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Awakening the past: Villagers forced to relocate dead loved ones

Awakening the past: Villagers forced to relocate dead loved ones

Akhmim village, Sohag-- Two women, clad in black, and a young girl are kneeling over a pile of burning paper…
Critics don’t buy ‘limited’ state of emergency

Critics don’t buy ‘limited’ state of emergency

The Egyptian government has passed a so-called “limited version” of the unpopular Emergency Law. But critics see the move as…
The People’s Democratic Movement: A holistic vision for change

The People’s Democratic Movement: A holistic vision for change

The Emergency Law, which has given the Egyptian government sweeping powers to detain citizens for the last three decades, has…
Online vs. off: The future of Egypt’s print media

Online vs. off: The future of Egypt’s print media

In the face of increasing varieties of alternative media channels, printed newspapers are likely to remain a primary source of…
“If I owned downtown Cairo…”

“If I owned downtown Cairo…”

Downtown: it boasts some of Cairo’s best-kept architecture, alongside some of it most battered buildings; some of the classiest establishments,…
Imagining Downtown differently: The Ismaelia consortium’s urban regeneration project

Imagining Downtown differently: The Ismaelia consortium’s urban regeneration project

After hearing rumors about “the company that is buying out Downtown Cairo” and questions about the fate of the area,…
Harmonizing dissonance: Restoration and renewal in Downtown Cairo

Harmonizing dissonance: Restoration and renewal in Downtown Cairo

Al-Masry Al-Youm speaks to Soheir Hawas, the head of the Studies Administration at the National Organization for Urban Harmony, about…
Bahai’s seek end to second-class citizenship

Bahai’s seek end to second-class citizenship

Dr. Raouf Hindi proudly holds up the national ID cards of his children Emad and Nancy. The 16-year-old twins are…
FGM: The Pharaonic rite that’s a hard habit to break

FGM: The Pharaonic rite that’s a hard habit to break

Aswan--In a nation where UNICEF estimates 96 percent of all married women have undergone some form of female genital mutilation…
Whose martyr?

Whose martyr?

On occasions, coverage of Marwa El Sherbini's was influenced by players' agendas, Hossam el-Hamalawy writes. The gruesome murder of the…
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