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Opinion
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5/13/2013 6:22:03 PM
The draft legislation on access to information ignores civil society recommendations and will lead to a toothless information watchdog that is beholden to ill-defined 'national security' interests
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Egypt
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Politics
4/5/2013 12:17:09 PM
The European Union's envoy to Cairo urged Egypt's Islamist-led authorities on Thursday not to rush through legislation on civil society and NGOs that could curb an embryonic democracy
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Business
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Economy
3/29/2013 2:30:09 PM
Egyptian and foreign governments have not been trying hard enough to recover assets stolen by former Mubarak regime figures, argued civil society experts
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Egypt
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Politics
3/28/2013 12:42:17 PM
Honouring the Arab Spring revolutions, this year's World Social Forum is being held in its epicentre, Tunisia
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Egypt
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Politics
3/26/2013 6:08:20 PM
Over objections of civil society organisations, upper house of Egypt's parliament approves 'in principle' new legislation – drafted by Muslim Brotherhood's FJP – regulating activities of foreign NGOs
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Egypt
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Politics
3/12/2013 3:38:58 PM
Urban planners, architects, academics, civil society activists, sociologists, and state planner discuss Egypt's growing informal housing crisis
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Egypt
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Politics
2/24/2013 9:17:14 PM
In first trip to country as US secretary of state, John Kerry is scheduled to meet with Egyptian government officials, civil society representatives and businessmen
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
2/16/2013 12:00:00 AM
Ahram Online rode the underground with Noon Creative Enterprise as they put on one of their dozens of performances over the past two weeks in Cairo's metro cars, opening conversations with commuters on sexual harassment
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Egypt
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Politics
2/7/2013 6:41:17 PM
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) has claimed that draft legislation would dramatically restrict the work of civil society in Egypt if it is passed
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Egypt
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Politics
1/16/2013 8:39:21 PM
Egypt's Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) gives local and international civil society groups until mid-February to apply for supervisory role in upcoming parliamentary polls
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Arts & Culture
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Music
1/7/2013 12:00:00 AM
The Nile Project in Aswan launches to tackle water scarcity issues by fusing connections between the people of Nile Basin - through music
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Egypt
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Politics
11/6/2012 9:02:37 PM
Various Coptic civil society groups are calling on Morsi to investigate the incident on Monday night when a crowd of Salafists raided land owned by a church in a Cairo neighbourhood
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World
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Region
11/2/2012 3:22:07 PM
Syrian women's civil society organizations and activists convene in Cairo to launch peace initiative, calling for a just and peaceful solution
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Books
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Arab
10/29/2012 2:03:15 PM
The book is particularly relevant today, in the midst of the Arab revolutions, which have demonstrated the importance of civil society
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Egypt
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Politics
10/20/2012 7:13:56 PM
Behind the ongoing NGO trial case is a political spat between the US administration and the former Egyptian government, say defendants speaking out for the first time
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World
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Region
10/7/2012 3:28:53 PM
A Gulf civil society organsation calls Saudi Arabia for the release of Raef Badawi, a political activist arrested on accusations of setting up a liberal website on the internet
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
9/16/2012 12:00:00 AM
NGO's, an art institution and a local second hand bookstore with many others are set to celebrate the International Day of Peace on 21 September with concerts and workshops (video)
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Egypt
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Politics
9/10/2012 8:07:11 PM
Political groups, parties and civil society have yet to agree on unified approach to resolving ongoing differences over country's first post-revolution constitution
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Egypt
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Politics
8/6/2012 10:56:20 PM
Rights activists call for the issue of the rights of 30 million children to be guaranteed under Egypt's next constitution
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Egypt
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Politics
7/30/2012 1:00:02 AM
Constituent Assembly to discuss draft constitution with political forces on Friday; Supreme Administrative Court to rule on assembly's constitutional legitimacy on Monday
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