The poor dominated this year's NDP congress, if not in person then as the focus of policy debate, writes Gamal Essam El-Din

The changes within the NDP are likely to shape the political face of Egypt for many years to come, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Securing Egyptian interests in a complex and increasingly combative regional context is what the ruling party says it can do, Dina Ezzat reports

This year's Bright Star exercises, the Middle East's largest war manoeuvres, display a radical structural change, reports Amirah Ibrahim

The Mehala Al-Kubra textile workers are providing a model for protest, and not just in the public, industrial sector, writes Faiza Rady

Improving economic conditions and proper regulation of exported labour are key in preventing illegal emigration to Europe. Doaa El-Bey investigates the most recent deaths en route to Italy

A microbus driver has won his case against the policemen who tortured and sexually assaulted him. It could, writes Gamal Nkrumah, mark the beginning of the end of such abuses in police stations

Professor Ahmed Shafik (1933-2007)

The mummy of Tutankhamun went on public display on Sunday for the first time. Nevine El-Aref reports on the boy king's latest journey, from golden sarcophagus to plexi-glass case

Vastly different from the last time the world saw him, a mellower Zidane came to Cairo on a humanitarian mission, writes Reem Leila

The rights of children in Africa were subject to extensive debate at a meeting focussed on improving their future