Cairo: Seven years after his newspaper was closed down, Majdi Ahmad Hussain, editor-in-chief of Al Shaab, the mouthpiece of Egypt's now-dissolved Islamist Labour Party, sounds downbeat. "Though we ...

Egypt’s government suppresses academic freedom in a variety of ways, censoring reading lists, harassing and even torturing student activists, and creating an atmosphere of intimidation so severe that ...

Freedom’s March is uneven. Democracy is difficult. And today, Freedom’s March is being tested in the brutal crackdowns that have killed hundreds in Syria, Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere. On Thursday, ...

As the U.S and the IMF apply pressure to the Egyptian government to cut public spending and pay a high interest rate on debts incurred during the previous regime, the Egyptian government targets ...

In this week’s round-up from the Egyptian blogosphere, I am highlighting freedom of worship from two blog posts by Big Pharaoh and Baha’i Faith in Egypt, how an Egyptian blogger has started covering ...

Saad Eddin Ibrahim winds up in a cage for his writings about his country’s political system At the outset of one of the most controversial trials here in recent memory, Egyptian academics faced the ...

A number of IFEX member organizations call on the Egyptian authorities to stop violating academic freedom, enable Egyptian and foreign researchers to work freely, and guarantee their freedom of ...

Cairo — The participants to the first day of the conference on "Freedom of Opinion and Expression in the new Egyptian Media System", organized by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) in ...