Israel Radio reports at 2:00 on Sunday that an attempt to blow up the Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan has failed. According to the report, six men overpowered a guard at a facility west of El Arish, … read more
Driving through post-revolution Cairo at night is eerie. The normally busy streets are deserted, most of the city’s squares and roads are blocked by military checkpoints, and dark clad figures slip in and out of the shadows. Breaking the curfew … read more
In the gritty gusts of a sandstorm, men in turbans and women in veils stood uncomplaining for hours outside a ramshackle kiosk, lined up for their daily loaves of “life.” Political change may be remaking Egypt, but “we trust in … read more
When Egypt’s government recently dissolved its much feared State Security Investigations agency (SSI), the news was greeted with widespread relief by most Egyptians. However, that relief has been short lived, replaced by growing concern that many of the SSI’s 100,000 … read more
Tourists are staying away from Egypt, two months after the start of a popular revolution that ousted long-time President Hosni Mubarak, dealing another blow to a nation already staggered by inefficiency, corruption and poverty. Protesters compared Mubarak to the ancient … read more
Egypt’s Prime Minister Essam Sharaf vowed on Saturday to press a fight against corruption, responding to public pressure to speed up investigations into alleged graft by allies of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. He also defended a draft law banning strikes, … read more
An Egyptian draft law that imposes prison sentences for some strike action violates international laws on freedom of assembly and must be scrapped, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday. Last week, Egypt’s military-backed government approved the draft law, which is … read more
Minister of Interior Mansour al-Essawy approved the exclusion of 23 high-ranking officials of the defunct State Security Investigative Services (SSIS) from service in the Ministry of Interior, and temporarily transferred 66 of the agency’s former leaders to security directorates and … read more
Egyptian economic experts expect the Egyptian pound to rebound this week from an anticipated strong performance of the stock market. The Egyptian currency, which has lost nearly 4 percent of its value against the American dollar and the single European … read more
A citizen-volunteer in the tattered plain clothes of the lower middle class is standing in the middle of a busy Alexandria intersection waving through traffic. Waiting at the cross street is a uniformed cop on a motorcycle. Welcome to the … read more