People’s Assembly Speaker Saad al-Katatny’s decision to suspend parliamentary sessions Monday without putting it to a general vote shifted the dispute over the Cabinet. Originally pitting Parliament against...
Tuesday’s papers pursue their coverage of the Cabinet reshuffle saga with contradictory headlines. For example, the privately owned Al-Shorouk leads with “Winds of change to sweep [Kamal] al-Ganzouri’s...
As decades-old authoritarian regimes crumbled or eased their grip in countries as widespread as Myanmar, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, freedom of the press gained precarious new footholds last year, according to a survey by...
Monday’s papers reveal how Egypt’s political scene has reached a boiling point amid escalating tension ahead of May’s presidential election.
Independent Al-Tahrir publishes a story about violent...
Despite the continued controversies surrounding the upcoming presidential election, Sunday’s front pages are dedicated to what Al-Akhbar describes as a “significant crisis with Saudi Arabia.” The state...