Three years, two overthrown presidents and a lot of “million-man marches” in between. But between the ouster of Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013…
Sure, the national anthem’s great and everything — but for an entire generation of Egyptians there’s another song that more accurately captures that first realization of nationalistic awareness. At 11-minutes…
Since the events of June 30, divisive fault lines have emerged within the country’s trade unions and professional syndicates, with leading members of these associations taking sides with the new…
While the stock market reacted positively to the issuing of the July 8 Constitutional Declaration, and some rejoiced at this definitive step leading the country away from deposed President Mohamed…
For at least four months, Egypt’s legal framework will be the constitutional declaration issued by Interim President Adly Mansour on July 8. The 33-article declaration has been designed to provide…
Mohamed Soleiman is a resident of Masoura, a neighborhood in the Sinai border town Rafah. Last Saturday at dawn, he was awoken by the sounds of shooting next to his…
It’s not clear whether Mahmoud Sobhy was the first person killed on Friday. What is clear is that he was one of at least 30 who died in protests that…
The question of what to label the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi by a military intervention following massive protests looms in newsrooms. This including Mada Masr’s. While coup and revolution…
As a power battle simmers to the brim between the military and the presidency, exchanging messages in the final hours before the deadline set by the Armed Forces, anesthesiologist Abeer…
Millions of Egyptians are continuing to take to the streets. They are calling on President Mohamed Morsi to resign and to hold early presidential elections. At the same time many…
Shortly after the outbreak of Turkey’s Gezi Park protests, Egyptian public forums were flooded with a variety of expressions that drew parallels between the respective situations in each of the…
We didn't spend a long time savoring what it means to be unemployed. After our dramatic layoffs prompted by the sudden scaling down of Egypt Independent, a paper we worked…
From the presidential palace’s window, the view ahead of the planned June 30 protests is different. The protests, set to challenge the one-year rule of President Mohamed Morsi, alongside the…
A few meters away from raging battles between protesters and security forces on Qasr al-Nil Bridge were dozens of children playing Chutes and Ladders. At the neighboring Mugamma administrative building in Tahrir Square, a play area…
A 40-year-old woman walks into Al-Shohadaa metro station in the heart of Cairo, lugging a heavy pack of documents bearing the Tamarod (Rebel) campaign logo. As she enters the crowded…
Koshary and sweat mix with diligence and optimism in the downtown headquarters of the Tamarod campaign, a tiny and stuffy flat with few windows. The office had been firebombed the…
On a Friday afternoon, taxi driver Ashraf Abbas drinks tea over the hood of his car with his colleagues. In the absence of customers, they decided to stop wasting precious…
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