No closer to a resolution
As Washington's fuzzy vision for peace in the region became clearer, Cairo's apprehensions about its implementation mounted, write Nevine Khalil and Soha Abdelaty

A race against time
The controversy surrounding the four Egyptian students in desperate need of medical treatment abroad, and the UK's refusal to grant them visas, continues to heat up. Jailan Halawi reports

Getting a grip on poverty
Can the current global economic system bring about the eradication of poverty? Fatemah Farag went to Alexandria for an answer

Obituary:
The long road
Ahmed Nafie

Bad times for the Brotherhood
The ruling party clinched a victory over the banned Muslim Brotherhood in the controversial parliamentary elections of Alexandria's Al-Raml district. Gamal Essam El-Din saw it happen

Control without bounds?
Human rights activists called a Cairo court's decision to sentence a web designer to one year's imprisonment for posting a poem on the Internet a "dangerous precedent". Khaled Dawoud reports

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