Talk to people intimately familiar with Egypt, and you'll find two views dominating how they perceive the country today. The first is a romantic, nostalgic view of a
Amidst the talk about militant Islam's holy war against the west, Europe's phobia of homegrown Islamism, and academic theorisation of the eminent clash between the liberal
The death on 30 August 2006 of the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz - the sole Arab writer to receive the Nobel prize in literature - was marked around the world,
More than 4,000 people gathered around Cleopatra Hospital in Heliopolis, Cairo in the second week of May 2006; many thousands more sent encouraging telegrams and made phone calls. All
The meeting of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East in Sharm al-Sheikh from 20-22 May 2006 whose theme was "the promise of a new generation" witnessed
In its fifty-three year history as a republic, Egypt has so far had three pharaohs: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and the incumbent Hosni Mubarak. As the 78-year-old Mubarak approaches
Egypts presidential election campaign is heating up as it approaches its 7 September climax. The result may be a certain victory for the incumbent of twenty-four years, Hosni Mubarak,
In March and April 2005, the secretariat of the National Democratic Party (NDP), the ruling party in Egypt since the reestablishment of political parties in the country in the mid-1970s,
