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Behind the lines

CAIRO: For most, life, with its continuous struggles, is hard enough as…

Aida Nassar
Aida Nassar

State targets opposition amid calls to extend emergency law, say activists

CAIRO: The state has recently upped the ante in its attempt to…

Daily Star Egypt Staff
Daily Star Egypt Staff

Calling with one voice

CAIRO: The Minister of Religious Endowments Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq announced at a…

Najla Moussa
Najla Moussa

Nour's top lawyer missing: wife

CAIRO: Jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour s top lawyer and a colleague…

Daily Star Egypt Staff
Daily Star Egypt Staff

Press Round-up

CAIRO: After the upper house agreed to President Hosni Mubarak's proposal to…

Pakinam Amer
Pakinam Amer

Look who's watching?

An explosion has already been heard in Iran. Not the nuclear kind…

Alaa Abdel-Ghani
Alaa Abdel-Ghani

Present and Tense

My wife calls me a mule. I call her Forty Acres. Together…

Nabil Shawkat
Nabil Shawkat

Woof

"I like pigs, Winston Churchill is supposed to have said on what…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt

Rights activists cry foul after arrest of protesters

CAIRO: Human rights activists condemned the arrest of at least 30 protesters…

Daily Star Egypt Staff
Daily Star Egypt Staff

Qatari woman imprisoned by family for marrying Egyptian

DOHA: Inside a luxurious compound, a Qatari woman has been made a…

Daily Star Egypt Staff
Daily Star Egypt Staff