If  a news item is published on an Egyptian website with mistakes, the chances are the same errors will be replicated – word for word, misplaced comma for misplaced comma – on every other news site covering a local story in Egypt. Regional correspondents have responded to the pressures of delivering time-sensitive material to demanding […]

“I tried to save the life of my fourth newborn baby,” says Yasser Mahmoud. “She died soon after being admitted into the incubator ward.” Mahmoud’s three previous children were all born premature. Despite their father’s best efforts, they never reached an incubator and died soon after been born. Mahmood’s wife delivered his fourth child at […]

In January 2014, Muhammad Sharif, a law junior at Helwan University, along with a group of his colleagues took part in a demonstration at Mustapha Mahmud Square, marking the third anniversary of the revolution. When security started breaking up the demonstration, Sharif and his colleagues moved away. They stopped a taxi, but to their surprise […]

Last March, lawyer Tarek Mahmoud filed a lawsuit against head of Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Violence and Torture Victims Aida Saifeddawla; president of United Group Nagad Bura’ee; Tamer Ali, a lawyer at Hisham Mubarak Center; head of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information Gamal Eid; and founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal […]

“It felt less like getting engaged to be married and more like I was about to buy a refrigerator,” said 30-year-old Mohammad Abdel Rahman sarcastically to one of his friends about his proposal to his girlfriend. Her father asked for a wedding ring worth 1000 Egyptian pounds (US $113) and 100 grams of gold as […]

Things can be summarized as follows: there is nothing new. The wine is the same and the cask is the same; nothing has changed but the marketing and advertising approach. The latest episode of the story is very short but with very old roots dating back to at least two centuries. It seems to be […]

Nine years ago, Mahmoud, a reporter from Qalyubia, wrote a story that uncovered unfavorable facts about Mostorod Chemical Trading in an independent newspaper affiliated with an opposition group. The campaign raised huge public reactions and parliamentary discussions, which angered the Qalyubia governor who decided to prohibit Mahmoud from entering the governorate buildings, denied him access […]

Only a few hours after Dar El-Shorouk published Ahmed Mourad’s novel Land of God, the e-copy ripped through the social media. The administrators of the writer’s Facebook account talked about the crime of pirate books, considering it an immoral act threatening the industry and risking the rights of authors and publishers. However, the readers’ comments […]

Egyptian military courts have put thousands of Egyptian civilians on trial, which has continued unabated throughout the past three regimes. The trials have recently intensified on the pretext of the regime’s “war on terror” and resulting in harsh death sentences. Thirty-eight death sentences have been issued against civilians over the past five years, according to […]