Abdel-Rahman Hussein
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Abdel-Rahman is a journalist and the author of the Sibilant Egypt blog
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As ousted President Hosni Mubarak entered the courtroom on a stretcher to face charges in the deaths of revolution protesters, people responded to a moment many of them imagined they would never see.
ShaimaStreet on Twitter wrote, “Rejoice,...
The story dominating almost all of today’s newspapers is the forcible clearance of the Tahrir Square sit-in by the military. Almost all the newspapers note that this was undertaken with much popular support.
The newly launched Al-Tahrir...
The journalists of BBC Arabic are continuing a six-day strike against the management for what a representative has described as treating them like slaves. The strike began on 29 July.
The staff has railed against a change in their rota that means...
Despite a court order issued by the supreme administrative court on 27 July to reopen all the streets around the US and British embassies in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo, military officers guarding the area, store owners and residents...
When Dream TV presenter Dina Abdel Rahman was summarily dismissed from her morning show “Sabah Dream” last Sunday, it raised fears among many Egyptians that even after Mubarak, the private media may still be bullied by the ruling powers...
Thursday’s papers are full of ominous reports about the upcoming Friday protest in Tahrir. “The most dangerous million man march goes to the square tomorrow,” reads the headline of the privately owned Al-Shorouk, predicting the...
In a climate where suspicion of foreign motives are exacerbated, a remark by the US Ambassador-Designate to Egypt Anne Patterson at her Senate confirmation hearing sparked a debate about foreign funding of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and...
Egypt's political state of flux, especially at the ministerial level, will adversely affect efforts to establish a viable foreign policy with the newly formed nation of South Sudan.
The new country, born after a referendum saw a 98% majority opt...
The ongoing cabinet reshuffle has prompted enough confusion without the possibility that Prime Minister Essam Sharaf may not stick around to organize things. Allaying such fears, cabinet spokesperson Mohamed Hegazy is quoted in many of Wednesday...
Amira Mikhail, half Egyptian and half American, has lived in Egypt for the majority of her life but, as she puts it, her “looks took on the fair skin and colored eyes of [her] mother.” As a result, even when she holds out her Egyptian ID...
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...
