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YEAREND SPECIAL: New market regulator tops year's economic reforms
CAIRO: One of the major changes in Egypt's economy this year came…
YEAREND SPECIAL: Prison sentences mar freedom of expression; significant progress in right of belief
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 2005 promise that custodial sentences for journalists who…
YEAREND SPECIAL: MP scandals overshadow 2008/2009 PA session laws
Unlike previous years, the 2008/2009 People's Assembly kept making headlines even after…
YEAREND SPECIAL: A year of economic stimulus and interest rate cuts
Egypt s measures to deal with the global economic crisis in 2009…
YEAREND SPECIAL: Hot court cases closed in 2009, others suspended
Court cases that caught public attention over the past year have been…
YEAREND SPECIAL: New gem rises from the rubble
On the road of Muiz li-Din Illah, that famed thoroughfare of Fatimid…
YEAREND SPECIAL: 2009: Culture in decline
The feared perils of the economic recession hit the Egyptian culture scene…
YEAREND SPECIAL: Swine flu pandemic takes its toll on academic year
After more than three months of summer vacation and the postponement of…
YEAREND SPECIAL: Damascus: A little bit Cairo, a lot of Shaami
As a foreigner numbed by Cairo's constant pace, clatter and change, I…
YEAREND SPECIAL: Faint traces, low hopes for local music
There are two problems with trends: they are easily substituted and their…