With three of the presidential hopefuls from 2012 languishing in jail pending trials, and a fourth deceased, the political plans and presidential ambitions of most of the remaining candidates remain…
Mada Masr speaks with Joshua Stacher, assistant professor of political science at Kent State University, about the political steps Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi needs to take as he prepares…
Amr was on his way to buy groceries from the supermarket when he disappeared. “We tried calling him for hours, and then eventually his phone was switched off,” says Amr’s…
The crowd that gathered at the bombed Cairo Security Directorate on Friday January 24 chanted anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans, calling for the execution of former President Mohamed Morsi. But the Brotherhood,…
Standing in a soundproof glass cage, deposed President Mohamed Morsi made his second public appearance since his July ouster on Tuesday in the first session of what his lawyers described…
Perhaps the people happiest with humankind's failure to turn the sci-fi legend of time machines into reality are Egypt's policemen. Three years ago, and more specifically by the dawn of…
The Muslim Brotherhood appears to be losing its grip on many of Egypt’s professional syndicates, which it has dominated for over two decades. Most recently the Brotherhood was voted out…
On January 28, 2011, Mohamed Soliman stood between protesters and police forces in Ramses Square and screamed “peaceful.” The next thing he remembers, people around him yelled that a protester…
The cab that took me to downtown Cairo on Saturday had a torso-sized Egyptian flag rising from the middle of its hood. I asked the driver if he wasn’t worried…
“This is the first step along the road,” a smiling young man sings in the video for “Inzil wa sharek” (Go down and take part), a song paid for by…
January 23, 2014 Dear Lina, Adly Mansour is on TV. My father tells me, “It isn't as bad as you think.” I sit begrudgingly to listen, but the tag-line…
In early June, when I was writing an article about Tamarod (or “Rebel,” a grassroots initiative that campaigned for former President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster), I found that it wasn’t the…
Graffiti for two .. Alaa and Douma (1) I know that despair is treason but the revolutionary in my country — even if he’s a sinless prophet — when he…
An early morning bombing outside the Cairo Security Directorate building shook the capital's Abdeen neighborhood on Friday, killing four and injuring dozens more, according to the government. Large crowds gathered at the…
On July 3, the “We are all Khaled Saeed” Facebook page posted a transcription of Colonel General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's decree removing former President Mohamed Morsi from power. After that,…
Walking into Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the January 25 revolution in 2011, you could hear a single chant being echoed throughout the square that called for the…
To Mona & Sanaa: I miss you a lot, although I see you more when I'm in jail than when I'm free. Maybe because when I'm out of jail, I'm…
Following several steps to tighten its grip on Egypt’s mosques, the Ministry of Endowments has unexpectedly decided to shift the affiliation of Al-Azhar mosque, placing it under the auspices of…
In 2006, a group of judges agitated to demand an investigation of the 2005 elections fraud, opening up the tumultuous question of the judiciary’s independence. The movement had a loud…
For the first time, the results of the referendum seem to be in favor of the Coptic community, whose voices were drowned out in other polls, although many Copts in…
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