Hazem El-Beblawi reflects on Egypts year of going to the polls

The two battles -- for women's rights and for democracy -- are equally important and they must be fought together. Says Fatma Khafagy

Can the Constitution be Unconstitutional? asks Mohamed Nour Farahat

Girls education: bringing benefits to some of Egypt's most deprived communities

Parents need to wake up to the needs of their children, and the government must act to cut the supply lines that bring drugs to the nation's youth, writes Habiba Hegab

Thy myriad problems of Egypt's higher education system are linked to the ruling party and its culture of dependence and silence, writes Mohamed Aboulghar

Gerd El-Naggar asks the Egyptian government to invest in the historic hotels that border Egypt's greatest antiquities, for they are monuments in their own right

Fateh Azzam examines the reasons behind the forced removal of Sudanese refugees from a park in Mohandeseen

Societal values as a subject used to be a main concern to those in the fields of sociology, psychology and social work, writes Hoda Badran

Paying tribute to a WHO founding father

Ahmed M. Abushadi pays tribute to the late Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal (1925-2005)

In a recent interview, BEYOND's Hedayat Abdel Nabi solicited Somavia's views on the global labour agenda as well as issues of significance to Egypt

The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (January 25-29 2006) challenges the Status Quo

by Noha Hatata

Half-hearted reform will not turn Egypt's under-performing economy around, writes Samia Farid Shihata

by Essam Mitwally

Can traditional foods become a source of income? asks Habiba Hassan-Wassef