An ambiguous architectural form has been erected in the center of Rabea al-Adaweya Square, which housed a sit-in held by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi for six weeks before…
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…
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…
In a report documenting state violence following the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the New-York based Human Rights Watch concluded that the…
A year on, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights has published a report (June 2014) documenting state responsibility for the violence that…
A 12-year-old boy was killed on Friday during violence that erupted nationwide pursuant to protests marking the six-month anniversary of the violent…
The minister of transitional justice, Mohamed Amin al-Mahdi, has ordered a fact-finding mission to investigate all incidents of violence that have occurred…
The Health Ministry’s forensic department submitted on Thursday medical reports on the casualties of the brutal dispersal of two major pro-Muslim Brotherhood…
The South Giza Prosecution has extended the detention of Salafi figure Hazem Salah Abu Ismail and three Muslim Brotherhood figures for a further 15 days pending investigation,…
«Mission accomplished, as far as the authorities are concerned. Rabea al-Adaweya is gone. When the presidency announced that mediation with the Muslim Brotherhood had failed, Al-Azhar…»
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