Hundreds of people remain missing and are feared dead following last Wednesday’s shipwreck in the Mediterranean sea. Rescue organizations began receiving distressed calls from people… Read More

After five years, the Human Rights Watch’s website has now become accessible in Egypt as of 8 November. Samantha Rau Barriga, Disability Rights Director at Human Rights Watch, was qui… Read More

Reading papers at a Cairo cafe Egypt is a major regional media player. Its press is one of the most influential and widely-read in the region, and its TV and film industry supplies muc… Read More

FRANCE 24 spoke to Lina Attalah, co-founder and editor of the independent Egyptian media outlet Mada Masr. In late August, the paper published a story about corruption within the ruling Nati… Read More

Alaa Abdel Fattah | Photo credit: Mada Masr Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is now under “medical supervision” after escalating his hunger strike to zero calories… Read More

“My family and I stopped going to church because they would frequently get attacked, and the one we would normally go to [Saint Mary Church in Ard El Golf] was just recently threatened… Read More

Bannon's been indicted,Mada Masr's been charged,Pakistan is under water once more,It's just a drop, so far,A queen just died, but her riches remain,Truss once wanted her gone,But there's a d… Read More

Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah Released on Bail After Arrest Outside Tora Prison Update: Attalah was released on bail by the Maadi Prosecution shortly following her arrest. She post… Read More

Photo Credit: Coptic Solidarity “From my mother, I inherited a stone cake, and, from my father, a prison cell.” – From Graffiti for Two, by Alaa Abdel Fattah and Ahmed D… Read More

Trouble is brewing in the backyard of Muslim-majority states competing for religious soft power and leadership of the Muslim world in what amounts to a battle for the soul of Islam. Shifting… Read More

Statement by the Middle East Studies Association Committee on Academic Freedom Read More

In case you do not know Egypt has got Senate elections tomorrow Tuesday and Wednesday. Yes, and already the Egyptians abroad should have participated and elected their representatives on Sun… Read More

A Cairo state prosecution ordered from a couple of hours ago the detention of famous political activist Alaa Abdel Fattah 15 days pending an investigation into the charges of spreading false… Read More

On Monday, clashes erupted in Giza’s Nazlet El-Samman area as security forces continued its campaign to evict and demolish buildings built illegal blocks away from Egypt’s pyrami… Read More

by MarkLives (@marklives) Loeries Creative Week Durban 2017 drew to a close on Sunday night, 20 August 2017, at the Durban International Convention Centre. Over two nights, more than 241 Loe… Read More