The Salafi Spring
A Salafi advertisement posted Cairo that says: No to secularism, Yes to Islam The sheikh sat in a slick office on the ninth floor of a tower block and twiddled with his mobile phone. Bathed in bright...
View ArticleA Frosty Reception
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes the victory sign during a meeting with Ahmed Al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo’s Al-Azhar mosque. Source: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty ImagesLONDON, Asharq...
View ArticleEgyptian cabinet takes shape
Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour looks on as he meets with US Deputy Secretary of State at the presidential palace in Cairo on July 15, 2013. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images. CAIRO, Asharq...
View ArticleA Crime Against Women
Egyptian women attend a lecture on female genital mutilation in Beni Suef. (CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/Getty Images) A thirteen-year-old Egyptian girl’s tragic death during a botched genital mutilation...
View ArticleEgyptian police clash with Mursi supporters, many killed
Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood gesture as Egyptian security forces (unseen) move in to disperse their protest camp, on August 14, 2013....
View ArticleEgyptian Christians fear further sectarian violence as Egypt crisis continues
A picture taken on August 14, 2013, shows the facade of the Prince Tadros Coptic church after being torched by unknown assailants in the central Egyptian city of Minya. (-/AFP/Getty Images)London,...
View ArticleConstitution Conundrum
Egypt’s 50-member constitution-drafting committee at their first meeting in Cairo on September 8, 2013. (AFP/Getty Images)Rumors continue to swirl around Egypt’s Lagna Al-Khamseen—the fifty-member...
View ArticleEgypt: Brotherhood students attempt to storm Al-Azhar
Students of Al-Azhar University stage a protest around the university on November 21, 2013. (Ahmed Ismail/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s security forces dispersed a...
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