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Articles of the author Heba Afify
With poor economy and lack of political incentives, newspapers struggle to survive
Over the last two years, the number of privately owned newspapers in Egypt has multiplied — but so also have the challenges they face. Talk of cutting losses, increasing copy prices, shutting down publications and going from daily to weekly publication has started buzzing in the industry in recent (...)

21 - 02 - 2013
Sunday''s papers: Iran goes too public
“Your letter is rejected” is the headline of the state-owned Al-Gomhurriya newspaper in response to the letter that Iranian Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei sent to President Mohamed Morsy inviting Egypt to follow the Iranian model. With widespread fear in Egyptian society of potential Iranian influence (...)

17 - 02 - 2013
The politics of violence
With a covered face and a rock in hand, one protester taking part in the ongoing clashes with the police at Qasr al-Nil Bridge knew the drill too well, after two years of periodic clashes. As the few lines of protesters separating him from the police line started running in panic at the sound of a (...)

01 - 02 - 2013
Ahead of anniversary, suspension between normalcy and ongoing revolution
Ahmed Farag, a 25-year-old lawyer, sits in his office in a suit and tie, but underneath his desk is a backpack with jeans, a shirt and sneakers. The extra clothes are always on hand in case a protest turns unexpectedly violent and he needs to head to the scene. Like the thousands who have engaged (...)

24 - 01 - 2013
Thursday''s papers: 25 January starts early
Days ahead of the 25 January revolution's second anniversary, Thursday's papers report on ultras' protests yesterday as a preview of the larger demonstrations expected Friday to commemorate the start of the revolution. The football fans group staged day-long protests demanding justice for their (...)

24 - 01 - 2013
Wednesday''s papers: The blame game
The local press Wednesday attempts to determine culpability for the devastating train wreck that killed 19 police conscripts and injured more than 100 late Monday. In a transparent attempt to head off accusations against President Mohamed Morsy's government, Freedom and Justice newspaper tries to (...)

16 - 01 - 2013
Elections law debates raise controversy on several levels
The parliamentary elections law, currently being debated in the Shura Council, which has legislative powers until parliamentary elections, is marking another juncture in the ongoing rift between Islamist and civil groups. Forces in opposition to the Islamists are already slamming what has been (...)

13 - 01 - 2013
Sunday''s papers: Morsy speaks, again
President Morsy's latest address to the nation—at Saturday's opening session of the Shura Council's new cycle—provoked a few sarcastic headlines in Sunday's papers. Independent daily Al-Sabah observes that “Morsi speaks about the Egypt he imagines,” criticizing the president's speech as overly (...)

30 - 12 - 2012
The outcome of the referendum promises less, rather than more, stability
Following the first round of the referendum on the constitution, which many hoped would be the first step on the road to stability, close results and fears about violations indicate the political upheaval will continue, and perhaps even intensify. Ten governorates voted on Saturday on a draft (...)

19 - 12 - 2012
Sunday''s papers: Morsy supporters fill the streets
Sunday's front pages report on the large pro-Mohamed Morsy protests staged Saturday, as opposition voices in Tahrir Square and elsewhere spoke out against the 22 November constitutional declaration issued by Morsy and the draft constitution that he put to a referendum scheduled for 15 December. The (...)

02 - 12 - 2012
Not a monolith: Different faces of the judiciary react to Morsy''s declaration
Chants of “down with the regime” echoed Saturday through the halls of the Judges Club, whose general assembly rejected President Mohamed Morsy's recent constitutional declaration and called on all courts to suspend their work in protest. Nearby, a judicial group called Judges for Egypt announced (...)

28 - 11 - 2012
Porn ban unrealistic and worrying, experts say
On Wednesday, the general prosecutor ordered the relevant authorities to enforce a court ruling banning pornographic websites that was issued in 2009. Many experts predict that it is unlikely the government has the technological capabilities to carry this out, but they warn that the prosecutors' (...)

