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The People’s Assembly (PA) has been under intense scrutiny since the first session of the post-Mubarak body on 23 January, but even more so since a special session was called in the wake of the Port Said stadium tragedy on 1 February. The...
As the dust settles on four days of clashes between protesters and the police around the Interior Ministry, students and activists are preparing for a different form of protest on Saturday, the day that will also commemorate the fall of President...
I watched endless re-runs of the final moments of the Ahly–Masry game in Port Said in a restaurant, on a muted television. Silent images of a man triumphantly carried on someone’s shoulders and hurriedly put down as hordes of men fill...
During the brief calm of a prayer-time ceasefire, as an imam delivered the Friday sermon in front of a cordon of riot police, a group of protestors gathered to discuss the most recent events that have reignited violence in downtown Cairo.
Protester...
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the Ahly Club in Zamalek Thursday to protest the deaths of at least 71 people in violence at a football match in Port Said Wednesday night. The crowd plans to march to the People’s...
Today’s papers highlight the low turnout for Shura Council elections, giving the Egypt's upper house of Parliament little attention compared with the coverage that was dedicated to the People’s Assembly elections.
State-owned Al-...
While tens of thousands gathered in Tahrir Square on Wednesday chanting against military rule, pro-military groups held celebrations in Abbasseya.
In Abbasseya, where a series of demonstrations in support of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed...
There was almost a party atmosphere on Maglis al-Shaab Street, where the Parliament building is located, this morning. Men carrying bouquets of flowers and mini-Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) flags danced in a circle before launching into...
Former Mubarak regime figures are leading the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces into “more confrontations” with civil society, Egyptian NGOs said in a joint statement Wednesday.
“We will allow the Ministry of Social...
Almost a year after the 25 January revolution and its central call for an end to police abuses in Egypt, human rights defenders have never been busier.
The past year saw at least one major confrontation per month between protesters and security...
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In 2010, Abdel Moneim Saeed, then the chairperson of state mouthpiece Al-Ahram, oversaw an outrageous bit of Photoshopping on the newspaper’s front cover, when US President Barack Obama was replaced with Hosni Mubarak at the head of a group of...
During the particularly hair-raising moments of the revolution, when some of the popular committees manning checkpoints on the streets were taking their jobs extremely seriously and matters were more than a touch vigilante, I crossed paths with one...
It is a motley crew that finds shelter in Tahrir Square these days. On the afternoon of 7 April, a man at a tea stand wanted to see off a youth and so threw a glass mug at him. It missed the youth and hit someone next to him, shattering into tiny...
Commenting on a Brotherhood statement saying “We will not be in Tahrir on the revolution anniversary,” a friend wrote on Facebook, “You weren't in Tahrir on the original 25 January either.”
The Muslim Brotherhood’s...
While I was outside a polling station waiting to bother voters while covering the referendum, a man sidled over to me.
He was unusually tall, his height accentuated by the straight line of his blue galabeya, and was wearing heavy rimmed 1960s-type...
The past two weeks, since Morsy announced his Hitler powers, have been the bleakest since the revolution began.
The day after Morsy’s Constitutional Declaration, the attorney general held an emergency meeting and opponents of the decree...
Cairo Airport new terminal makes its visitors feel slightly Lilliputian, with its lofty ceilings and ginormous escalators suspended in space.
On Friday, the effect was compounded because of the terminal's emptiness. There was a small...
Yesterday afternoon I sat on the road in the middle of Tahrir Square next to fresh graffiti calling for the ousting of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Never has cold concrete felt so good.
The day began and ended in Cairo’s central square....
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