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…
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…
A day after the bloody dispersal of two Islamist sit-ins by security forces left hundreds dead, the Al-Iman Mosque in Nasr City had been converted into a makeshift morgue, where…
We reached the Rabea al-Adaweya sit-in at 7 am on Wednesday, about an hour after the police and Armed Forces launched their coordinated attack to disperse the six-week long demonstration. South of Nasr Street, tens…
On her way home one night in June, Sherif Atef Abu Hamza’s mother was pulled out of her taxi by a group of angry pedestrians, who physically and verbally assaulted her in the traffic of Tahrir Street.…
After former President Hosni Mubarak’s fall, non-Islamist political parties formed that self-identified as civil and democratic forces, and defined themselves largely in opposition against the interim military rulers and then…
After being held for 11 days without charges, six Syrian cousins, aged between 14 and 22, were forced to leave Egypt where they had arrived a month earlier from war-torn…
Egypt’s military does not want to get involved in politics. Or so it says. These words have been repeated ad nauseam since early July, when former President Mohamed Morsi was deposed by…
The ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated President Mohamed Morsi has left the nation starkly divided down lines popularly described as either “fascist” or “terrorist.” The latter accuse the former of siding…
Egypt’s finest young environmentalists convened downtown to attend the second Iftar of Icecairo, an eco-hub that fosters green technology in Egypt. In between mouthfuls of macaroni bechamel and salad, 12…
Following Friday’s dramatic violence when over 80 mostly Muslim Brotherhood members were killed in clashes with the police and plain clothed armed men, many wondered about the new government. That…
With its one-month anniversary around the corner and attacks on its participants only increasing, tensions are high at the Rabea al-Adaweya Muslim Brotherhood sit-in, defiance now sharing the air with…
Egypt’s last president did not rule the country long enough to have had any streets named after him. He was ousted so quickly that there were no Mohamed Morsi streets…
I had to go twice to the sit-in of the Muslim Brotherhood near Cairo University by Nahda Square in Giza to understand the dynamics of what is happening there. The…
The Cairo Court of Appeal is considering a request submitted by Egypt’s newly appointed Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat to temporarily freeze assets of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders, as well as…
Perhaps it won’t be long before deposed President Mohamed Morsi is likened to former President Mohamed Naguib, both remembered as short-lived, first post-revolution presidents. Naguib was the first president after…
Amr Darrag is a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood who most recently served as minister of planning and international cooperation in former Prime Minister Hesham Qandil’s Cabinet. He formerly…
When Hazem al-Beblawi’s nomination for prime minister was announced this week, it may be remembered as another mark of the Nour Party’s rising power in the context of the Egyptian…
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