 Mubarak to join UN celebration
AFTER a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Namibia's foreign minister and current chairman of the UN General Assembly, announced that the Egyptian leader will visit New York in September, reports Dina Ezzat
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 EU-Egypt military cooperation
Ways of promoting military cooperation with EU states were explored by Defence Minister Field Marshal Tantawi during his recent European visit Amira Ibrahim reports
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New strategy for new faces
The ruling NDP is gearing up for the coming parliamentary elections in November. Concerned over the disreputable record of some of its MPs during the current session, the party leadership is resolved to run 'new faces' under a new electoral strategy, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
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Ensuring a fair poll
Determined to make judicial supervision over next November's parliamentary elections count, Judge Muqbel Shaker told Omayma Abdel-Latif that free and fare elections ultimately depend on all sides -- the government, the opposition and the voters -- respecting the law
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 A humanitarian agenda
On a visit to London, Mrs Suzanne Mubarak continued her work to benefit Egypt's children with the greatest needs -- the ill and the disabled
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Rights at a crossroads
A government-sponsored human rights council, a restrictive NGO law and divided rights groups. What does it all mean for the future of the Egyptian human rights movement? Amira Howeidy investigates
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Labour in turmoil
The once socialist, but now Islamist-oriented, Labour Party has split into three, and possibly four, clashing factions. Mona El-Nahhas and Nadia Abu El-Magd follow the developments
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Tragedy at midnight
Lax building codes could explain why 16 people died under the rubble of a five-storey Cairo building
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Sinking with the ship
A toxic leak at sea has paralysed fishing at Abu Qir. However, Mariz Tadros found out that inhabitants fear that the government-imposed moratorium is doing more damage than the spill
Bar elections at long last
Lawyers are relieved that a date has been set for the long-delayed elections of the Bar Association, writes Mona El-Nahhas
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Shudders of rage
Even as the storm over an allegedly blasphemous Syrian novel continued to rage, an Egyptian author was referred to trial on charges of deriding religion. Jailan Halawi investigates |
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