What cease-fire?
Cairo's view is that continued Israeli aggression on the ground is more telling than airy statements from Israeli leaders, writes Tarek Atia

Listening to the children
Delegates from African nations have gathered in Cairo to assess progress towards fulfilling the commitments to children their leaders made a decade ago and to set a future agenda. Dahlia Hammouda reports

Shrine revisited
The Ministry of Culture's decision to register the Nile Delta tomb of a Moroccan Jew as an archaeological site is stirring controversy. Nevine El-Aref reports

Independents' day
The second stage of the Shura Council's mid-term elections has proved to be relatively rough sailing for the ruling National Democratic Party.Gamal Essam El-Din reports

On to the next chapter?
Human rights groups, at home and abroad, were in an uproar over the seven-year sentencing of prominent NGO figure Saadeddin Ibrahim. As the controversy seethes on, the sociology professor's case-file seems far from being closed, reports Nadia Abou El-Magd

Hawari defence challenges court competence
The defence accuses the court of bias, the prosecutor demands the death penalty, and the defendant proclaims his innocence. The only thing not in dispute at the Arcadia Mall trial is that a murder took place. Shaden Shehab tries to keep up

The price of freedom
One case down and one to go. The hunt for Nawal El-Saadawi continues, but, as Nadia Abou El-Magd finds out, the 70-year old feminist writer is undaunted

HEAT HAZARDS: Summer opened with a big bang: a heat wave so intense, the capital was smothered in a thick, stifling haze. According to the Weather Forecast Authority, the heat wave reached its peak on Monday when temperatures soared to 43 degrees Celsius. People scoffed at the figures, believing they were an under-statement. After all, this is the same authority that tells them Cairo is not getting increasingly hotter every summer, despite the collective experience of a marked heightening of discomfort during the summer months. --read on--_

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