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The sight of a US president receiving a standing ovation from students at Cairo university is not one we could have imagined a couple of years ago.

Post office workers have struck in the latest wave of protests to sweep Egypt.

Egyptian authorities have cancelled the Cairo Conference, organisers have confirmed.

The Egyptian government’s plan to slaughter the country’s pigs as a response to swine flu provoked riots in the capital city of Cairo last Sunday.

Egyptian security forces have launched a campaign of intimidation against supporters of Palestine.

The carnage in Gaza is the latest reflection of Tony Blair’s "success" in his role as Middle East peace envoy.

Opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza has exposed the shortcomings of the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition movement in Egypt, according to socialist activists in the country.

Palestine has become a unifying force across the globe. That was the main sentiment of a conference against imperialism that took place in Lebanon last weekend.

In April 2008 Egypt’s interior ministry was faced with a dilemma. Should it send state security forces to Mahalla al-Kubra, the restive industrial town in the Nile Delta, or to Egypt’s border with Gaza, where it feared hungry Palestinians would attempt another breakout.

An emergency security court in Egypt has jailed 22 textile workers and their supporters for their role in the uprising in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla al-Kubra. A further 27 were acquitted.

It was dubbed the sparkling jewel of the Persian Gulf – and held up as proof of the wonders of the free market.

The fourth annual conference of the Twinning With Palestine Network took place in London last Saturday.