Egypt 

2016

Youssef Rakha: genius in a land of madness 
Egypt's ground-breaking novelist (26 February 2016)  

Egyptian author jailed after sexy book extract gave reader "heartbeat fluctuations"   
(21 February 2016)

2015

Egypt TV host jailed for thought crime (31 December 2015)

Sisi regime raids Cairo arts centre (29 December 2015)

Eyes wide shut over Sinai plane crash (15 December 2015)

Persecuting the non-believers (10 December 2015)

Islamic State's 'Schweppes bomb' (19 November 2015)

'Black box' won't solve Sinai crash mystery (11 November 2015)

US pushes Airbus bomb plot theory (5 November 2015)

Egypt air crash update (2 November 2015)

Egypt air disaster (1 November 2015)

Targeting Christians in Egypt (16 October 2015) 

Egyptian fury over Facebook rainbow (9 July 2015) 

Hobnobbing with Sisi (11 June 2015) 

Securitising religion in Egypt and Russia (9 June 2015) 

'Faith security': a dangerous concept (4 June 2015) 

Five-year blasphemy sentence in Egypt (1 June 2015) 

Egyptian rights group backs NGO restrictions (11 May 2015) 

Sainsbury's Egyptian fiasco (30 April 2015) 

NGO accused of promoting safer sex (8 April 2015) 

Yemen, Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood (5 April 2015) 

Banned politician monitored Egypt's election (8 March 2015) 

Creating terrorists in Egypt (27 February 2015)

Another atheist sentenced in Egypt (18 February 2015)

Sympathising with Sisi (2 February 2015)

Egypt election monitoring scandal (29 January 2014)

Fake university chief to monitor Egypt's elections (28 January 2014)

2014

Egypt's unholy war against minorities  (15 December 2014)

Arab atheism: It's about religion, not ISIS (12 December 2014)

Playing the 'morality' card (9 December 2014)

Egypt's growing moral panic (24 September 2014) 

Egypt cracks down on civil society (15 July 2014)

Blair versus the Brotherhood (3 July 2014)

Sisi's Egypt to 'eliminate' atheism (19 June 2014)

Egyptian teacher jailed for 'insult' to religion (17 June 2014)

The Sisi revolution? (26 January 2014)

Revolutions are messy (20 January 2014) 

2013

Promoting democracy – the military way (4 December 2013)

People versus projects (27 November 2013)

Egypt's latest charm offensive (23 November 2013)

Atheist student faces jail in Egypt (30 October 2013)

Digging up the past (29 October 2013)

Egypt's 'homosexuality' arrests (21 October 2013)

Egypt: getting away with murder (5 October 2013)

Confessions of an Egyptian infidel (16 August 2013)  

Egypt: authoritarianism is not the solution (15 August 2013)  

A lesson for Libya from Egypt (29 July 2013) 

Egypt, Tunisia, Libya ... turmoil is spreading (27 July 2013) 

Egypt's floundering economy (17 July 2013) 

Divine rights (10 July 2013) 

Legitimacy in Egypt (4 July 2013) 

Beware of the Egyptian military (3 July 2013) 

Lessons of the Egyptian revolution (2 July 2013) 

Mob attack kills Shia Muslims in Egypt (24 June 2013) 

Artists versus Islamists in Egypt's culture war (20 June 2013) 

Egyptian provinces need elected governors (18 June 2013) 

Egypt: another circumcision death (10 June 2013) 

Egypt's double standards on sovereignty (5 June 2013) 

Egypt blocks discussion of gay sexual health at World Health Organisation (1 June 2013) 

Egypt: 'foundations for a new police state' (1 June 2013) 

Book extract: The urge to control (1 June 2013) 

Battle of the Nile (31 May 2013) 

Clashes over 'religious kidnap' in Egypt (3 March 2013)

Egypt's Christians angry over Easter election (23 February 2013)

Egypt's economy drifting down the Nile (13 February 2013)

Egypt's national dilemma (25 January 2013)

Testing Egypt's constitution (4 January 2013)

2012

Tunisia: another Egypt? (9 December 2012)

Parliament or president? (3 November 2012)

'Gay party' raided in Egypt (1 November 2012)

Advertisers triumph in Egypt's presidential debate (11 May 2012)

2011 (March-December)

Human trafficking in Egypt (18 November 2011)

A gay day for Egypt? (17 November 2011)

Election round-up (17 November 2011)

Egyptian NGOs boycott constitution talks (11 November 2011)

Egyptian jailed for 'insulting Islam' (23 October 2010) 

Violence in Egypt leaves 24 dead (10 October 2010)

Call to allow civil marriages in Egypt (28 July 2011)

Youth, 17, faces execution in Egypt (18 May 2011)

Egypt's Indiana Jones in trouble (18 April 2011)

