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A city called Egypt

It’s past time that Egyptians came to terms with the reality that we’re a country that imports its breakfast.

12 Million Egyptians to be Affected by Climate Change

A study conducted by the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, commissioned by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development, warned that Egypt would be one of the Arab

Gaza Freedom March Day Two: Arrests, a UN protest and Joe Sacco

I have, in the weeks prior to Code Pink D-Day of the 28th of December, received many e-mails and updates.

Algerian publishers to boycott Cairo book fair

Maybe the war between Algeria and Egypt is not quite finished. The Cairo International Book Fair, to be held this January, has already experienced the fallout of the recent football

Interview with British MP George Galloway from Viva Palestina convoy

Bikya Masr sat down with British Member of Parliament George Galloway as he traverses Europe, leading the third Viva Palestina convoy from the UK to Gaza in order to deliver

Hassan: Egypt which destroyed the Bar-Lev barrier is now protecting Israel with an iron wall.

MP Hamdy Hassan, spokesman of the MB Parliamentary bloc, submitted an urgent statement to the Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazif, on the establishment of an iron fence between Egypt and Palestine.

French Military officials supervise construction of underground wall in Egypt.

French and American officials have been monitoring the construction by Egyptians in installing a series of metal sheets some 60 feet deep along its border.

Politics: Succession debate enthrals the chattering classes

Just a few years ago, talk of a possible inherited succession in Egypt was considered taboo. In any case, the message, from the top down,

Report: Human Rights on the Decline Part II

As we reported earlier, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has released a comprehensive and thorough report, called “Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform,”

Bastion of Impunity, Mirage of Reform

Today the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies released its second annual report on the state of human rights in the Arab world for the year 2009.