Mariam Rizk
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Egypt Independent

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Students and staff at the American University in Cairo (AUC) resumed normal university life on Tuesday, as a compromise between student protesters and the administration appeared to end a long standing dispute over student tuition fees. After a...
In an escalation of events, students closed the gates of the American University in Cairo for the third time on Sunday and the administration decided to suspend all the university’s activities until further notice, as allegations of violence...
A dispute between the American University in Cairo (AUC) administration and students over a proposed 7 percent hike in tuition fees led to a second blockade of campus gates on Thursday. Later in the day, AUC President Lisa Anderson met student...
  A number of journalists, writers, actors and political figures held a sit-in on Wednesday denouncing the recent constraints put on journalists and the detention of Islam Afifi, the editor-in-chief of the independent Al-Dostour newspaper, who...
The Nasr City police station crisis, in which lawyers said they were assaulted by policemen, has highlighted the problem of unscrutinized police violations, according to several lawyers. Clashes erupted on 5 July between policemen and lawyers at the...