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Gamal Mubarak
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Hosni Mubarak
16 min read
Hosni Mubarak (1928–2020): The rise and fall of Egypt’s longest-ruling president
Mubarak used fear of Islamists to justify a repressive police state.
Ahmed Nazif
28 min read
Is the government building a parallel bureaucracy?
Mohamed Hamama and Osman El Sharnoubi
| Power is concentrated in the presidency and military at the expense of other state institutions
corruption cases
17 min read
The Mubaraks’ quick turn through the jailhouse turnstile
Asmahan Soliman and Rana Mamdouh
| Alaa and Gamal’s brief stint in detention points to dissatisfaction with their political standing
Alaa Mubarak
8 min read
The Mubarak sons’ insider trading case: The story of a LE2 billion deal
Hadeer El-Mahdawy and Rana Mamdouh
| Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, along with other Mubarak-era tycoons, were detained for insider trading
tax evasion
40 min read
Bad apples? Meet the majority of Egypt’s World Bank private borrowers
Abdel Hamid Mekawy, Osama Diab and Salma Hussein
| Over half of World Bank-financed private sector projects in Egypt have shell companies in tax havens
Gamal Mubarak
18 min read
How every dollar became $12,000 in less than a decade for Gamal Mubarak
Osama Diab
| The story of how Gamal Mubarak turned every dollar he invested into US$11,884 in less than a decade.
Alaa Mubarak
11 min read
Behind the Panama Papers: The full story of the Mubarak sons’ tax-sheltered company
Hossam Bahgat
| The Panama Papers leaks published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Ahmed Ezz
6 min read
Egyptians who aren’t in jail this week
Isabel Esterman
| In the midst of a string of arrests of activists, media and cultural figures, it’s gotten a little
Alaa Mubarak
7 min read
A timeline of the Mubarak trial
Omar Said
| The “trial of the century” — in which former President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, the former
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Alaa Mubarak
2 min read
Prosecution appeals decision to release Alaa, Gamal Mubarak in corruption case
Alaa Mubarak
3 min read
Mubarak family appeal rejected, sentences upheld in presidential palaces case
Alaa Mubarak
3 min read
Court orders release of Gamal and Alaa Mubarak
Alaa Mubarak
3 min read
Mubarak taken back to Maadi military hospital, sons to Tora prison following sentencing
Alaa Mubarak
4 min read
As Sisi promises to release activists, Mubarak sons walk free
Alaa Mubarak
3 min read
Update: Mubarak retrial adjourned, defense to begin tomorrow
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Alaa Mubarak
Sorry for your loss
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| Gamal and Alaa Mubarak at Mostafa Bakry's mother's funeral.Gamal: "Sorry for your loss."
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