Egyptian people

There is an eerie calm in Cairo Tuesday, the day after supporters of former president Mohammed Morsi were killed by military troops. Just how long will this calm hold? Host Marco Werman talks with journalist Shahira Amin.

Egyptian political cartoonist Doaa Eladl is a rarity in political cartooning: she’s a woman. Her work has become more visible since the 2011 revolution in Egypt. We were curious what kind of images she’s been using to express Egyptians’ discontent with the government of Mohammed Morsi.

Egypt’s defense minister Tuesday called for a “national dialogue” to be held among the country’s warring political parties.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is meeting with the country’s judges in an attempt to defuse a growing crisis over his recent decision to take sweeping new powers.

In a country where a large part of the population struggles to make ends meet, a working class woman has skyrocketed to fame in post-revolutionary Egypt with a new kind of cooking show. Tara Todras-Whitehill reports from Cairo.