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Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal ...
The protests that led to the Egyptian revolution last year were organized in part by an anonymous Facebook page administrator. When the police found out who he was, they arrested and interrogated him.
I was in Cairo three years ago when the revolution began. I had not thought the January 25th protests would lead to very much. But they did. Three years later, Egypt greets the dawn of the ...
Ten years on from the day when many believed the revolution had achieved its goals, these have still not been met. Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has severely restricted protests since he ...
According to Mastercard’s New Payment Index 2022, 67% of Egyptians increased their use of digital payment methods during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
He is one of the key organizers of the protests that have rocked Egypt. The man said Khaled's death was definitely a catalyst for the people's revolution. The disturbing image of Khaled's broken ...
TikTok has given ordinary users in Egypt unprecedented visibility, in some cases allowing them to challenge social norms, ...
“Something very interesting happened in the summer of 2010,” Eltahawy continues, “six months before the revolution began. People have died because of police torture in Egypt for many year ...
The resumption of a hunger strike by the Egyptian mother of Alaa Abd el-Fattah highlights the complexity of cases involving ...
One advantage of this stark shift in topics is that a lot of the content material was reminiscent of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, and discussions of the chants used by protesters made me think of the ...
Forgetfulness is the national disease of Egypt. But a new generation, born from the revolution that erupted during the Arab Spring, refuses to forget and insists on recording everything and anything.
The story of the Egyptian Labour Corps can help to resituate the 1919 revolution in the context of the British Empire and the First World War (Supplied by author) In her exciting new book Egypt ...