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Technology Helps Spread Discontent
What began as a widespread call for a general strike ended Sunday as the police cracked down more...

Against the odds
He has been jailed, his computer has been seized, his blog is tracked by intelligence officials, and more...

Mubarak's new victim Al-Hiwar
The war between the media and the Egyptian government continues as NileSat suddenly suspended more...

Cartoon revolution
About 50 meters from the banks of the Nile, a mass of dreadlocks is hanging over a drawing of a man more...

Unprecedented wave of labor resistance
The first time the 27,000 employees at Misr Mahallah Spinning and Weaving factory went on more...

Worries Mubarak succession may hit growth
Uncertainty over who will succeed Egypt's 79-year old President Hosni Mubarak is a risk for more...

Mubarak curbs dissent
The editors of four newspapers were sentenced to year-long prison sentences in Egypt. Their crime more...

NDP patronage machine
Despite a highly marketed effort at modernisation, Egypt's ruling party is still centred on one man more...

Don't expect Washington to push democracy
President Hosni Mubarak has ruled Egypt for over a quarter of a century. Almost 80, and reportedly in more...

Charges of wide abuse
The regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in the midst of one of its largest crackdowns more...

Freer markets but unfree minds in Egypt
Egypt is a towering enigma - sometimes monstrous, sometimes magnificent - that hovers above the rest more...

Why does Egypt choose to stoop so low?
There is a special sadness to the diminution of giants, to great men and countries that choose to stoop low. Egypt, in this respect, mystifies us more...

Egypt's Unchecked Repression
This month marked the fourth anniversary of the disappearance of Egyptian journalist Reda Hilal. Rumors about the involvement of a secret more...

Egypt loses taste for democratic reform
Last night, as a red sun disappeared into the grey asphalt jungle of central Cairo, the brief more...

Key supporters missing
Egyptian liberal and conservative opposition groups say they have lost key supporters in their more...

Imagining Otherwise In Egypt
For two decades, politics in Cairo, the Arab world's greatest capital, had emulated the more...

Dictator won't delete Egypt's bloggers
Abdul Karim Nabil, the 22-year-old Egyptian blogger sentenced to three years in jail for more...

Quest for identity
The question whispered in the bazaars and cafes of Cairo these days is who will be the successor more...

Egypt steps on the press
Court proceedings started Sunday against Howaida Taha, an Al Jazeera journalist arrested while more...

U.S. Has Lost Credibility On Rights
The advocacy group Human Rights Watch said yesterday that Washington's once-powerful role more...