Convoy to Gaza cancelled

Central Cairo was a barrack yesterday to stop a popular campaign that hoped to break the siege on Gaza, security forces cordoned off areas surrounding the Press syndicate. Police officers searched the people in the middle of the streets and banned the access of whoever found participant in the convoy, and for the first time [...]

Muslim brotherhood and blogging

One of the remarkable phenomenon that recently attributed the Muslim brotherhood was blogging. The main question here: how do we understand this phenomenon? does it represent objection inside the group, or a new trend of individuality? can we consider it expression of openness between the members of the group and organization? and how did the organization [...]

State and Religion in Egypt

Editor’s Note: We are pleased to announce Fluffygirl’s first debut. I would like to say that Fluffy girl is a well-informed Egyptian scholar who studied Egyptian politics in Cairo University, and now pursuing her postgraduate studies in Europe, I’m gonna say that it is important to consider her views closely. [I would like also to remind [...]

Walk like an Egyptian

The Daily News Egypt has an outstanding article on how to make your stay in Egypt pleasurable as possible. In Cairo there are several challenges that can face you as a foreigner visiting it for the first time, and planning to stay for a short while, primarily difference is a symbol of this crowded noisy [...]

Rock slide disaster in Cairo

A horrific disaster took place in the eastern end of Cairo last Saturday, where a huge chunk of a stone cliff towering that part of the city crushed down killing and trapping whole families and residents. Expectations refers to the destruction of at least 50 homes filled with people beneath the debris.
From the very first [...]

Egypt is a secular state.

Al-Masri Al-Youm, one of Egypt’s top independent newspapers had an interesting interviewwith the famous Islamic thinker Dr.Abdel Sabour Shahin. The long interview tackled mainly applying the Islamic law (shari’a) along with many other critical issues that haunts the Egyptian society.
I’d like to highlight one of the basic points he went through, which is the state. According to [...]