Dress like an Egyptian (15 April 2011)

Déjà vu in Egypt (12 April 2011)

Egyptian accused of insulting the army (5 April 2011)

Zahi Hawass and the Temple of Doom (2 April 2011)

Revolutionary updates, 27 March  (27 March 2011)

Revolutionary updates: 21 March (21 March 2011)

2011 (January-February)

The Reda Helal mystery (28 February 2011)

Egypt's constitutional changes (27 February 2011)

Situation: fluid and scary (6 February 2011)

Mubarak's day of departure? (4 February 2011)

Mubarak's reform plan: procrastinate and prevaricate (2 February 2011)

Leading the way to oblivion (1 February 2011)

'Tell Mubarak we don’t need his damn Internet' ( February 2011)

Talking to Egyptians (31 January 2011)

Lighting the fire (31 January 2011)

Egypt: a day of deadlock (31 January 2011)

Mubarak clings on as his power ebbs (30 January 2011)

Egypt in 140 characters or less (29 January 2011)

Mubarak: the exit strategy (29 January 2011)

Egypt burns (28 January 2011)

This revolution will not be tweeted? (28 January 2011)

Information lockdown in Egypt (28 January 2011)

Inshallah Twitter (27 January 2011)

Egypt: exaggeration or denial? (27 January 2011)

Egypt update, January 25 (25 January 2011)

Police Day protests in Egypt (25 January 2011)

Bomb attack on Egyptian church kills 21 (1 January 2011)

December 2010

Fatwa calls for death of ElBaradei (22 December 2010)

Half a million fatwas in Egypt (21 December 2010)

Egyptians in the Israeli army (18 December 2010)

Egypt claims hostage reports 'fabricated' (17 December 2010)

Egypt: a parliament of cats and dogs (14 December 2010)

Foolish words from the EU ambassador (11 December 2010)

Egypt accused over human trafficking (11 December 2010)

UN intervenes over Egypt hostages (8 December 2010) 

Migrants 'held hostage in Egypt' (7 December 2010)

Facebook 'secrets' man jailed in Egypt (2 December 2010)

Egypt: Back to square one (1 December 2010)

November 2010

Wikileaks: Egypt, an obstacle to peace (30 November 2010)

Election-rigging in Egypt (28 November 2010)

Military trial for Facebook man (27 November 2010)

Another dose of democracy? (23 November 2010)

Ahmed Shaaban update (16 November 2010)

Blogger completes sentence ... re-arrested (11 November 2010)

Sentence completed, blogger stays in jail (8 November 2010)

October 2010

Campus security dispute rumbles on (31 October 2010)

The politics of Egyptian statistics (26 October 2010)

Police ordered out of universities (23 October 2010)

President for ever? (22 October 2010)

Sectarian tensions in Egypt (14 October 2010)

Egypt cracks down on text messages (13 October 2010)

Kareem's story (5 October 2010)

September 2010

Egyptian billionaire escapes execution (29 September 2010)

That photo again (26 September 2010)

Deeper into the mire (24 September 2010)

Photoshopping in Washington (21 September 2010)

August 2010

A gay ad for Coca-Cola in Egypt? (28 August 2010)

July 2010

Egypt's swine flu incompetence (28 July 2010)

Unfit to sail (19 July 2010)

Personal status laws in Egypt (18 July 2010)

Personal status law opposed (14 July 2010)

Court victory for Coptic church (9 July 2010)

RIP: Nasr Abu Zayd (6 July 2010)

Muslim Brotherhood taking over Europe? (5 July 2010)

'Eight dead' in building collapse (4 July 2010)

The Brotherhood's own Facebook (2 July 2010)

Khaled Said case: police detained (1 July 2010)

June 2010

Woman shot dead on Egyptian border (30 June 2010)

Khaled Said and the emergency law (28 June 2010)

Mubarak regime under pressure over killing (26 June 2010)

Protest over 'personal status' law (25 June 2010)

Khaled Said's 'light' injuries (24 June 2010) 

Egyptian churches at loggerheads (22 June 2010)

Church versus state in Egypt (2) (18 June 2010)

New autopsy for Khaled Said (16 June 2010)

Did video lead to Egyptian's killing? (15 June 2010)

Egyptian 'beaten to death by police' (14 June 2010)

Church versus state in Egypt (2 June 2010)

Egypt opens Gaza border (2 June 2010)

May 2010

Tamim family drops murder claim (30 May 2010)

Activists on trial in Egypt (22 May 2010)

Migrant killed on Egyptian border (17 May 2010)

Egyptian regime's contempt for religion (15 May 2010)

Egypt prolongs state of emergency (12 May 2010)

New call to ban Elton John (12 May 2010)

Absurd ban on Sufi ceremonies (5 May 2010)

