Egypt
Religious freedom at stake in Egypt
August 2010 - If you don't fast during Ramadan in Egypt, lie about it; hide it. Otherwise, you might land in jail.
Make Ramadan torture-free in Egypt
August 2010 - It's Ramadan, but the Egyptian police continue to practise brutality and torture. This year, they should set a better example.
I say you want a revolution, Egypt
July 2010 - Activists in Egypt should look to the hippy movement of the 1960s for a successful model in bringing about long-term social change.
July 2010 - Egypt’s pavillion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 misses the mark of modernity and dwells excessively on the country's ancient past.
July 2010 - Egyptian police and a decades-old emergency law stand in the dock of public opinion following a young man's alleged murder.
Love and loathing in the Middle East
June 2010 - By calling Egyptians who marry Israelis traitors, Egypt has betrayed a group of vulnerable people who are guilty of little more than loving across enemy lines.
May 2010 - Following the lead of Islamists, Egyptian Christians are trying to ban an award-winning novel because it 'insults' Christianity.
May 2010 - Jordanian journalists believe they do not enjoy enough freedom – a malaise shared with the rest of the Middle East. But why?
April 2010 - Sexual harassment in Egypt is leading to calls for gender segregation. But is hiding women really the solution?
April 2010 - The Egyptian government looks to overhaul its bread subsidy system, but experts warn of a possible popular backlash.
April 2010 - In multicultural families, deciding on where to raise your child is no easy matter and has profound implications for the future.
Egypt's uneasy political truce
April 2010 - Egypt's secularists and Islamists agree on one thing: Mubarak must go. But when he does, how long will they stand united?
March 2010 - If exaggerated rumours of President Mubarak's death become fact, where will the end of his one-man show leave Egypt?
Egypt's online struggle for democracy
March 2010 - In Egypt, political advocacy is being sparked online, on sites like Facebook, but there is significantly less room for movement in Egypt's real world than in its virtual world.
Splitting Egypt's political atom
March 2010 - Can Mohamed ElBaradei's campaign for the Egyptian presidency save a country close to political meltdown?
March 2010 - The Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel remain controversial, but Arabs and Israelis can draw lessons from Anwar el-Sadat's quest for peace.
February 2010 - For a new generation of young Egyptian artists, music is not just about love.
February 2010 - Christians across the Muslim world use ‘Allah’ to refer to ‘God’, so why has this led to violence and controversy in Malaysia?
Egyptian football's pious turn
February 2010 - The national team is increasingly flaunting its Muslim religiosity. Where does that leave Christian, let alone secular Egyptians?
My plan for a democratic Egypt
January 2010 - With the right leadership, Egypt could rid itself of nepotism and inequality to become a prosperous and egalitarian society.
January 2010 - Israel is building a new anti-migrant barrier along its Egyptian border – leaving Mubarak's regime with one problem fewer.
Should America fear a democratic Egypt?
January 2010 - The depiction of Egypt as a country of religious fanatics who await a breeze of freedom to turn Egypt into a radical regime is far from accurate.
January 2010 - A Saudi journalist is demanding that women be given the right to four husbands. Should equality mean monogamy or polygamy for all?
December 2009 - The British are famously reserved, but so are the Belgians. Let's break the ice and make the public sphere more friendly.
December 2009 - Prominent Muslim Brotherhood member Kamal Helbawy talks about his research and ending the misconceptions that tie terrorism to Islam.
November 2009 - Much as we’d like our children to hold the same things dear as we do, we should have enough faith in them to let them choose their own belief system.
November 2009 - Reckless journalism is held responsible for the violence and tensions following the Algeria-Egypt World Cup playoffs.
Closing the 'hijab murder' file
November 2009 - The life sentence imposed on Marwa al-Sherbini's killer shows that European Islamophobia exists but is not institutionalised.
Algeria and Egypt play political football
November 2009 - Preparations for a World Cup showdown are getting heated, but does the animosity between Algeria and Egypt run deeper?
November 2009 - As the singer prepares to visit Egypt, Christian and Muslim fundamentalists agree: Beyoncé is the root of all evil.
October 2009 - Egyptians are slowly overcoming their fear of authority, but old habits die hard.
التسوية الفلسطينية عبر الصندوق الانتخابي
قد حان الوقت لمحمود عباس أن يذهب بكرامته وفتح المجال للشعب لكي يقررعبر صندوق الاقتراع
Palestinian reconciliation through the ballot box
October 2009 - To break the destructive deadlock between Fatah and Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas should step down as Palestinian president, call immediate elections and organise referenda on the future course of the Palestinian struggle.
October 2009 - New attempts to address the divide between Egypt's Muslims and Christians must be supported, not undermined, by the state.
October 2009 - For many Egyptians, tip-based and street jobs are their only means of survival.
September 2009 - The 'Chinese hymen' may make pre-marital sex safer in a patriarchal society but a woman's honour should not lie between her legs.
September 2009 - From fashion tips to adult breastfeeding – rulings by some clerics range from the eccentric to the downright bizarre.
Is Mubarak really a force of stability?
September 2009 - Providing more legitimate access to power should be the way to guarantee security and stability in Egypt.
September 2009 - Police in Egypt are using Ramadan to target secularists. The government must do more to protect individual liberty.
September 2009 - Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny's bid to be the chief of the UN's cultural wing has aroused suspicion among liberals and conservatives alike.
Covering heads and veiling poverty
September 2009 - In Egypt, Hijabless women are becoming a shrinking and marginalised minority who have to keep their bare heads down.
انكمش عدد النساء المتبرجات (غير المحجبات) وصاروا أقلية مهمشة في مصر
The Arab Republic of Investment
August 2009 - Egyptians should not be too harsh on poor Gamal Mubarak. He's bound to become the president of the many entrepreneurs and professionals and not of the few who live on less than $2 per day.
July 2009 - Egyptian outrage at the brutal murder of Marwa Sherbini, the ‘hijab martyr’ is understandable. But If Egyptians want better justice for Muslims in Europe, then they should demand more justice for non-Muslims at home.
Egypt: Power has already been transferred
July 2009 - What the speculation over political succession in Egypt overlooks is that Gamal Mubarak has effectively taken over the reins of power from his father already.
July 2009 - Despite its dislike of the Ahmadinejad government, Egypt fears the spread of the Iranian protest contagion to its own borders, but why are Egyptians not showing any symptoms of the 'Iranian flu'?
What's love got to do with it?
June 2009 - For Egyptian marriage offices, the search for profit has replaced the search for a perfect union.
June 2009 - Rather than encouraging people to make moral choices, religious groups in Egypt are imposing their values by law.
The Middle East must look to the future
April 2009 - A secular society confines religion to the spiritual sphere where it belongs, and leaves worldly affairs to human resourcefulness.
April 2009 - An outward appearance of Islamism disguises the increasingly secular reality of some Arab and Muslim societies.
March 2009 - Rumours of deadly SMS messages are symptoms of a worrying trend in Egypt – the unstoppable rise of superstition.
January 2009 - Rafah, a city divided between Gaza and Egypt, and between war and peace, prays for the opening of the border crossing.
December 2008 - In Egypt, getting married has young people all tied up in knots.
September 2008 - Egyptian women have broken their silence on sexual harassment and are demanding the right to go out in public unpestered.
August 2008 - The world isn’t short on wacky theories about Egypt’s greatest monuments. The reality is less fun, but more illuminating.
