Abdel-Rahman Hussein
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Abdel-Rahman is a journalist and the author of the Sibilant Egypt blog
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Privately owned Al-Tahrir newspaper leads with the headline “Virus in Mubarak’s brain.” A medical source inside the center where the former president currently resides told the paper that Mubarak caught the virus last week (which...
A proposal has been put forward for an agreement between all political parties and blocs to allow certain agreed-upon candidates to run virtually unopposed in the parliamentary elections slated for November.
The proposal is the brainchild of Wahid...
On Tuesday, Egypt became the focus of the world’s attention when the country served as the logistical center of a prisoner exchange deal that was five years in the making. One captive Israeli soldier is being exchanged for 1027 Palestinian...
The country’s main secular coalition, dubbed the Egyptian Bloc, has yet to finalize its electoral list for parliamentary elections, scheduled to begin 28 November, as the candidate nomination process draws to a close.
The Egyptian Bloc, which...
The fallout from the Maspero events continues in today’s papers as people try to come to terms with how the military opened fire and ran over Coptic protesters in front of the state TV building Sunday.
Not that you would see that version of...
As the country continues to reel from events in Maspero on 9 October, many people in the streets of Downtown Cairo steadfastly refuse to believe that the military was at fault in the clashes that saw 25 killed.
As Copts marched towards Maspero, the...
The "Battle of the Camel" trial has been adjourned until December 19. During a recess in today's hearing, the court received an order from the Appeals Court regarding Mortada Mansour's request to remove the presiding judge, so...
The “Battle of the Camel” court case, in which 25 individuals affiliated with the Mubarak regime are accused of attacking and killing protesters on 2 and 3 February during the 18-day uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak,...
The Battle of the Camel trial hearings resumed on Saturday at Cairo Criminal Court. Twenty-five figures of the outgoing Mubarak regime are accused of funding and planning a bloody attack by a camel and horse riders on pro-democracy...
The celebrations for the 6 October anniversary have, over the past three decades, always been overblown, with the emphasis on the airstrike that was led by the then commander of the air forces, Hosni Mubarak.
In the first celebration of the 1973 war...
Opinion articles
Events of the past few weeks since Morsy issued his November decree can be described as — to appropriate British parlance — an utter “omnishambles.” Midnight decrees rescinding previous ones, 2 am about-turns on decisions...
It’s been a week chock-full of news, which meant the latest bout of downtown clashes has not taken center stage as it usually would. Instead, this news item fought for a place amidst a flurry of breaking news: a military attack on Qursaya, the...
I used to get bullied at school when I was younger, by an older boy who (through the haze of sepia-tinted memory) was almost twice my size. It wasn’t excessive or anything like that and didn’t happen everyday. It was rather banal and...
A population does not pay with the lives of its citizens to rid itself of one authoritarian, unaccountable form of rule to have it replaced by another of the same ilk, no matter how “interim” its status.
As the referendum for...
