Abdel-Rahman Hussein
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Abdel-Rahman is a journalist and the author of the Sibilant Egypt blog
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Suez protesters who had been on a hunger strike in front of the governorate’s building were attacked by police in the early hours at the town’s police station on Tuesday, witnesses told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The incident began when one of...
Egypt’s new information minister, Osama Heikal, was worried before the 25 January revolution that any potential uprising in Egypt would turn violent as in Tunisia - something he did not want to see.
In an op-ed he penned on 24 January, a day...
A London coroner stated at an inquest on Wednesday that there was no evidence of suspicious circumstances regarding the death of an Egyptian diplomat, the UK newspaper the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.
Ayman Mohamed Fayed, 41, died 14 January...
While trials of former regime officials may seem like a positive step in the fight against corruption, Ashraf Ali al-Baroudy, the president of the High Court of Appeals, still has a concern: those government figures are in jail due to a popular...
At the behest of a senior ranking officer, a representative from State Security Investigation Services contacted television presenter Hala Sarhan of Dream TV in 2001 to urge her to “reconsider her direction” about airing an interview...
Many of today’s papers have the same story on the front page. Privately owned Al-Shorouk and Al-Wafd both run stories on the report Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy submitted to the interim cabinet about the events in Tahrir on Tuesday and...
Clashes erupted tonight between protesters and Central Security Forces (CSF) in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, with protesters throwing rocks and molotov cocktails while the CSF fired multiple rounds of tear gas.
The fighting began after several...
Bearded and balding, the elderly gentleman is delicately poised on his stool as he addresses the crowd in front of him. He will talk for hours and not tire; after all, he has fire in his belly.
The fire of belief that is. And that helps with the...
The mutterings and grumblings of activists and rights advocates about how the revolution has not brought about the complete change hoped for is the topic of an eloquent article penned by Amani Zaki in the opposition daily Al-Wafd.
Zaki bemoans the...
Tarek Abd al-Kader is the acting minister and head of the Media and Communications Sector at the Arab League. With over three decades at the institution, he has a unique perspective on its internal happenings and its effectiveness in the region. He...
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...
