Family Secrets, directed by Hany Fawzy, is the first Egyptian film to deal with homosexuality directly. However, despite having no explicitly sexual content, the country’s censors have objected to 13 scenes and have asked for them to be deleted. The … read more
Egypt’s Interior Ministry says it will no longer allow visits to the country’s ousted president, now held in a remote desert prison. Ministry spokesman Col. Gamal Mokhtar said Friday that Mohammed Morsi had delivered four messages “inciting violence” against the … read more
In an effort to remove old taxis from the streets, Egypt’s interim President Adly Mansour signed a decree on Tuesday to forbid the renewal of licenses for taxis that are over 20 years old. The law, which also applies to … read more
Nearly five months after the uprising-cum-coup that ousted President Mohamed Morsy, Egypt is mostly calm. That might seem surprising, especially given the reemergence of hundreds-strong protests following the military-backed government’s passage of a law restricting demonstrations last week, and the … read more
A leading figure of the National Alliance for the Defense of Legitimacy said they will call for a boycott of the planned constitutional referendum and for a new revolution on the vote day. “We will not participate in the referendum … read more
Popular Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef said on Wednesday that he’ll take the military and the government at their word that they were not behind the decision to take his weekly television program off the air, but he said it still … read more
During his year as president, Egypt’s Mohammed Morsi cultivated ties with Islamic radicals, making them a key support for his rule by pardoning dozens of jailed militants, restraining the military from an all-out offensive against jihadis in Sinai and giving … read more
A prominent Egyptian blogger said on Tuesday he had been arrested, the latest political activist to be detained in a widening crackdown on dissent by the army-backed government. Egyptian authorities have extended a crackdown on Islamists, in which they have … read more
The Thomson-Reuters Foundation recently published its third annual poll on women’s rights in the Arab world. The poll is a “perception survey” of 336 gender experts from 22 Arab countries. It ranked Egypt as the worst Arab country for women’s … read more
Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index has revealed that regimes in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia have not improved their standing, indicating these countries have not taken adequate measures to combat corruption, achieve independence and integrity of judiciary or legislate laws … read more