Readying for development
Egypt is preparing to cross the digital and economic divide through cooperation between North and South, writes Nevine Khalil

Fractious factions
Amira Howeidy looks into the collapse of the Palestinian factions' Cairo ceasefire talks

NDP's plan backfires
The Supreme Administrative Court dealt the NDP a stunning blow by ordering that the 25 December by-elections in 17 districts be confined to those who ran in 2000. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Books for the future
The Cairo International Children's Book Fair celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Dina Ezzat reports on the forum's debate over the future of books

A non-case?
The trial of an anti-war activist charged with forming an underground communist group opened this week. Amira Howeidy was there

Newsreel
On Wednesday Egypt's two major highways were smothered in morning fog causing a series of car crashes...