Mai Shams El-Din

Referendum voting patterns reveal changing political map, dwindling faith in process
Egypt

Referendum voting patterns reveal changing political map, dwindling faith in process

The results of this month’s constitutional referendum may reveal an important shift in the country’s political map, as well as…
Tuesday’s papers: Egypt’s newspapers celebrate 2013, slam protest draft law
Egypt

Tuesday’s papers: Egypt’s newspapers celebrate 2013, slam protest draft law

Egypt’s newspapers celebrate the New Year with a recount of the last year’s turbulent events, while the attack over a…
Between the state and the church
Egypt

Between the state and the church

Copts, many would say, have been persistently subject to sectarianism at the hands both of the state, and society more…
Voting in Qalyubiya’s Banha highlights generation gap
Egypt

Voting in Qalyubiya’s Banha highlights generation gap

  BANHA, Qalyubiya — Voting patterns in Qalyubiya Governorate's northern city of Bahna highlighted an age-specific split, as the second…
An evolving saga: Hazemoun, the Brotherhood, and the Interior Ministry
Egypt

An evolving saga: Hazemoun, the Brotherhood, and the Interior Ministry

Supporters of Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, a prominent Salafi cleric and disqualified presidential candidate, have re-emerged in the past weeks…
Tuesday’s papers: Prosecutor general resigns, judges escalate conflict
Egypt

Tuesday’s papers: Prosecutor general resigns, judges escalate conflict

The news of the resignation of Prosecution General Talaat Abdallah and the ongoing judicial battle against the constitutional referendum filled…
Sawiris sells ONtv to Tunisian businessman
Egypt

Sawiris sells ONtv to Tunisian businessman

A surprise decision by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris to sell his satellite channel ONtv to Tunisian film producer Tarak Ben…
Wednesday’s papers: ‘Yes’ vs. ‘No’
Egypt

Wednesday’s papers: ‘Yes’ vs. ‘No’

Scenes of streets full of protesters supporting or denouncing President Mohamed Morsy's decisions have become the daily routine over the…
Critics say Brotherhood using Mubarak-era propaganda
Egypt

Critics say Brotherhood using Mubarak-era propaganda

On its front page on 28 November, the newspaper that bears the same name as the Muslim Brotherhood’s political party,…
An account of the attack on the presidential palace sit-in
Egypt

An account of the attack on the presidential palace sit-in

Clashes escalated between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsy around the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Wednesday after the…
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