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July 2009  Volume # 30  Issue 07 
 
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June, 2005
The Race is On
Voters approved a constitutional change that will see the nation’s first-ever presidential election take place this fall. Get ready for the most

By  Noha El-Hennawy
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Cover Story
Age of Insecurity
Whatever happened to the Egyptians, indeed? The ‘good old days’ of our parents may not have always been good, but they were considerably safer. Today, our morbid fascination with true-crime stories is gorging on a glut of true crimes. What is to be done as our streets, homes and even rhetoric become even more violent?
My mother has officially appointed herself as our family’s chief crime reporter, and she makes certain to pepper her daily report (God help us) with recommendations — in the form of her own commandments — for how my sisters and I should avoid falling victims of disaster.

By  Azza Khattab - Read more

et Feature et The Watch  
  Egypt’s Greatest Pipeline  Dancing Queen
Today, the medieval Borg El-Sakkiyat is just another landmark, but in its day, it was the heart of the capital’s aqueduct system, Magra Al-Uyun

We have all passed it many times when traveling the Corniche from Maadi to Downtown — the huge brick structure on the right, located just as the

By  Bill Key   -  Read more
Karima Mansour is a well-known name in the contemporary dance world overseas; in her home country, however, she can barely find the space to stretch out

Dance has been a part of Mansour’s life from her earliest years. After briefly studying English Literature at Cairo University, she realized her life’

By  Sherif Awad   -   Read more

Catch the Wave
A small but passionate band of surfers are spreading stoke for the future of wave riding along the North Coast
By Mackenzie Berg
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Street Smart
You see them every day, maybe complain about them and likely buy things from them: They are unregistered street vendors, making an honest living illegally
By Dina Basiony
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Wheels of Change
A Ministry of Finance project is trying to upgrade the ride for taxi drivers and their passengers
By Dina Basiony
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