Features/Interviews

In December 2010, Egypt Independent spoke to different political pundits to probe them for their 2011 predictions as part of…

A darling of the left, Noam Chomsky is well-known for his articulate criticisms of US foreign policy. The American intellectual…

In a spacious newsroom divided by pillars, reporters, focused on their computers, sit at a round table. Around the corner,…

“The army and the people were never one hand,” is the provocative title of a blogpost by Maikel Nabil, who…

I was detained by the military at around 7 pm last Tuesday for walking home. I must have been walking…

In its early days, the 25 January revolution was like a bracing gale of change whose winds blustered through the…

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, is adopting a popular, non-violent resistance strategy in a move aimed at gaining international…

There are now not one, but four walls in downtown Cairo. Huge cubes of round-edged cement are clumsily stacked on…

During the military council’s press conference on Monday about the recent violence around the cabinet building, Major General Adel Emara…

As the violence in Cairo enters its fourth day, the military’s brutality, as recorded on video, stands in contrast with…