Mostafa Ali's Articles

As rain-drainage system fails millions in Egypt's second largest city and leaves five dead, government opens investigations to determine culprits of another disastrous storm season

While workers’ struggles have won concessions in latest wave of strikes, both capital and government, with political advantages over labour, remain intransigent in the face of demands that challenge the neo-liberal status quo

The Brotherhood and the generals will reach more 'understandings' and 'deals' but disparate political goals will send them back to the field of battle one against the another, time and again

Some revolutionaries in Egypt make a blunder in calling the wavering Brotherhood 'fascists' thus repeating deadly political mistakes that led to costly defeats for revolutions in Germany and Chile

As historical record indicates, the prospects of true equality in Egypt for Copts, Nubians and Bedouins is tied to the fate of the revolution not hopes in a change of heart by the old order

Farid El-Dib, Mubarak's lead defence lawyer, has carved a career for himself in defending celebrities and taking on cases nobody in Egypt wanted to touch