09 - 11 - 2012
Thursday''s papers: Sinai conspiracies and constitution debate
The repeated attacks on police forces in Sinai and the ongoing investigation of a “terrorist cell” in Nasr City have opened the door for a flood of conspiracy theories and a renewed focus on the deteriorating security situation in the strategic peninsula. State-run Al-Akhbar newspaper reports that (...)

08 - 11 - 2012
Thursday''s papers: Content and fate of constitution uncertain
The first draft of the new constitution released last week continues to be discussed and debated inside and outside the Constituent Assembly. Meanwhile, the fate of the assembly and the constitution remains uncertain as the Supreme Constitutional Court starts reviewing the case against its (...)

25 - 10 - 2012
The new faces of the Emergency Law
“Only in Egypt: you object to the Emergency Law, they change its name to the ‘protecting society from criminals' law; you object to that and its name becomes the ‘safeguarding the gains of the revolution' law.” This was the reaction of lawyer and activist Malek Adly on his Twitter account when (...)

22 - 10 - 2012
Non-Islamists in Minya search for new ways to build support
MINYA — Clustered around a long table in an office in the heart of Mallawy city on 4 October, southern Minya's urban center, members of non-Islamist parties discussed with great enthusiasm — but little concrete planning — an initiative they are launching to increase their ability to compete against (...)

16 - 10 - 2012
A politicized justice
The acquittal of all defendants in the Battle of the Camel case, and President Mohamed Morsy's subsequent sacking of the public prosecutor, are the most recent examples of the politicization of the judiciary, observers say. Twenty-four defendants, including pillars of the Mubarak regime such as (...)

12 - 10 - 2012
Delta force: After 60 years of neglect, Delta village declares independence
Minutes after breaking a two-day hunger strike, Samir Abdel Hady, a health employee from the village of Tahseen in Daqahlia, leaned against the wall with a look of sheer exhaustion in his eyes. It was despair rather than food deprivation that seemed to have taken its toll on the father of two, who (...)

26 - 09 - 2012
Egypt, US struggle to maintain relations while appeasing public anger
With the Egyptian public outraged about a film apparently produced in the US that allegedly insults the Prophet Mohamed, and the American public looking to Obama to condemn the breach of the US Embassy in Cairo by protesters last Tuesday, the governments of both nations have strained to cater to (...)

14 - 09 - 2012
In spite of infamous legacy, new Emergency Law set to be decreed by president
The official state of emergency inaugurated by Hosni Mubarak was synonymous with the political repression of his rule. Under what was supposed to be a temporary measure, freedom of expression and human-rights were deferred permanently, to a future which never got any closer. When the state of (...)

11 - 09 - 2012
Paralympics athletes celebrated in Cairo airport
The Egyptian Paralympics team left to the London games last month with little public attention or anticipation. But after winning 15 medals for Egypt and breaking two world records, they returned as heroes. On Monday night, hundreds received the returning Paralympians at the Cairo airport, who (...)

11 - 09 - 2012
Constitution Party does not lack enthusiasm
Two hundred Constitution Party members in Giza celebrated the opening of their new headquarters Monday. A crowd of young men, college students and young professionals jostled excitedly around a board, on which members of the newly established party had written phrases expressing their (...)

06 - 09 - 2012
Empowered Brothers celebrate, their way
The Muslim Brotherhood has mobilized its supporters for a mass gathering in Tahrir Square in support of President Mohamed Morsy's recent reshuffling of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. But this time, prayer was the Brotherhood's choice of demonstration tool. On Thursday, thousands performed (...)

18 - 08 - 2012
Media moguls struggle to keep their biases in check
Over the past year and a half, the same news anchors were seen pleading with protesters in Tahrir Square to let then-President Hosni Mubarak finish his term – then celebrating his overthrow. They revered protesters as freedom fighters only to call them thugs on other occasions; they warned of (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
Can the next president bring stability to Egypt?
Homemaker Mona Hamed was maybe a bit too hopeful as she took to the polls last Saturday. Like many, Hamed hoped that the president she's electing would end the confusion that has reigned since Hosni Mubarak's ouster and would immediately create a better post-revolution Egypt. “We want stability, we (...)

24 - 06 - 2012
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