Rana Khazbak
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Rana is a graudate of American University in Cairo, where she studied political science and mass communications and media arts.
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Egypt has a new Interior Minister, but policemen, human rights activists and analysts agree that he will be unable to reform the notorious institution he now leads as long as the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) continues to refrain from...
A military court on Wednesday postponed the re-trial of blogger Maikel Nabil until 14 December. This is the eighth postponement since the retrial began on 1 November.
Nabil has been on a hunger strike for 106 days and is surviving on water and milk...
With only a few hundred protesters continuing the Tahrir Square sit-in, confrontations involving sticks and knives take place daily between those who want to open it up to traffic and those who are fighting against the move, believing that it would...
The North Cairo Court of Appeals on Monday refused to release blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah, who has been detained pending investigation since 30 October regarding his involvement in clashes, between protesters — most of whom were...
In the run-up to Egypt’s first post-Hosni Mubarak parliamentary elections, many feared the continued dominance of former regime remnants, owing to their experience in previous elections and their history of co-opting voters. It turns out they...
As voting in the first phase of parliamentary elections ends, privately owned newspapers are focusing on Islamist parties’ violations while state-owned dailies put a positive spin on the electoral process under the supervision of the Supreme...
An atmosphere of hope and determination dominates at the International Eye Hospital, where two activists and a journalist are being treated for severe eye injuries they sustained in Tahrir Square on Saturday.
Two people were killed and more than 900...
Approximately 2000 activists on Friday night vowed to stage a sit-in in Tahrir square following a mass rally in which tens of thousands of people participated.
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in Tahrir Square on Friday demanding the transfer...
Amid uncertainty over what will become of the cabinet’s supra-constitutional document, Islamist forces vow to protest in Tahrir Square on Friday. Some liberal, leftist and youth groups are also taking to the street, although pro-democracy...
A group of employees inside the Egyptian state TV and radio building, Maspero, are hoping to revolutionize the decades-old media institution that has served as the mouthpiece of dictators.
Two groups inside Maspero — the Media Revolutionaries...
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