Cairo is set on more Palestinian inter-factional dialogue, but will it work? Dina Ezzat looks for an answer

Secondary school exams are not quite what they were, writes Mohamed El-Sayed

After three and a half millennia, the mummy of Egypt's most famous female ruler has been identified. The giveaway, writes Nevine El-Aref, was a single loose tooth

The list of 44 presidential appointees to the Shura Council is heavily weighted in favour of the NDP, writes Gamal Essam El-Din

The Democratic Front Party is already preparing for the 2010 parliamentary elections, reports Pierre Loza

Dina Ezzat examines the Egyptian reaction to a tentative legislative US decision to withhold a portion of military assistance to Cairo

Mona El-Nahhas delves into the Byzantine manoeuvres surrounding Ayman Nour's petition for early release

Jailan Halawi listens to engineer Mohamed Saber minutes before a state security court convicts him of espionage and sentences him to 25 years behind bars

Although bird flu remains difficult for people to catch, it might conceivably mutate into a form that spreads among humans, sparking a global pandemic that could kill millions. Reem Leila reports on the possible king of killers

Amr El-Azaby, the new head of the Egyptian Tourist Authority, speaks with Rehab Saad about the pitfalls, and the potential, of promoting Egypt