Sarah Carr is a former journalist who now runs a small gym and wrangles various pets in Cairo, Egypt.
This article contains strong language and graphic sexual content. Hend (not her real name), an outspoken political activist, is used to being watched and threatened. She rose to prominence during…
Shubra al-Kheima is at the end of the line. From the lofty vista of its metro station, it is as if a giant broom had swept away the unwanted detritus…
For no discernible reason, attendees of the April 6 Youth Movement presser were made to wait outside the Lawyers Syndicate building before it started, where they were serenaded by a…
Tahrir Square on January 25, 2014 said everything you need to know about what others have said about Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Egyptian families descended on the…
Every Thursday Mada Masr invites someone interesting to the office on the promise of a hearty and fulfilling breakfast prepared by Mada receptionist Osama. It is a ruse that has proved wildly…
If there is one song that in years to come will immediately conjure up the heady days of June 30, 2013 and everything that has happened since, it is "Tislam…
«There is a nice sense of camaraderie when citizens are forced to experience Egyptian bureaucracy»
«There has been much anger and many public expressions of shock at the prison sentences handed down to three Al Jazeera English journalists on Monday. It’s a high…»
«Death is the carbon paper on which the events of the past three years were etched, the constant uninvited guest, the lingering shadow. From the very…»
«I (very) briefly grappled with whether to vote, or boycott this referendum but after the experience of covering the Sisi popularity contest Tuesday, I will not…»
«Lots of comparisons are being made between the current mood and goings on in Egypt, and the country as it was before the revolution. Everything is…»
«Writer Maria Golia once described Cairo as a city held together by rubber bands in its teetering chaos. It is an analogy that applies to the…»
Keeping in the spirit of the great deities, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hasn't been seen in the flesh at a single live event…
While deposed President Mohamed Morsi's supporters began marches around Cairo and as their opponents took to the streets in response to an army…
Protesters calling for President Mohamed Morsi’s resignation descended on the Ministry of Defense on Sunday afternoon, in what is their most direct…
Thousands assembled at the Rabea al-Adaweya Mosque on Sunday afternoon, guarding the stronghold of the Islamists’ counter-protest against mass demonstrations demanding President…
