Letters from Cairo

Thousands of protesters across Europe took to the streets on Saturday in support of refugees heading for the continent after fleeing their war-torn countries. Local police said at least...

Tunisia's ruling coalition is supporting an appeal against the annulment of the 2011 decree to confiscate the assets of ousted President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and his relatives, Quds...

Egypt's public prosecutor began an investigation into two Muslim Brotherhood members who were deported from Lebanon yesterday, the Muslim Brotherhood legal committee reported. On April 3, the Lebanese authorities...

Several strange terms have maliciously crept into the media lexicon after the March 2011 pol. Since then, everyone realised how strong the Islamic trend was and how rooted it...

Television channels are full of vicious attacks on Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood in an organised and systematic campaign intended to eliminate the movement. It has been said that their opponents...

We all know the famous saying about Churchill when he was told the war had damaged and destroyed everything in the country. He asked about the judiciary, and when...

There is no way that an honest resistance committed to protecting its country and people, or a pure resistance that has given thousands of its youth in their prime...

What occurred in front of the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Al-Muqatam undoubtedly saddens the heart and troubles the national conscience; something absent from the hearts of those claiming to...

What the media scene in our dear Egypt has witnessed over the last year has not been witnessed by the strongest democracies in the world; those who believe in...

The scenes witnessed in the Egyptian political arena have no parallel in any democratic country in the world. Those spearheading the scene while inflaming tensions are the same individuals...

Many have warned that politics and the law don't mix, and that judges shouldn't seek the limelight in the media. The judiciary should rise above such foolishness and keep...

It is amazing that some people are trying to present Iranian tourists in Egypt as some kind of Shia invasion. The same people say nothing about Israeli tourists, even...

The comic performance being acted out in Egypt nowadays – also known as Mubarak's trial, or the trial of the century – is actually the play of the century....

The World Bank envoy packed their bags and went back to where they came from, following negotiations with the government and meetings with leaders of the opposition that seemed...

We live in a time of media and moral laxity so, in Egypt, we must expect the illogical in every aspect of life; yesterday's friend is today's enemy, and...

We Arabs have unwittingly fulfilled the dreams of the Zionists. We have regressed and become distracted with our own internal issues and foolish disputes within the borders of our...

It has been 46 years since we lost East Jerusalem; Israel seized control of it in 1967, annexing the eastern half of the city illegally almost straight away. Israel...

Anyone who denies that the Egyptian media, in both its visual and written form, is suffering from a professional and moral crisis is either too stubborn and proud or...