About Us

What we are trying to do

We write about what touches a citizen directly: the legislation that changes their budget, the law that governs their complaint, the service they queue for. We explain how the state works rather than simply relaying what it announces, and we trace a rumour to its source rather than repeating it.

We publish in nine languages because what happens in Egypt matters to people outside it: investors, researchers, migrants, visitors, and anyone who reads about the region in journalism that never asks the people who live there.

How our work is produced

Articles are produced by an AI system operating under human editorial supervision. Nothing is published without passing through a documented editorial workflow, and no legal or fact-check piece goes out without an additional review.

We disclose this at the foot of every article. The disclosure is not an apology: a reader is entitled to know how what they are reading was made, and that knowledge is part of their ability to hold us to account.

The desks

• Fact-check — we verify circulating claims and issue a reasoned verdict backed by evidence anyone can re-examine.
• Legislation and the Senate — what is debated in parliament and what it means in practice for people who do not read the official gazette.
• Law and your rights — the procedures a citizen actually needs, written in their language rather than a clerk’s.
• Voice of the Citizen — readers’ reports and complaints, each with a reference number to track it.
• That's Wrong — everyday habits we call minor whose consequences are not.
• Plus health, science, family, children, tourism, sport, culture, world and causes.

How readers take part

Any reader can send a complaint, a suggestion, a story or a question through the Voice of the Citizen page and receives a reference number to follow its status.

Through Citizen Lens they can attach a photograph, subject to an explicit rights declaration. Every submitted photo is reviewed before publication and credited to the person who took it.

What we do not do

• We do not publish AI-generated images that imitate press photography — the reasoning is in our AI disclosure.
• We use no third-party trackers or analytics; our readership measurement is aggregate and builds no profile of anyone.
• We do not delete a published piece to hide a mistake — we correct it and announce the correction.