Archive: egypt
28th January 2011
This is a guest post by Parvez Sharma
Cairo is burning. So is Egypt. Twitter is exploding. Everyone seems to have an opinion – many who have never even been to Egypt but feel a strong sense of solidarity with the most remarkable revolution in a generation, perhaps. A revolution which importantly is… Read more
28th January 2011
This is a guest post by Parvez Sharma
Hosni Mubarak is 82 years old. He has been Egypt’s absolute ruler for three decades. He is America’s biggest ally in the Middle East. He has probably never really learnt how to use a computer. I cannot imagine that he tweets or even fully comprehends how this… Read more
25th January 2011
Today is national Police Day in Egypt. It marks the occasion, 59 years ago, when police in Ismailia refused to surrender to British forces and 41 of them died in a three-hour battle. Their act of heroism is officially commemorated every year on January 25.
But since 1952 perceptions of the Egyptian… Read more
1st January 2011
A bomb exploded outside a church in Egypt last night. The Egyptian health ministry says at least 21 people were killed and 43 injured. The interior ministry had earlier put the death toll at seven.
Initial reports blamed a car bomb, though officials are now suggesting it was a suicide bomber.
The… Read more
31st December 2010
"If it was happening in Iran instead of Tunisia, it would be on the front pages of all the newspapers." Complaints of this kind about coverage of the Tunisian uprising keep appearing on the internet – many of them suggesting that editors around the world are protecting Ben Ali's regime from… Read more
22nd December 2010
An Egyptian cleric has issued a fatwa authorising the killing of Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the IAEA who is campaigning for reform in Egypt.
The fatwa, from Sheikh Mahmoud Amer, which is posted on the website of the Ansar al-Sunnah al-Muhamadiya, says:
"We, in Egypt, are a people that… Read more
21st December 2010
Egypt's state-controlled Dar al-Ifta has issued almost half a million fatwas this year, according to its annual report.
"The edicts pertained to modern-day issues, such as a widow’s in vitro fertilisation, fetal gender determination, abortions, artificial heart valves made of pig tissue, and real… Read more
18th December 2010
An short news item in al-Masry al-Youm says that 13% of the Israeli army's civilian employees are Egyptians, "according to recent reports in the Israeli media".
I'm curious to know more but the report has no further information beyond saying that the Egyptian ministry of manpower estimates there… Read more
17th December 2010
Egypt continues to dispute that large numbers of Eritrean migrants are being held hostage in Sinai by human traffickers.
On Tuesday, foreign ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki described the reports as "fabrications" concocted by "dubious organisations" to stir up public opinion in Europe.
"We called… Read more
14th December 2010
In the aftermath of Egypt's rigged election, Zakaria Azmy, the chief of Mubarak's presidential staff, is demanding legal action against al-Masry al-Youm newspaper for depicting members of parliament as cats and dogs.
Azmy, who is himself a member of parliament, says it's defamatory and insists… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
