Patrick Kingsley

"We're still selling between 100 and 300 lifejackets. In the summer sometimes it was a thousand." Updated 01 Dec, 2015 09:47am

WHEN protesters successfully called for the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last year, their rhetoric played on fears ... Published 20 Sep, 2014 06:15am

THREE Al Jazeera journalists were jailed in Egypt this week for endangering Egyptian national security — and the... Published 27 Jun, 2014 05:22am

WHEN Hany Fawzy finished editing Family Secrets, he thought he had made one of the first Egyptian films to focus... Updated 07 Jan, 2014 08:35am

CAIRO: She is American, speaks little Arabic, and has never been to Egypt. But Jennifer Grout, 23, has wowed Middle... Published 27 Nov, 2013 07:30am

IT’S a Friday night in Cairo and the whole city is rushing to get home before the 7pm curfew. Tanks are rumbling... Published 08 Oct, 2013 07:03am

CAIRO: An exact replica of the tomb of Tutankhamun is set to be installed near the 3,000-year-old original, in what... Published 05 Oct, 2013 07:03am

EGYPTIAN authorities have finally recaptured a town in central Egypt that had been under the control of hardline... Published 17 Sep, 2013 07:03am

CAIRO: If it looks like a stork, walks like a stork . . . it’s probably a foreign spy. This, at least, was the... Updated 03 Sep, 2013 07:00am

CAIRO: Egypt’s parliament is close to passing a law that campaigners say will severely restrict the activity of human rights groups and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and which is seen as a serious Published 07 Apr, 2013 06:13am

CAIRO: The family of ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak still owns assets on British territory nearly two years after British authorities called for them to be frozen, Egypt’s largest investment bank has disclosed. Published 29 Mar, 2013 05:01am

CAIRO: Egyptian judges have postponed the controversial parliamentary elections, whose legitimacy was already threatened by an opposition boycott. The move threatens to exacerbate frustrations in a deeply polarised country where several cities are once ag Published 07 Mar, 2013 08:20pm

ANOTHER day, another George Galloway rumpus. The anti-Iraq war MP has signed up to present a fortnightly show for Al Mayadeen, a new Arab television channel said to be linked to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. It Published 30 Aug, 2012 03:01am

LONDON Cristiano Ronaldo wears one. Rubens Barrichello swears by his. And it has been endorsed by the entire Wasps... Published 04 Aug, 2010 12:00am