TIME | The Sentencing of a Toddler Shows How Out of Control Egypt's Security State Has Become TIME As a result of those headlines and others, Egypt's judiciary and security forces are facing a sudden increase in public anger over rights abuses. Calls for reform have moved from the street to the media and even to the floor of the Egyptian parliament ... Kazakhstan: Warm Welcome For Egypt's Visiting President The Cairo-Astana Connection: Egypt's Sisi Starts Asia Tour in Kazakhstan Egypt: Triumph and tragedy |
CNN | US seeks to roll back human rights conditions on Egypt aid CNN Washington (CNN) The Obama administration wants to waive long-standing human rights conditions on aid to Egypt, raising questions from rights groups that say the country is experiencing its worst period of human rights abuses in modern history and ... Abandoning Human Rights in Egypt Will Not Produce Stability |
Vox | Gods of Egypt is the epitome of everything wrong with big-budget moviemaking today Vox When the first trailer for Gods of Egypt emerged last year, it seemed to have the opposite of its intended effect: It advertised how bad the movie was going to be. Subsequent previews did nothing to alter that initial impression. Now that the movie has ... The Real 'Gods of Egypt': Photos Murder Is Legal and Torture Is Mandatory, Because Gods of Egypt Exists Powerless to 'Deadpool', 'Gods of Egypt' Is First 2016 Big-Budget Bomb – Afternoon Box Office Update |
New York Times | Egypt Sentences Coptic Teenagers to Prison for Insulting Islam New York Times CAIRO — An Egyptian court sentenced four Coptic Christian teenagers to up to five years in prison on Thursday after finding them guilty of insulting Islam, the latest of a series of high-profile blasphemy convictions that have drawn sharp criticism of ... Egypt sentences Christian teens to jail for contempt of Islam Egypt: 3 Coptic Christian teenagers sentenced to 5 years for “insulting Islam” Egypt Sentences Christian Teens to Prison for Insulting Islam |
Washington Post | Someone listed Egypt's president for sale on eBay. Condition: 'Slightly used.' Washington Post Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi wants his countrymen to know that he would do anything to help their struggling economy. "By God, if it were possible for me to be sold, I would sell myself," Sissi said Wednesday in a fiery speech on state ... Egypt's President links Russian plane crash to terrorism Egypt blames terrorism for crash that killed 224 For the first time, Egypt calls Sinai jet crash an act of 'terrorism' |
Business Insider | Critics are absolutely destroying box-office bomb 'Gods of Egypt' — an epic so bad it might be great Business Insider The latest example is Lionsgate's “Gods of Egypt” (now in theaters), in which Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Games of Thrones”), and Geoffrey Rush star in a fantasy tale set in ancient Egypt, where 10-foot tall gods and regular-sized (yet beefy ... |
Egypt's other uprising: Start-up companies are flourishing Christian Science Monitor Egypt now has a handful of incubators helping entrepreneurs build their companies, and more investors are willing to fund them, though a shortage of funding remains a problem. A December entrepreneurship conference attracted more than 4,000 people ... |
NPR | Egypt's Military Says Toddler's Life Sentence Was Case Of Mistaken Identity NPR After sentencing a toddler to life in prison for murder, the Egyptian military now says that was a case of mistaken identity. Ahmed Mansour Qurany was sentenced Feb. 16 along with 115 other people involved in a murderous rampage in 2014. The incident ... Egypt's mistake in sentencing child to life in prison highlights broad crackdown Egypt authorities call off toddler's arrest Egyptian Military Calls Toddler's Life Sentence for Murder a Mistake |
Business Insider | This Italian PhD student was tortured and beaten to death in Egypt — and experts have no idea why Business Insider That day marked the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian revolution which overthrew Hosni Mubarak, and tension was palpable across the city after weeks of intense police activity aimed at scuppering any pro-democracy demonstrations. Italian killing highlights assault on academic freedom in Egypt Italy Stages Sit-in at Egypt Embassy Over Student's Death |
South China Morning Post (subscription) | Egypt balloon disaster: bereaved families to meet Egypt's consul-general in Hong Kong South China Morning Post (subscription) Egypt's consul-general in Hong Kong has requested a meeting with family members of the nine Hongkongers who died in a hot air balloon crash three years ago, as the inquest into the death continues in court. Three relatives of the victims will meet with ... |