Egypt

It is no longer acceptable to live in a world where young girls are taken out of school and forced into early marriage, where women’s employment opportunities are limited, and where the threat of gender-based violence is a daily reality — at home, in the street, at school and at work. -Michele Bachelet, Head of UN Women…

'What is glimpsed at such times is a sense of what democracy could be: a notion of radical self-rule.'…

Or how the poor Majority World has escaped the Great Recession - and why the people of the Arab world might now be joining in…

Maria Golia on a wily strategist who is sowing division as his palace crumbles – and the protesters holding firm against his will.…

Maria Golia meets the man with the eyes of a caged god.…

Egyptian politics heats up over Mubarak succession…

An 80-year-old colonial law gives Egypt unfair advantage in its access to the Nile.…

In an Egypt where sexual feelings are kept buttoned up by religiosity, *Yahia Lababidi* observes an all-pervading sensuality that will not be denied.…

Cairo’s ‘garbage people’ are improving their standard of living…

Despite Egyptian intransigence, the aid convoy still hopes to get to Gaza.…