Abdel-Rahman Hussein
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Abdel-Rahman is a journalist and the author of the Sibilant Egypt blog
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ARISH — Fifty-eight candidates and 13 party lists face off Tuesday in the third round of People's Assembly elections in North Sinai.
The North Sinai constituency carries six seats: four for the list-based system and two for single-winner...
While the country is poised to embark on its final phase of parliamentary elections, questions remain as to how the “post-revolutionary” parliament will function and how it will differ from Mubarak-era parliaments.
For one, no one knows...
Violence erupted briefly in Tahrir Square on Thursday night after security forces responded to an argument between street vendors near the entrance to Talat Harb Street.
When security forces arrived carrying riot shields, the violence escalated,...
Some 300 protesters marched through downtown Cairo on Thursday evening to protest the incarceration of blogger Maikel Nabil.
The march began in Tahrir Square and ended at the Supreme Court and the offices of the public prosecutor, where protesters...
The ruling against virginity tests in military prisons dominates the front pages of Egypt’s independent press on Wednesday. Ibrahim had filed a case after being subjected to so-called virginity tests in a military prison while detained for...
As the violence in Cairo enters its fourth day, the military’s brutality, as recorded on video, stands in contrast with a statement on Monday from Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) member General Adel Omara claiming that troops are...
This blog was supposed to have been written for 17 December, but events in Cairo put it on the backburner, and indeed seem to provide a connecting thread to events on that same day a year ago.
I was never really one for commemorating my birthday....
The second of round of Egypt's People's Assembly elections starts today in nine governorates. And even though the high elections commission has banned candidates from campaigning two days prior to the elections, state-owned Al-Ahram reports...
After a stormy pre-election process that saw the Wafd Party join and leave the Freedom and Justice Party-led (FJP) Democratic Alliance, the former ran in the first round of People's Assembly elections on its own list. Faring poorly at the polls...
The cabinet of recently-appointed Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri was sworn in Wednesday, but many of the faces in the “new” cabinet are familiar officials promoted from within ministries in a move that some activists find at odds with...
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...
