Egypt minister apologises over police abuses
February 24, 2016
Egypt’s interior minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar said authorities were exerting “huge efforts” to investigate last month’s torture and murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni (photo
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Egypt’s hollow parliament
January 14, 2016
By Abdullah Al-Arian The final step in the restoration of Egypt’s authoritarian system of government appears to be complete. Ali Abdel Al is elected
The countries where a majority of Muslims want to live under sharia law
December 17, 2015
Countries where Islam is already favoured in law, like Afghanistan and Iraq, show the strongest backing for having Sharia as the official law of the
Lawyers for detained Egyptian photographer decry ‘smear campaign’
November 12, 2015
Wednesday 11 November 2015 11:05 UTC Esraa al-Taweel’s defence team say that, though she reportedly confessed to assassination plot, charges against her have
Egypt’s farcical electionsrc
October 23, 2015
Egypt’s ongoing parliamentary elections – farcical in every sense, with a turnout so far ofonly 2 percent – are further proof that Egypt is
Not in my name
October 23, 2015
By David Hearst If Jews want to preserve their ghastly collective memory from being desecrated they should tell Netanyahu he does not represent them For
The Fatwa of Ayatollah el-Sisi
September 1, 2015
By David Hearst Sunday was a midsummer’s day, whose balmy warmth lulled Londoners like me into a false and strictly transient sense that all
Did Egypt’s democracy die with my brother in Rabaa?
August 18, 2015
By Ahmed Bedier Never a member of organised religious or political groups, Amir Bedier was in Rabaa to protest against Egypt’s military takeover
The fatwa of ‘Ayatollah’ al-Sisi
August 18, 2015
By David Hearst If Egyptian religious authorities say it is haram to read Middle East Eye, it is not their fatwa but Sisi’s Sunday
UPDATED: Germany releases Egyptian journalist Mansour
June 23, 2015
By Miro Guzzini Al Jazeera’s journalist Ahmed Mansour (C) is greeted by supporters after being released in Berlin, Germany, June 22, 2015 (Photo: Reuters)