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Tunisia is the answer. This is, and has been, what we've been saying and believing all along. Even before writing this article, Tunisia was the answer to all possible...

"Failure" or "stumble" are the two words most frequently associated with the Renaissance Dam when you Google the issue. The failure of negotiations and stalled round of talks between...

Be careful please … if you are a journalist, then your life is in serious danger. Dear reader, this article is not meant to trigger feelings of pessimism or...

Egyptians woke up to the tragedy of the execution of nine prisoners convicted in the Kerdasa Police Station storming following the July 2013 military coup. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah...

I would like to make two suggestions to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, regarding possible TV programmes for Ramadan 2022 and 2023. The first would be a third season...

Negligence, corruption, and failure are three words that sum up Egypt's condition under the regime of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi this week. It has been a week when Egypt experienced...

The audience of Good Morning Britain, hosted by well-known British journalist Piers Morgan on ITV, was shocked this week after Morgan announced his resignation from UK's most celebrated TV...

Television presenter Tamer Amin has sparked a storm of anger on social media with a racist story. "Sa'idi people and farmers ," he said, "have...

Bread, freedom and social justice was the slogan chanted by Egyptians on the streets ten years ago yesterday. Yes, it has been ten years since the January Revolution. I...

Donald Trump is likely to go down in history not only as the first US president to be impeached twice, but also as the first (and so far only)...

An eyewitness in the intensive care unit of the Covid-19 isolation centre in El Husseiniya, Sharqia governorate in Egypt confirmed that "everybody died" when ventilators ran out of oxygen....

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi told journalists during a press conference with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris that, "It is never appropriate for us to be described...

Dear Scarlett Johansson, I would like to begin by expressing my sincere gratitude and appreciation for your strong support for human rights in Egypt. You have succeeded in exposing...

On 3 November, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) received ambassadors and diplomats representing 15 countries, mostly from the European Union, at its Cairo office for a public...

The Muslim Brotherhood has issued what I would describe as a "measured" statement about Joe Biden's victory in the US presidential election. "We call upon the incoming US administration...

"The President is lying." A striking statement that appeared on CNN's news ticker just a few moments after Donald Trump began a speech in which he refused to acknowledge his defeat...

At the end of September 2001, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stormed into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and hours later the Second (Al-Aqsa) Intifada erupted. Demonstrations swept through Arab...

The new mantra of Egypt's ruling military regime when anyone attempts to express an opinion that differs from the official narrative is that "leaks are our duty". This, in...

The police lieutenant shouted at his subordinates as he left the scene in a hurry: "Come on, get in the cars quickly." It reminded me of the Egyptian police...

If you believe that the Egyptian army contractor Mohamed Ali has a magic wand with which he can persuade millions of people to protest against President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi,...

For the fourth or fifth time in seven years, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi outrageously addressed opposition TV channels broadcasting from abroad, particularly from Turkey. This time Al-Sisi accused...

The National Elections Authority in Egypt have decided to refer more than half of the Egyptian people to the Public Prosecutor to investigate the fact that more than 54...

When Bill Jones* and his partner arrived at Luxor Airport to prepare to fly back to Cairo at the end of February, it was the end of a two-week...