Since the fall semester began, a highly radicalized Islamist student movement at the University of Al-Azhar has been involved in a violent standoff with heavy-handed security forces, turning the oldest…
Egypt’s 2014 constitutional referendum in pictures First day of voting: Tuesday January 14, 2014 Women line up to vote in Mounira, Cairo. Voting papers are stamped by a judge at a…
At 10.30 am there were more people gathered around the Sudan Street courthouse in Imbaba then there were queuing up to vote in the polling station 500 metres away. The…
On the way to a Heliopolis polling station, a neighbor waves, “are you going to vote?” Before waiting for an answer, he quickly adds, half menacingly, half jokingly, “don’t you…
The 2013 draft constitution contains a number of provisions which some feared could be used to curb labor rights and freedoms. Other articles could be used to violate basic, internationally…
Two days before voting in the constitutional referendum was set to begin, the Strong Egypt Party announced that it would halt its campaign for a “no” vote due to the…
Since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians have witnessed the formation of three constitutional assemblies and have been called on to vote on two draft constitutions (as well…
PART ONE: THE STATE Article 1 The Arab Republic of Egypt is a sovereign state, united and indivisible, of which no part shall be conceded. Its system is democratic republic,…
For those Egyptians who tend to view the Nile as a limitless resource, Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam has been a wake-up call. In May, Ethiopia announced it would divert the flow…
As Ashraf Thabet, an official from the Salafi Nour Party, was going through a number of talking points on the draft constitution, the audience was listening quietly. But when he…
On billboards that dot the country’s highways and roads, and on TV and radio airwaves, Egyptian citizens are surrounded by advertising campaigns urging them to vote for the draft constitution…
With the constitutional referendum approaching, many non-Islamist parties that supported the military’s ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated President Mohamed Morsi are still scrambling to define their positions on the charter. While…
The December 24 bomb attack in Mansoura didn’t just leave the security directorate building there in rubble. The following day, the government’s decision to brand the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist…
The flicker of hope for the student movement that was kindled at the start of 2013 was quickly overshadowed by deadly violence, leaving in its wake a trail of blood…
Among many of the perceived differences between the January 25, 2011 and the June 30, 2013 mobilizations is a certain perception of the state. In 2011, in the minds of…
In the early hours of Tuesday, December 24, an explosion rocked the city of Mansoura. Shaken out of their sleep by the blast, residents rushed to the streets as ambulance…
Every once in a while, we get together to chat about our work and our evolving and mutating relation with it. We tend to turn these conversations into a public…
As the year closes, Mada Masr remembers the moments of 2013. Through these images, by photographer Virginie Nguyen, we remember 12 months of tumultuous political events in Egypt, in which violence…
Talks between the government and the Muslim Brotherhood are under way, and are focused on finding a legal exit for the now-imprisoned leadership of the banned group, source told Mada…
It was around this time of the year, in 2011, that we met Bassem Mohsen. A battle between protesters and security was raging near the Cabinet building. People were standing…
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