Anti-smoking students banned from exams (5 May 2010)

Elton John faces Egyptian ban (2 May 2010)

Controlling Egypt's Sufis (1 May 2010)

April 2010

'Obscenity' of 1001 Nights (29 April, 2010)

Solidarity against ElBaradei (28 April, 2010)

Blogger imprisoned without charge (24 April, 2010)

Crackdown on dangerous ships (21 April, 2010)

Sectarian violence in Egypt (16 April, 2010)

Kuwait deports more Egyptians (12 April 2010)

Kuwait deports ElBaradei supporters (11 April 2010)

Kuwait arrests ElBaradei supporters (10 April 2010)

Cairo protests suppressed (7 April 2010)

Egyptian hashish crisis (7 April 2010)

Smearing ElBaradei (6 April 2010)

Arrested publisher is released (5 April 2010)

ElBaradei interview (2 April 2010)

March 2010

Egypt clamps down on NGOs (23 March 2010)

Migrants captured alive (21 March 2010)

Baha'is face new struggle for ID cards (16 March 2010)

Another migrant shot on Egypt's border (13 March 2010)

ElBaradei supporter 'tortured' (11 March 2010)

Charges against blogger dropped (8 March 2010)

Blogger on trial in military court (1 March 2010)

February 2010

Medical bribes scandal in Egypt (28 February 2010)

Egyptian blogger 'faces court martial' (27 February 2010)

The ElBaradei factor (26 February 2010)

Tight lips as Moussa meets ElBaradei (23 February 2010)

ElBaradei has landed (20 February 2010)

'Don't welcome ElBaradei' (19 February 2010)

UN reviews human rights in Egypt (17 February 2010)

Female circumcision 'declining' (8 February 2010)

January 2010

National Torture Day (26 January 2010)

Arrested for insulting Mubarak (19 January 2010)

Why were they arrested? (18 January 2010)

'Condolence mission' halted in Egypt (16 January 2010)

More niqab protests in Egypt (14 January 2010)

From niqab to surgical masks (12 January 2010)

Opposition to women-only taxis (11 January 2010)

Tolerating intolerance in Egypt (8 January 2010)

Murder at the midnight mass (7 January 2010)

December 2009

Egyptian Copts welcome distinguished visitor (26 December 2009)

Keeping watch on Baradei (24 December 2009)

Abu Zayd still hounded after 17 years (24 December 2009)

Victory for Brotherhood's old guard (22 December 2009)

Victory for Egyptian niqab supporters (21 December 2009)

Polygamy row in Egypt (19 December 2009)

Squabbling over the Rosetta Stone (15 December 2009)

Dire state of Egypt's opposition (8 December 2009)

President Baradei? (6 December 2009)

November 2009

Too graphic for Egypt (28 November 2009)

Jailing Egypt's boat people (27 November 2009)

Shielding corruption (16 November 2009)

Torture in Egypt: UN report (4 November 2009)

Egypt's 'war on butterflies' (2 November 2009)

Al-Azhar capitulates over niqab (1 November 2009)

October 2009

Revisiting the 'Facebook strike' (26 October 2009)

Mubarak's thugs (25 October 2009)

Amr Moussa for president? (21 October 2009)

Saadawi and secularism (16 October 2009)

Hamas man dies in custody (14 October 2009)

The biter bit (10 October 2009)

Protests at Egyptian niqab ban (8 October 2009)

Egypt's VIP prisoner (7 October 2009)

Freedom and the niqab (6 October 2009)

Egypt’s legal vigilantes (3 October 2009)

September 2009

Egypt to deport journalist (30 September 2009)

Al-Azhar discrimination complaint (28 September 2009)

Unesco: the blame game (24 September 2009)

Unesco rejects Farouk Hosni (23 September 2009)

Death on the border (20 September 2009)

Ramadan rebels (18 September 2009)

Trousers are OK, says Mufti (17 September 2009)

Selecting the opposition (14 September 2009)

150 arrested for breaking fast (11 September 2009)

Egyptian union leader questioned (9 September 2009)

King Farouk of Unesco? (8 September 2009)

Charges against Egyptian Shia (7 September 2009)

August 2009

Another religious clash in Egypt (31 August 2009)

Villagers reject Baha’i neighbours (27 August 2009)

A dismal choice for Egypt (19 August 2009)

Tax collectors’ revolt (11 August 2009)

Another crazy court case (10 August 2009)

July 2009

Crackdown on bloggers (25 July 2009)

Lies, damn lies and national security (23 July 2009)

No rhyme, no reason (21 July 2009)

Shining all over Egypt (15 July 2009)

The boys are in town (15 July 2009)

Resign, if you want a job (14 July 2009)

Egyptian floozies (9 July 2009)