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Offering no introduction, Alaa Saad marches up to an elderly street vendor and says, “let’s say you and I have conflicting viewpoints regarding a sensitive issue. Shouldn’t we try to talk our differences over, instead of reaching...
Protesters who took to the streets on Friday to decry President Mohamed Morsy and what they called the Muslim Brotherhood's control of the state have mostly been forced out of downtown, eyewitnesses say.
After a spate of fistfights and stone...
Despite the balloons incorporated into its logo, the privately owned daily Al-Tahrir finds little to celebrate on the first day of Eid al-Fitr, with the majority of the independent daily's headlines revolving around last Sunday's...
The trials and tribulations of the past 16 months have boiled down to what seemed to be a fairly unremarkable day, according to the independent press. Al-Tahrir’s headline acknowledges in its headline the low national turnout, while Al-Shorouk...
For fans of dark comedy, Monday’s papers are an essential read.
“Mubarak: the president of the Republic of Tora,” jeers Al-Wafd’s headline, above images of the former president sulking in his gurney and of his sons behind...
It’s been a rough decade for neo-Luddites, especially the filmmakers among them. Those for whom the whir of a projector evokes immediate feelings of pure bliss have had to suffer as theaters worldwide continue to convert to film-less, disk-...
“And the revolution youth have found their leader,” announces Al-Tahrir, the headline appearing over a page-wide image of an open-armed Hamdeen Sabbahi. The Nasserist presidential candidate, who surpassed expectations during the...
With a knife between his teeth, Salah Mahrous leaps down from the wall, an Amr Moussa banner trailing behind him. “The elections are over,” the frowning 19-year-old says, even though the polls aren’t set to close for several...
“It’s 10 pm,” one of three galabeya-wearing men huffs as they make their way towards the exit. “I’m not spending my night out here.” Mohamed Selim al-Awa is an hour and a half late to his last rally, and...
Following last week’s spate of legislative measures, Parliament managed to keep it together for another round of sessions despite having issues as weighty as police reformation, farmers’ rights, and an escalating health crisis on their...
