Egypt Articles

Forty-three NGO workers, including 19 Americans involved in democracy promotion in Egypt, have been arrested and charged with interference in the internal affairs of the country. This could jeopardise the 1979 peace treaty with Israel as US aid, tied to support for...

Can a tweet kill? Yes, if you live in Saudi Arabia and have Interpol working for the killers. All a 23-year-old Saudi provincial journalist, Hamza Kashgari, did was tweet last February, on the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed. His tweet read: ‘On the...

Just imagine the footage: Israeli soldiers faced with a peaceful protest pull a woman from the crowd, drag her painfully along the ground exposing her breasts, and a brutal soldier stamps his booted foot on her chest. The world would have exploded with anger and rage....

A year ago, probably the only genuinely independent trade unions in the Arab world were the ones created in the wake of the invasion of Iraq.  It took the US, Britain and their allies, using massive amounts of armed force to bring down a regime that did not tolerate...