On his first official visit to Cairo, the new Palestinian foreign minister received a cool welcome, reports Dina Ezzat

A parliamentary report concludes that corruption and negligence sank the Al-Salam ferry, Gamal Essam El-Din reports

As leading Brotherhood officials are arrested and accusations hurl back and forth, it is business as usual between the government and the outlawed movement

Conflicts between late president Sadat's nephew and son reach new heights, reports Magda El-Ghitany

Suzanne Mubarak's Women's International Peace Movement resumed its Peace Matters lecture series with renewed vitality, Nevine El-Aref reports

Egypt's first site museum is to be opened today by Mrs Suzanne Mubarak and Bernadette Chirac, wife of French President Jacque Chirac, during their two-day visit to Egypt by invitation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak

Last Friday's attack on three churches in Alexandria acted as the catalyst for a week of sectarian violence, reports Pierre Loza

What lessons can we draw from the controversy over the Alexandrian sectarian crisis? Gamal Nkrumah takes stock of what can be done

Gamal Essam El-Din reports from the NDP's one-day conference, where sectarian strife suddenly topped the agenda

Opposition MPs take leading NDP members to task for turning Egypt into a dumping ground for carcinogenic pesticides and substandard food, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Judges vow to reply to what they say is the state's attempt to quash their pro-reform colleagues. Mona El-Nahhas reports