- Vol 46 No 16
- 5th August 2005
Promises of reform mix uneasily with baton charges on opposition
parties
- Vol 46 No 15
- 22nd July 2005
Recent threats to Egyptian and Tunisian writers reflect a growing confrontation between Islamists and other Muslims. Egyptian philosopher Sa'id Mahmoud el Gomeni has said he'll give up writing about Islamic religion and history because of death threats. S...
- Vol 46 No 9
- 29th April 2005
Egypt wants its own man to run an all-Africa bank everyone
else is angry
- Vol 46 No 4
- 18th February 2005
The government finds political dialogue easier when its critics
are locked up
- Vol 45 No 22
- 5th November 2004
The government focuses on economics and shows no desire to
challenge the ruling family
- Vol 45 No 22
- 5th November 2004
This is an analysis of who is who in Egypt's new goverment, including Prime Minister Ahmed Nazeef, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali and Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieddin.
- Vol 43 No 16
- 9th August 2002
As Egypt's government celebrated the 50th anniversary of the coup that toppled King Farouk and brought Gamal Abdel Nasser to power, a state security court handed seven years in gaol to an Egyptian/American civil society activist, Saadeddin Ibrahim. The s...
- Vol 42 No 20
- 12th October 2001
Egypt's war against terrorism is not quite the same as America's
- Vol 42 No 11
- 1st June 2001
It is inconceivable that the seven-year gaol sentence passed by a High State Security Court on 21 May against Saadeddin Ibrahim, a sociologist at the American University in Cairo, plus gaol sentences against six colleagues, was not blessed by President Ho...
- Vol 42 No 2
- 26th January 2001
Cairo is trying to coopt Western governments, Algeria and Saudi Arabia into a scheme to present President George W. Bush's new team with a detailed ready-made policy for dialogue with Sudan's National Islamic Front, Africa Confidential has learned. A seco...