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YEAREND SPECIAL: Human rights in the dock

That nothing had changed about Egyptian authorities' attitude towards political protest was…

Sarah Carr

YEAREND SPECIAL: Sinai Bedouins suffer repeated crackdowns in a year of tension

Residents of Sinai and Bedouin tribe members continued to bemoan their treatment…

Abdel-Rahman Hussein

YEAREND SPECIAL: New market regulator tops year's economic reforms

CAIRO: One of the major changes in Egypt's economy this year came…

Amira Salah-Ahmed

YEAREND SPECIAL: Prison sentences mar freedom of expression; significant progress in right of belief

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's 2005 promise that custodial sentences for journalists who…

Sarah Carr

Hassan underlines Zamalek improvement

CAIRO: Zamalek boss Hossam Hassan believes that he has put an end…

Sherif Tarek

I am a Zionist and therefore I am pro-peace: Reflections after J Street conference

MIDDLEBURY, Vermont: Having attended J Street's first national conference in Washington, DC…

Daily News Egypt

Ismaili coaching staff resign

CAIRO: Ismaili s coaching staff have resigned after the club s board…

Sherif Tarek

Rights group calls for withdrawing dissident priest's ID card

CAIRO: Head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization Naguib Gobrael…

Essam Fadl

Egypt university to appeal niqab ruling

CAIRO: A leading Cairo university will appeal a court decision allowing female…

AFP
AFP

Rights groups, opposition parties form committee to fight sectarian violence

CAIRO: Nineteen rights groups and three opposition parties came together to form…

Essam Fadl