One year ago, Ahmed Abdou met with 15 young men in the Kefaya opposition movement’s headquarters. They were brainstorming ideas for a petition that would call for the civil impeachment…
At 9 am, activists, lawyers and families start coming to the Heliopolis courthouse for the first hearing of 24 people accused of protesting and vandalizing public property. Erase the year, and…
“Each one of us, after this experience of the revolution, has something to say,” said Sanaa Seif, on February 18, 2011, on Democracy Now, in response to a question by Sharif…
Many speak professionally of Yara Sallam, 28, as a skilled lawyer and distinguished researcher, but some also speak of her impressive passion, one that would stay with her despite everything. …
A contentious draft law governing parliamentary elections is expected to be one of the first major challenges for newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to overcome. A major bone…
On the front door of Mahienour al-Massry’s family home in Alexandria, a single yellow sticker hangs. The bold black letters on top read, in Arabic, “No to Military Trials for…
Since his release on bail in March, Alaa Abd El Fattah has been putting things in order before his inevitable return to jail. He’s had too many brushes with the…
Five legal issues in the case of the Shura Council protest have emerged throughout the development of the case since November 2013 and which have been flagged by the defendants’…
On April 16, a small group of protesters excitedly marched into Tahrir Square, only to be chased out again by police forces with tear gas minutes later. “Revolutionaries are in…
Before the turnout of 47.4 percent was officially announced by the Presidential Election Commission last week, there was a seeming anxiety in the quarters of now President-Elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. But the announcement…
The day before voting began in the presidential election, the road from Cairo to Mansoura was littered with signs for presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Almost every kiosk along the…
Voting was still open on the first day of the presidential election, and television presenters were already panicking over the noticeably low turnout. On Monday evening, talk show hosts turned…
Driving up to presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign headquarters through the picturesque streets of the upscale fifth settlement neighborhood, we were met by a massive gate of barbed wire…
Ahmed Khalaf was startled when he got a phone call from this reporter, because he expected news of arrest of fellow students on election day rather than an interview. “On…
Although he has not proposed any specific labor reforms, presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seems to be something of a working-class hero amongst laborers in the Delta city of Mahalla. Posters of Field Marshal Sisi can be…
In the Daher neighborhood, east of Cairo, signs and billboards in support of presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are abundant, just like everywhere else in the city. But not everyone…
With Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi poised to win the presidential election, a minority of young voters are still opting to vote for his rival Hamdeen Sabbahi — or boycott…
In the 2012 presidential elections, a little less than 5 million people voted for left-leaning journalist and long-time opposition figure Hamdeen Sabbahi. As he comes back to the polls in 2014 in…
Waiting for a chartered jet at Cairo Airport earlier this month, brothers Mostafa and Mahmoud Bakry schmoozed with a 50-odd crowd of journalists, entertainers, businessmen and campaigners for presidential candidate…
Electoral campaign posters for former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are abundant in every Egyptian town and city. Unprecedented in its size and scale, this electoral campaign is arguably the…
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