There is a song midway through the new musical We Live in Cairo, which follows six American University of Cairo students during the Egyptian Revolution, that clicks with today’s student activists just ...
From January 25 to February 11, 2011, a revolutionary upsurge of the Egyptian working class toppled a decades-old US-backed dictatorship in the largest Arab country. In two weeks and three days of ...
On the 25 January each year, the family of Mostafa Ragab visit his grave in Suez. Killed by several bullets to the chest and head, Ragab, 21 and who worked in a cement factory, was the first casualty ...
The piecemeal nature of Manal Khaled’s self-produced feature is offset by the spirit of the film, with its cautious relevance to today. Ten years ago in January, the people of Egypt took to the ...
Ten years ago, between January 25 and February 11, 2011, a revolution of the Egyptian working class overthrew the US-backed dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak that had ruled the country for decades. Weeks ...
I will never forget the conversations I had with neighbours around a fire during the cold nights of January 2011, while we were guarding our building. On 28 January, known as the Friday of anger, ...
“Rules of the revolutionary square in Tahrir” Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy, Tahrir Square, 2011. All rights reserved. The seven-year anniversary of the 25 January ...
This piece was first published by Raseef22, an Arabic media platform, on January 25, 2021, and was written by Reem Mahmoud. It is published on Global Voices via a content-sharing agreement. If we were ...
Before tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters made history this month by breaking President Hosni Mubarak’s decades-long grip on power, many of Michele Pellam’s students at Boston’s Brighton High ...
A presidential election will be held in Egypt on 23 and 24 May 2012 (with a run-off on 16 and 17 June 2012, if necessary). It will be the second presidential election in Egypt's history (since 2005) ...
New York City Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani spent a summer in college in Egypt, where the self-described democratic socialist - who was not yet an American citizen - said he learned about ...
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