News stories by Cam McGrath, page 2

CAIRO, Sep 09 (IPS) - It was the Egyptian state's brutal restrictions on worker freedoms that transformed Kareem El-Beheiry from a disengaged lay worker into a tenacious labour activist.

CAIRO, Aug 22 (IPS) - Egyptian military leader General Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said ousting the country's first elected president was necessary "to preserve democracy" and resolve the political deadlock that had dangerously polarised the country. But six weeks after the coup he led, the notion that toppling Islamist president Mohamed Morsi would restore stability to Egypt has proven false.

CAIRO, Aug 19 (IPS) - Dina Gamal, whose 10-year-old son was born blind, says it is not him but Egyptian society that lives in the dark.

El HAWAMDIA, Egypt, Aug 05 (IPS) - Each summer, wealthy male tourists from Gulf Arab states flock to Egypt to escape the oppressive heat of the Arabian Peninsula, taking residence at upscale hotels and rented flats in Cairo and Alexandria. Many come with their families and housekeeping staff, spending their days by the pool, shopping, and frequenting cafes and nightclubs. Others come for a more sinister purpose.

CAIRO, Aug 04 (IPS) - Egypt's military chief, General Abdel Fatah El-Sissi, who in July announced on state television that the army had ousted Egypt's first democratically elected president, has tried to wrap a veneer of democracy around actions that most others have condemned as a coup.

CAIRO, Jun 21 (IPS) - Egyptians are deeply divided and the majority are dissatisfied with the performance of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, but also have little confidence in the main opposition figures or their future, a new poll has found.

CAIRO, Jun 12 (IPS) - The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag's apartment in one of Cairo's poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building.

CAIRO, May 27 (IPS) - A controversial bill backed by Egypt's ruling Muslim Brotherhood and submitted to the Islamist-dominated legislature surpasses previous laws used to repress Egyptian civil society, rights watchdogs say.

CAIRO, Apr 26 (IPS) - The mob that surrounded the home of Mohamed Nour, an Egyptian Shia living in Cairo's Bab El-Shaariya district, claimed it was on a mission to "inoculate" Egypt against Shia religious beliefs. Without intervention, Shia doctrine would spread across Egypt "like a cancer," they had warned.

CAIRO, Apr 16 (IPS) - When a young Christian girl goes missing in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, her family will call on a certain Muslim sheikh in the nearby town of El-Ameriya.