Mai Shams El-Din

This piece was written for Egypt Independent’s final weekly print edition, which was banned from going to press. We offer you…

  Egyptian papers are joining the flurry of international press reports, commentary and speculation on the unknown culprits of the…

The iconic Maspero television building has long been a protest hub for activists voicing their mounting frustration with the state’s…

Thousands of supporters of Al-Azhar’s top cleric, Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, took to the streets across Egypt’s governorates after Friday prayers,…

As Egypt’s student union elections reach their end, independents and opposition groups have achieved surprising victories against the veteran Muslim…

The future of a court ruling to annul the appointment of the country's top prosecutor Talaat Abdallah is the main…

The Cairo Court of Cassation ruling on Wednesday annulled the presidential decree appointing Talaat Abdallah as Egypt's prosecutor general, after…

President Mohamed Morsy's speech in front of the Arab Summit in Doha and the aftermath of clashes between protesters and…

Clashes broke out Tuesday between students and guards at Misr International University, leaving dozens injured. MIU student Menna Alaa said…

Some of the country's newspapers celebrated a non-binding report Thursday issued by the State Commissioners Authority the day before, which…