Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة

In Tyre (Soure) today, 31 victims killed by Israeli bombs over the past week were buried en masse. The youngest victim is one-day old Sawsan...

While Arab kings and presidents grinned from ear to ear and conferred on the “crisis” under the watchful eyes of their security details, dis...

Mr Anwar Sadat had a notorious but particularly apt expression whenever he embarked on one of his endless authoritarian manoeuvres. “It’s al...

The certainty of death is no preparation for the actual arrival of the Reaper. In the early hours of 18 June, the honourable Ahmed Nabil al-...

I can’t believe that the extraordinarily sprightly and kindhearted Ahmed Abdalla is no longer with us on this earth. He passed away earlier ...

Thursday’s marking of referendum day 2005 unfolded as planned, with relatively less state violence directed at peaceful protestors, compared...

First things first. Thankfully, Justice Hisham al-Bastawisi is in stable condition after suffering a heart attack early Wednesday morning (p...

“The streets of downtown looked as if a foreign country had declared war on Egypt,” quipped a judge. Indeed, Thursday 11 May was even more b...

Yet another significant day dawns, as judges Mahmoud Mekky and Hisham al-Bastawisy prepare to reappear before the disciplinary board entrus...

Forecasts of a fin de siècle fill the air, alternately breathless and reasoned . They point to the swiftly cascading natural and man-made d...