Last week's second annual NDP conference revealed the clear predominance of Gamal Mubarak and his reform team. Omayma Abdel-Latif tries to figure out how democratic their reform agenda might be

A group of outstanding Egyptian students were granted a US-sponsored, fully funded scholarship at the AUC. Dena Rashed explores the implications

Opposition parties wholeheartedly rejected the relatively progressive amendments proposed by the NDP to some key political laws. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Why was the NDP so wrapped up in economic reforms? Gamal Essam El-Din reads between the lines

Gihan Shahine digs into last week's dubious abduction of six Egyptian telecom engineers in Iraq

Western officials and think tank analysts explained their take on the NDP's reform agenda to Omayma Abdel-Latif

Dashed hopes and a sit-in marked the would-be Al-Ghad Party's failure to get a ruling from the Political Parties Court. Mona El-Nahhas reports

While Egyptians look forward to the Ramadan arrival of reasonably priced Sudanese meat, some Sudanese meat merchants are grumbling, writes Gamal Nkrumah

There is no doubt that though the ninth International Congress of Egyptologists (ICE) is over, the Egyptian presence will continue to prevail in Grenoble. Nevine El-Aref reports from France