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In 2011, when Egypt was pulsating with post-revolution possibility, I received a grant from the Pulitzer Center to report on “The Country Outside the Square” — an exploration of Egypt’s oft-neglected provinces, hundreds of miles from the nerve center of Tahrir Square. There, schools look like …

He has never lost anyone over views, which has become a scarce trait in Egypt these days. I don’t know how you can sleep at night while keeping Mahmoud in jail for 500 days without releasing him or giving him a chance to defend himself in court. And how do you enjoy sitting among your family, when …

Comment: Freedom of the press is a tool for democracy, but in Sisi’s Egypt, and Assad’s Syria the press is being manipulated as a tool for tyranny, writes Sam Hamad.

Satellite TV channels in Egyptian military intelligence’s grip. Four Egyptian satellite television channels have fallen into the grip of the military intelligence service, which has acquired advertising rights for them, according to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar. A media company owned by the military …

The House of Representatives has approved a presidential decree to impose a three-month state of emergency across Egypt. The three months already started on Saturday at 1.00 a.m., according to the decree. The state of emergency is declared in light of …