Al Manassa | A People's Narrative

Culture_

Inter-generational defeat

After each defeat, the young generation blames the previous one, only to become the blamed after the next defeat arrives.

Alaa Khaled_ 17-5-2025

Inter-generational defeat

Urban & Economy_ Food company revenues soar as bellies rumble

Asmaa Abdel-Alim_ 17-5-2025

Food company revenues soar as bellies rumble

Viewpoints_ Walls Between Us| The mind and conscience of the enemy

Basel Ramsis_ 16-5-2025

Walls Between Us| The mind and conscience of the enemy

Politics_

Trump’s Gulf gamble: Oil, leverage and shifting alliances

Trump’s Gulf tour blends economics and geopolitics, reviving petrodollar ties and reshaping US strategy amid Israel's war on Gaza and growing Gulf-China links.

Amr Adly_ 15-5-2025

Trump’s Gulf gamble: Oil, leverage and shifting alliances

Culture_ To Sonallah Ibrahim with love

Ezzat Elkamhawi_ 14-5-2025

To Sonallah Ibrahim with love

News_

Hoda Abdelmonem’s detention extended amid health crisis

US-backed Gaza aid group set to begin operations

Ban lifted! Pit Bull, Rottweiler and others return to Egypt

Publisher Hisham Kassem sentenced to six months in absentia

Politics_

Al-Golani, from Al-Qaeda’s cloak to Zelenskyy’s shirt

With a neatly trimmed beard and a Zelenskyy-style button-up, Al-Golani sheds his jihadist past—emerging as a central player in Syria’s shifting power game.

Mohamed Khayyal_ 29-4-2025

Al-Golani, from Al-Qaeda’s cloak to Zelenskyy’s shirt

Jordan, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood: A fractured alliance

Abdelmoneim Mahmoud_ 30-4-2025

Jordan, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood: A fractured alliance

Parliament Diaries| A ticking bomb in the red hall

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 6-5-2025

Parliament Diaries| A ticking bomb in the red hall

Urban & Economy_

Is the state profiteering from social housing deposits?

Menna Mohamed_ 12-5-2025

Is the state profiteering from social housing deposits?

A Dose too small for Egypt’s drug industry

Eslam Aly_ 2-5-2025

A Dose too small for Egypt’s drug industry

Egypt is no longer my mother!

This isn't a call for despair but an invitation to rethink our approach. We need to adopt radical solutions like redefining our relationship with the global financial system

Mohamed Gad_ 26-4-2025

Egypt is no longer my mother!

Society_

The more I see of people, the more I like dogs

Menna Sharafeldeen_ 8-5-2025

The more I see of people, the more I like dogs

The church of the 'Top Notch'

Faten Sobhi_ 2-5-2025

The church of the 'Top Notch'

The untold story of captive animals in Egypt

In Egypt's circuses and zoos, applause drowns out a dark truth. Behind the animal tricks lies a vast, unseen world of suffering and abuse.

Ahmed Aly_ 1-5-2025

The untold story of captive animals in Egypt

Culture_

From hashtags to hardcovers

Toqa Abdel-Mageed_ 10-5-2025

From hashtags to hardcovers

Leila Khaled: Plane hijacker and the essence of Palestinian rage

Basel Ramsis_ 29-4-2025

Leila Khaled: Plane hijacker and the essence of Palestinian rage

Ashraf Omar: A glimpse into the life of an 'ordinary guy'

I wondered how I'd profile an ordinary guy whom I had followed his political cartoons, I thought his life wouldn't offer much for his fellow journalists to paint a portrait for him

Azza Moghazy_ 13-4-2025

Ashraf Omar: A glimpse into the life of an 'ordinary guy'

Viewpoints_

Walls Between Us| Fame or victory for Palestinians

Basel Ramsis_ 13-5-2025

Walls Between Us| Fame or victory for Palestinians

Against women’s work: Social media panders to fragile masculinity

Social media fuels a war on working women, masking fragile masculinity as morality while blaming women for economic collapse instead of confronting real power structures.

Ahmed Sayed Fathy_ 6-5-2025

Against women’s work: Social media panders to fragile masculinity

Editorial| Al Manassa in English: Claiming the Right to Be Heard

Al Manassa_ 3-5-2025

Editorial| Al Manassa in English: Claiming the Right to Be Heard

Science & Technology_

Con artists of all eras: The Ponzi scheme never dies

Abdelrahman Ghareeb_ 26-4-2025

Con artists of all eras: The Ponzi scheme never dies

Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s quadrilogy: Blogging, Linux, politics, and prison

Mohammad El-Taher_ 2-5-2025

Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s quadrilogy: Blogging, Linux, politics, and prison

Ants and their slaves: Slavery isn't exclusive to humans

They have no consciousness as we know it, yet some ants have built societies where slavery is essential to survival. What does that say about evolution—and us?

Adel Awad_ 20-4-2025

Ants and their slaves: Slavery isn't exclusive to humans