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A foreign journalist in Cairo, whose work appears in several prestigious publications was cornered near her house by a man in plain clothes who held her against the wall and…
In the nearly three months since Nadia Hammadeh fled war-torn Damascus to Cairo, her children were refused enrollment in a public school, her husband was arrested from their home by…
The year is 2048. Donia Nour awakes from her nightly sleep along with greater Egypt’s other 124 million citizens as the call for dawn prayer erupts into their minds.
Haytham Mohamadeen is not happy. He has caught — or rather, been given — a cold. “It was the district attorney who did it!” he proclaims, nasally. The labor…
The halls of the Shura Council are host to the work of the committee tasked with amending the 2012 Constitution, initially drafted in 2012 by a predominantly Islamist committee, the…
We figured, if we’re all going to be cooped up in our houses, we might as well be cooped up in a music studio where we can create, jam rather…
About a month after his 27th birthday, Ibrahim Mostafa al-Ezzab responded to a call. For weeks the Egyptian Ambulance Organization had been training for the planned dispersal of major Muslim…
Despite the opulence of our cuisine, Egyptians favor its Lebanese counterpart for its lightness and unique flavors. Recently two new, very different additions have graced Cairenes with Lebanese dishes and innovative recipes: Ayadina in Heliopolis and Taboon in Zamalek.…
In this Q&A , Amr Darrag, secretary of foreign relations with the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, speaks of a group persisting despite a wave of crackdowns and arrests,…
Adam Rasgon came to Cairo from California in June on a Fulbright fellowship to study Arabic at a prestigious language institution. The 22-year-old American student intended to stay the year.…
Grief and anger echoed in the streets leading to the graveyard as hundreds marched in the funeral procession for Asmaa al-Beltagy in Cairo — just a few meters away from…
BENI SUEF — Childish handwriting. Ripped out sinks in the bathroom. The smell of burning. “There is no God but Allah, and Mohamed is his prophet” scrawled on the walls.…
That popular culture is an expression of the voice of the people is one of the main tenets of “Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial…
With the country at a political impasse in the aftermath of the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi last month, a standoff also looms over Egypt’s university campuses as student…
Security crackdowns against two labor strikes — at the Suez Steel Company and Scimitar Petroleum Company — and a potential one at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company in Mahalla,…
On the morning of November 22, 2012, Hamas and Israel signed a ceasefire agreement, brokered by Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which put an end to eight days of the worst cross-border…
MINYA - It was the same scene everywhere: blackened walls, floors littered with detritus, empty spaces where everything was ripped out and taken. When police forces dispersed the Rabea al-Adaweya…
Nationalism in Egypt is nothing new. But its current resurgence in the country’s cultural output would certainly cause concern for George Orwell, had he been alive today. “Nationalism,” wrote Orwell,…
Virginie Nguyen shares her testimonial and visual documentation of the Ramses violence on August 16, as she was covering it with fellow photographers and journalists. When we arrived in Ramses…
The protest at Ramses Square was large and exuberant. A group of young men bounced up and down in a circle to the rhythm of a tabla — ultras style…
