The United States has designated a Gaza Strip-based group responsible for attacks on Israel and Egypt as a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department said Thursday that the “Army of Islam” has fired numerous rockets on Israel and kidnapped two … read more
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby, who has been named as the Arab League’s next secretary general, reiterated a commitment to his country’s peace treaty with Israel yesterday but said Egypt reserved the right to maintain an independent foreign policy. Speaking … read more
When President Obama appeared on the big-screen TVs at a Pizza Hut overlooking the Nile, the upscale dinnertime crowd shoved aside their slices to hear what he had to say about their revolution and subsequent developments in the Mideast. By … read more
Long lines of cars stretched outside petrol stations nationwide, as the State-subsidised diesel is the main fuel by which transport vehicles are operated. The crisis started with a black market when farmers could not find supplies at local petrol stations … read more
Once they were the main opposition to dictators from Egypt to Tunisia to Syria. Banned and exiled they could position themselves as opponents of leaders propped up by Western paymasters, carrying the scars of imprisonment and torture like badges of … read more
A military court in Cairo this week sentenced to death a 17-year-old boy, highlighting a disturbing trend in post-Mubarak Egypt: trying civilians in military courts. The minor, whose death sentence is illegal under Egyptian law, is just one of as … read more
There seem to be plenty of good reasons to avoid Egypt’s battered real estate sector, yet some investors are tiptoeing back into stocks seen as less exposed to legal probes of questionable state land sales. The industry, a motor of … read more
Egypt’s government must reveal the truth about attacks on demonstrators during an uprising against President Hosni Mubarak, compensate the victims and bring their attackers to justice, Amnesty International said on Thursday. In a long report on state repression during the … read more
In Egypt, political parties are frantically trying to organize, register and make themselves known before elections scheduled for this fall. In addition to the short timeline, people are increasingly worried about lawlessness and sectarian strife that could lead ordinary Egyptians … read more
By now we are all used to movies, books and TV specials featuring the stories we first heard about on the news. Often the subject matter depicted in such projects is sensationalized and dramatized to the point of exasperation. News … read more