Prime Minister Nazif was grilled over Egypt's political reform process during his first official US visit. Asking for "the benefit of the doubt", he promised that elections would be both free and fair. Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington

How the government will ultimately respond to US President George W Bush's suggestion for the international monitoring of presidential elections remains unclear. Gihan Shahine samples the intense debate

The opposition says the 25 May referendum on amending Article 76 of the constitution must be boycotted, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

A heated Judges' Club meeting results in a potential deadlock over supervising presidential elections. Mona El-Nahhas surveys the fallout

The government may have stopped Al-Jazeera from broadcasting last week's Judges' Club meeting, but detaining eight of the channels' employees did not get it much good press, reports Mustafa El-Menshawy

The Egyptian Movement for Change tells Amira Howeidy there can be no turning back

With independent media mushrooming by the day, Magda El-Ghitany speaks to two of the genre's pioneers -- the controversial Ibrahim Eissa, chief editor of two weeklies, and Adel Hamouda, a veteran launching a new venture

Egypt's permanent representative to the UN tells Dina Ezzat of Cairo's determination to free the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction

The air traffic controllers' confrontation with aviation authorities has been temporarily frozen. But as both sides assess the damage, reports Amirah Ibrahim, there may be more trouble in the air

It took a hunger strike on the part of Esco workers for officials to negotiate with them, reports Faiza Rady

A bloody, decade-long vendetta between two southern families has finally come to an end. Salonaz Sami reports from a historic, government-brokered reconciliation in Bait Allam