Hossam El-Hamalawy

Bio:

Hossam El-Hamalawy is a Cairo-based journalist and blogger.

Articles by this Author


Comrades and Brothers	Emad Mubarak is a busy man. Director of the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, and a lawyer with the Hisham Mubarak Law Center, the leftist Mubarak cannot hold a meeting without being interrupted by the ring of his cell phone. The...	MER242
Egyptian Textile Workers Confront the New Economic Order	For the last ten years Muhammad ‘Attar, 36, has worked in the finishing department at the gigantic Misr Spinning and Weaving Company complex at Mahalla al-Kubra in the middle of the Nile Delta. He takes home a basic wage of about $30. With...
Strikes in Egypt Spread from Center of Gravity	The longest and strongest wave of worker protest since the end of World War II is rolling through Egypt. In March, the liberal daily al-Masri al-Yawm estimated that no fewer than 222 sit-in strikes, work stoppages, hunger strikes and...