Opinion

A big story has monopolized the Egyptian press for days. Not the likelihood of war between Israel and Lebanon, not…

In Tora Prison in the 1970s, the patience of political prisoners who had been held there for years was fraying…

The Middle East is a complicated place, perhaps no part of it more so than Lebanon, where all of the…

Many Egyptians long for the days of the monarchy and mourn the loss of refined sensibilities associated with a cultured…

The People's Assembly elections are drawing near, with presidential elections scheduled soon afterwards. One of these two events will certainly…

Over the past year, Youssef Ziedan has reinvented himself as a public intellectual. In spite of this achievement, he has…

The last few weeks have seen frenzied speculation about President Hosni Mubarak’s health, with journalists and commentators reading the tea…

Upon phoning a friend or relative who is busy, you are likely to be put "on hold" until they answer…

Behind the growing nostalgia for a once orderly and beautiful Cairo lies an alarming metamorphosis that is scarcely brought up…

The exceptional penetration of the Egypt's security apparatus into the state administration is one of the most significant outcomes of…