Alastair Beach is a freelance reporter based in Cairo who has worked for a variety of publications, including the <em>Independent</em>, the <em>Sunday Telegraph</em> and <em>Spectator</em>. He was previously based in Syria.

The Circus Continues

[caption id="attachment_55231148" align="alignnone" width="620" caption=" Anti-Omar Suleiman posters in Cairo, Egypt"][/caption] It has been an…

Oil Men Eye a Land of Black Gold

[caption id="attachment_55230679" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Motorists queue to fill up with fuel at a Cairo petrol station due to a…

Ghosts of Heliopolis

[caption id="attachment_55230314" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Cairo War Memorial Cemetery "][/caption] Deep in the heart of Cairo's…

Egypt Mourns Pope Shenouda

[caption id="attachment_55230035" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptian Coptic Christians carry the coffin of Coptic Pope Shenouda III"][…

Egypt's Hijacked Revolution

[caption id="attachment_55229965" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A demonstration in Tahrir Square against the expansion of Egypt&#039;s…

All the President's Men

[caption id="attachment_55229580" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Amr Moussa is the frontrunner for the Egyptian Presidency, but will the…

Egypt's Second Half

[caption id="attachment_55229278" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptian protesters run for cover from a teargas canister fired by riot…

I is for Insurrection

[caption id="attachment_55229127" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Egyptians in Cairo walk past graffiti of Field Marshal Tantawi"][/caption]…

Accusations Fly

[caption id="attachment_55226080" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A line of barbed wire stands between the increasingly frustrated Egyptian…