Blog posts tagged "Egypt"

March 20, 2012 7:55 pm 2 Comments

The death of His Most Blessed Beatitude Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Shenouda III comes at a perilous time for Egypt's Christian minority.

March 12, 2012 4:46 pm 2 Comments

The Israel-Palestinian conflict has been simmering as usual while the world has been distracted by last year’s Arab Spring and its repercussions. But the changes in the region affect Israel and the Palestinians too

February 24, 2012 3:39 pm 10 Comments

There’s a lot of fuss at the moment about female war correspondents as if we were some kind of recently discovered species. Yet we’ve been around a while. Lyse Doucet of the BBC and I call those of our vintage the “Old Trouts Club”. Most of us are in our 40s and 50s, although Dame Ann Leslie is certainly a member and she’s more than 70.

February 2, 2012 1:20 pm 1 Comment

If it wasn't for a hard core of violent youths, many of them football fans, manning the barricades and taking on the police a year ago, would Egypt's revolution have gone as far as it has?

November 28, 2011 7:49 am 1 Comment

Jonathan Rugman blogs on Egypt's historic day of change, as people prepare to vote following the downfall of Hosni Mubarak.

May 4, 2011 6:51 pm 2 Comments

Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller on the signing of a deal between former rivals Hamas and Fatah to bring in a joint caretaker government for Palestine.

March 28, 2011 10:20 am No Comments

Jonathan Rugman has witnessed four uprisings - Tunisisa, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain - in less than four months. And when the dust finally settles, he sees democracy on the horizon in the Arab world.

February 24, 2011 1:15 pm 1 Comment

In the desert close to the frontier with Libya the buses unload their cargos at the new camp which has sprung up in the last 24 hours. Run by the Tunisian army it is there to register and process people coming over the border from western Liby

February 21, 2011 9:43 pm 2 Comments

As protesters in Wisconsin compare their sit in to Egypt, Sarah Smith discovers that pizza is at the centre of keeping their resolve strong.

February 12, 2011 7:31 pm 5 Comments

Gradually we are putting together the story of how President Mubarak fell. Every day we get another piece of the jigsaw, writes Lindsey Hilsum.