ahmed Abbas

The social paradox of Al-Sisi’s 1.5m acres

Both projects have been inflected by a nationalist rhetoric, a rhetorical haunting…

Kareem Megahed

Workers in 2015: Physical and economic threats continue

Egypt's president and the government had to go face to face with…

Adham Youssef

Religious contempt law for persecution, not protection

Egypt has seen decades of crackdown on Coptic Christians, non-believers, and intellectuals,…

Amira El-Fekki