With the Egypt opposition planning a major demonstration on June 30, to call for early presidential elections—which National Salvation Front opposition leader Amr Moussa promised would be the Brotherhood’s last day in office—many are wondering if Al-Gama’a Al-Islamiyya will uphold its pledges of non-violence in what promises to be a heated event. With the Egypt […]

Despite recent security problems in the Sinai area, the government proposed a new project in May to develop the banks along the Suez Canal in Ismailia. According to the project’s page on Facebook, it purports to: “Establish an integrated economic, architectural, spatial and logistic region along the canal between the ports of east of Tafriaa […]

Large cities like Cairo are familiar with the phenomenon of people moving into cemeteries due to huge population density. But this phenomenon is even prevelant in villages that have sufficient building space.   It is estimated that about 1,000 people in 55 households in Gabbanat village – El-Badari city in Asyut – live next to the […]

The people of Imam Malek and Shaltout villages in Alexandria saw their homes reduced to ashes on June 8 as a result of a fire caused by a powerful return of electrical power after long outages, destroying nearly 420 homes. “I was working on our land with my wife and children at the dawn of […]

With the influence of the Islamists in government, everyone predicted that the traditionally rich drama season of the holy month of Ramadan would be full of religious series expressing the orientations of those in power, or full of political series about the events of the revolution. However, no pure religious or political series have been […]

Among the river’s fish, Habi, the God of the Nile, discovered a strange and painful sensation when he touched an electric eel, not knowing that the cause of the shock felt was what would thousands of years later be called ‘electricity’. At the time, the fish was only used for medical purposes. It was put […]

In Bedouin tents set up for the occasion at Solh Square in Mathani Village in Matrouh—209 kilometers west of Alexandria— notables of the Egyptian Jamiyat Tribe (Beit Abu Subaiha) lined up to welcome their guests from the Obeidat tribe from eastern Libya to end a feud that lasted for 37 years. In Bedouin tents set […]

The decision of the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) two weeks ago, allowing army and police officers the right to vote, raised controversy about the real intent behind the ruling.  Some question whether the decision advocates human rights, granting every citizen the right to vote or if it is affiliated to political agendas related to the […]

Tourism usually does not interest political activists, but French academician Sandrine Gambline came to another conclusion after observing neo-liberal market policies in Egypt and their impact on the economic, social and environmental status of the country. Tourism usually does not interest political activists, but French academician Sandrine Gambline came to another conclusion after observing neo-liberal […]

The crisis Egypt has been facing since Ethiopia announced the diversion of the course of the Blue Nile in order to fill up the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is a practical example of the chaos that Egypt has been experiencing under the Muslim Brotherhood. The crisis Egypt has been facing since Ethiopia announced the diversion […]