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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Maram Mazen

Egyptian human rights lawyer Khaled Ali speaks during a press conference in Cairo, on January 24, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
January 25, 2018, 2:09 am
Sissi’s last real challenger quits Egypt presidential race
Human rights lawyer Khaled Ali cites ‘signs that pointed to a will to poison the whole operation and to corrupt and empty it of its supposedly democratic content’
By Maram Mazen
US Vice President Mike Pence at the White House on January 19, 2018. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
January 20, 2018, 5:11 pm
Pence kicks off Middle East tour in Egypt amid Arab anger over Jerusalem
US vice president to meet with Sissi in Cairo before heading to Jordan, Israel; no talks with Palestinians, who are boycotting the US vice president
By Maram Mazen and Dave Clark
Egypt Coptic Pope Tawadros II leads the Christmas Eve mass at the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Egypt's new administrative capital, 45km east of Cairo, on January 6, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
January 6, 2018, 10:44 pm
Egyptian Copts mark Christmas Eve after bloody year
‘You are our family, you are from us, we are one and no one will divide us,’ President Sissi tells adoring crowds
By Maram Mazen
Egyptian women. (AP/Amr Nabil/File)
March 13, 2016, 1:53 am
Egypt sentences blogger to 3 years for insulting women
Writer convicted of ‘spreading false news’ after saying 45% of married Egyptian women ready to cheat on husbands
By Maram Mazen
Illustrative photo of the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. (Shutterstock)
March 10, 2016, 3:26 am
18 killed in road accident in Egypt’s Sinai
Truck collides with minibus en route to peninsula’s southern resort city of Sharm el Sheikh
By Maram Mazen
Egyptian author Ahmed Naji, center background, attends a court hearing in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Ramy Yaacoub)
February 21, 2016, 1:36 am
Egypt author jailed for violating ‘public modesty’
Ahmed Naji sentenced to two years in jail over depiction of sex and drug use in published excerpt of his novel
By Maram Mazen
This photo from February 16, 2016, provided by OSN, shows actors taking a 'selfie' at the end of OSN's "Saturday Night Live Arabia," show in Cairo, Egypt. (OSN via AP)
February 20, 2016, 4:35 am
Arabic version of Saturday Night Live hits the Middle East
With hostile environment toward satire, show will have to steer clear of sex, religion and politics as it tries to sate thirst for comedy
By Maram Mazen
Tourists leave the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, about 25 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, on August 19, 2011. (AP/Coralie Carlson, File)
January 17, 2016, 5:46 pm
Particles could reveal how Egyptian pyramid was built
Thousands of years later, scientists still unsure how ancient people built the structure; cosmic muons may hold the answer
By Maram Mazen
The gold mask of King Tutankhamun on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, December 16, 2015. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)
December 17, 2015, 2:22 am
King Tut’s mask back on display after beard glued on
Piece of famed artifact was broken off by workers, but restored using an ancient Egyptian fix: beeswax
By Maram Mazen
Illustrative image of two Egyptian daily newspaper from Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, the state-owned Al-Gomhuria newspaper, (bottom), and the independent daily, El-Watan. (AP Photo)
November 10, 2015, 6:40 pm
In Egypt, angry talk of Western conspiracy over Sinai crash
Flight suspensions seen as unfair and malicious as bomb plot theories stir Egyptian animosity
By Maram Mazen
File: Debris of the A321 Russian airliner lie on the ground a day after the plane crashed in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015 (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
November 7, 2015, 11:11 pm
Noise in Russian plane’s cockpit recording bolsters bomb theory
Experts analyzing sound in last second of record, though official warns it is too early to say it is an explosion
By Maram Mazen and NOUR YOUSSEF
November 2, 2015, 1:57 am
Egyptian writer on trial for publishing sexually explicit material
Ahmed Naji faces up to two years in jail and a fine of up to $1,245
By Maram Mazen
Mask of Tutankhamun's mummy at The Egyptian Museum. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA Bjørn Christian Tørrissen)
October 10, 2015, 2:38 am
Egypt to restore Tut’s mask after botch-up
Gilded mask of ancient boy king to be repaired after beard detached and was glued back on by Egyptian Museum staff
By Maram Mazen
Egyptian author Ali Salem (screen capture: MEMRI)
September 25, 2015, 6:33 am
Famed Egyptian satirist who drove across Israel dies at 79
Ali Salem, prolific author of one of Arab world’s best-loved comedies, was shunned after bestselling 1994 pro-peace book on Jewish state
By Maram Mazen
In this Thursday, June 4, 2015 file photo, Canadian Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, left, and his Egyptian colleague Baher Mohammed listen in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Amr Nabil)
September 23, 2015, 9:58 pm
Sissi frees 2 Al-Jazeera journalists
Baher Mohammed, Mohamed Fahmy released as part of mass Eid al-Adha pardon by Egyptian president
By Merrit Kennedy and Maram Mazen
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