Mai Shams El-Din

This piece was written for Egypt Independent’s final weekly print edition, which was banned from going to press. We offer you…

  Egyptian papers are joining the flurry of international press reports, commentary and speculation on the unknown culprits of the…

The iconic Maspero television building has long been a protest hub for activists voicing their mounting frustration with the state’s…

Thousands of supporters of Al-Azhar’s top cleric, Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, took to the streets across Egypt’s governorates after Friday prayers,…

As Egypt’s student union elections reach their end, independents and opposition groups have achieved surprising victories against the veteran Muslim…

The future of a court ruling to annul the appointment of the country's top prosecutor Talaat Abdallah is the main…

The Cairo Court of Cassation ruling on Wednesday annulled the presidential decree appointing Talaat Abdallah as Egypt's prosecutor general, after…

President Mohamed Morsy's speech in front of the Arab Summit in Doha and the aftermath of clashes between protesters and…

Clashes broke out Tuesday between students and guards at Misr International University, leaving dozens injured. MIU student Menna Alaa said…

Some of the country's newspapers celebrated a non-binding report Thursday issued by the State Commissioners Authority the day before, which…

  A judicial body on Wednesday appealed the Cairo Administrative Court's recent decision to suspend upcoming parliamentary elections, raising questions…

Egypt’s newspapers Wednesday were mostly concerned with different, sometimes conflicting speculations over the fate of the country’s current government, as…

    A report issued by a judicial fact-finding committee appointed by President Mohamed Morsy last June has proved serious…

Reports released by human rights organizations over the past months say that the targeting of activists and deliberate murder of…

The preliminary results of student union elections across Egyptian state universities reflect a sweeping success for students affiliated with opposition…

The news of a hot air balloon that crashed in Luxor, killing at least 19 tourists and injuring others, as…

Sheikh Shawky Ibrahim is due to begin his tenure as grand mufti in March, when the term of the current…

The news of an ongoing civil disobedience campaign organized by protesting Port Said residents, as well as the exchange of…

Demonstrators organized a march Friday to demand justice for former military leaders whom protesters accuse of killing revolutionaries during the…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s historic visit to Cairo for a summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as well…