Features/Interviews

While the country is poised to embark on its final phase of parliamentary elections, questions remain as to how the…

The success of the 25 January uprising in toppling Hosni Mubarak was made possible by industrial actions in key sectors…

Since the first Day of Revolt on 25 January, developments in Egypt have moved at a dizzying pace. There have…

In 2011, The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) sent the Egyptian people 93 letters via its official Facebook…

On the rooftop of the devastated Egyptian Scientific Institute, a handful of soldiers stood in mid-December in their camouflaged uniforms,…

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…