More mouths to feed or a more productive community? Egypt's National Population Conference attempts to sort out the chicken or egg debate, Reem Leila attended

Mustafa Khalil

Muslim Brotherhood objections to outlawing female genital mutilation are ignored by the People's Assembly, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Civil society is increasingly perturbed by the prickly question of religious freedoms in Egypt, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Reem Leila reports on a raft of incidents that many fear signals worsening relations between Egypt's Coptic Christian community and their Muslim fellow citizens

The Muslim Brotherhood's internal elections are perceived as an attempt to consolidate the position of hardliners, reports Sophia Ibrahim

Was a hospital's electrical outage responsible for the deaths of four newborn babies? Al-Ahram Weekly reports on what is possibly a strange, tragic coincidence