A nationwide train conductors strike continued into its second day on Monday, in protest against the “government neglect of their demands for higher salaries.”
An official source at the National Railway Authority estimated its losses at about LE4 (...)
The top headlines in Monday's papers include news pertaining to US Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Egypt as protests against President Mohamed Morsy spread nationwide.
Photos of protests and clashes in the cities of Port Said, Ismailia, (...)
The use of police dogs in attacks against labor actions have been documented by activists and workers, who say that this is a part of a host of heavy handed crackdown and punitive actions used against them recently.
Among the most recent crackdowns (...)
Unrest in the Suez Canal city of Port Said is at the top of the agenda for the local press Monday. Many media outlets also cover protests and strikes unfolding across the country as well as the appointment of the president's son to a well-paying (...)
The commemoration of the second anniversary of Hosni Mubarak's abdication in Egypt was centered around calls for the current president to step down, in a scene indicative of the tough time ahead of authorities.
Tens were injured and others (...)
Daily papers Sunday run news relating to the preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections, the issuing of historic court verdicts pertaining to the ousted Hosni Mubarak regime and the Shura Council, along with plans for the second (...)
The main news items in Monday's papers include: Coptic Christmas celebrations, controversies surrounding new ministers in the recently reshuffled cabinet, and plans for a strike by members of the public prosecution who are demanding the resignation (...)
Labor politics remain a thriving form of contentious politics in Egypt throughout 2012, reinvigorated by a Muslim Brotherhood-led ruling regime that many consider to be less than sympathetic to the labor movement.
On the macro-level, new laws have (...)
Three developments dominate the papers on the last day of 2012: the plummeting of the Egyptian pound to record lows; an imminent ministerial shake-up expected to be announced today; and a commemoration of the year's main milestones, set-backs, (...)
Topping the news in Thursday's papers are three chief developments: the arrest and detention of two Islamists, increasing tensions between the Islamist and opposition camps ahead of Friday protests, and the second phase of a constitutional (...)
Although it wasn't enforced during the first phase of the constitutional referendum on 15 December, President Mohamed Morsy's recent decree empowering the Armed Forces to arrest civilians is still worrying.
Issued on 9 December, Law 107/2012 (...)
Mahalla — The “Independent Republic of Greater Mahalla” was declared by thousands of angry locals on 7 December, following bloody clashes in the city's center on 27 November between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsy.
This newly (...)
Struggling with increasing unemployment, an estimated 5 million Egyptians have long resorted to becoming self-employed street vendors, and make up a significant portion of the country's vast informal business sector.
Unable to create enough jobs for (...)
Three developments top the news Wednesday in Egypt's papers, including the massive anti-Morsy protests that flooded the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Tuesday, the ongoing constitutional crisis, and media strikes against the new (...)
Although it appeared less crowded than Tuesday's million-person rally, Friday's protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square and elsewhere gathered hundreds of thousands.
Protesters demanded the revocation of President Mohamed Morsy's controversial powers and (...)
The main news item in all daily papers Sunday is the deadly bus-train collision which left at least 50 school children dead in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut on Saturday, as well the public prosecutor's ongoing investigations into the (...)
Five male members of an atheist group congregate in one of Cairo's crowded downtown bars, sipping beer and Pepsi as they discuss their thoughts on religion, sex, science, culture, politics and Egypt's new ruling regime.
This group — centered on an (...)
The beginning of the academic year this week was inaugurated with a host of strikes by employees across sectors — public bus drivers, teachers and administrative educational employees, university workers, students and industrial workers.
Violent (...)
Wednesday's newspapers center their coverage on three new developments. Topping the news is President Mohamed Morsy's visit to China for bilateral talks on cooperation between the two countries — from which he reportedly came out with tens of (...)
The mood in Tahrir Square was one of optimism and celebration following Mohamed Morsy's speech to hundreds of thousands who had congregated since after noon prayers to hear the president-elect.
A sea of Egyptian flags were waved, fireworks lit up (...)
Due to its failure to issue a new law guaranteeing trade union liberties, the Egyptian state may again be on its way to being “blacklisted” by the International Labor Organization (ILO). If the long-anticipated Trade Union Liberties Law is not (...)
All of Egypt's newspapers focus the vast majority of their coverage on the country's new president — the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy, who was also president of their political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party — and his plans for his next (...)
The campaigns to boycott the presidential election and invalidate ballots may have been given a boost following the verdicts of the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) on Thursday, activists say.
The SCC verdicts, which dissolved the recently-elected (...)
After the two most polarizing candidates won the first round of presidential elections, a growing number of disillusioned and frustrated voters are opting to boycott the second round, scheduled to take place on 16 and 17 June.
While there were calls (...)
MAHALLA — The city of Mahalla, which some call the "Industrial Citadel of the Nile Delta," conducted its first day of landmark presidential elections Wednesday amid a lower-than-expected voter turnout, witnesses and observers said.
Mahalla is home (...)