For 33-year-old activist Hossam el-Hamalawy, though, Egypt's three-week youth revolution is by no means over — there remains a repressive state to be dismantled and workers who need to get their ...

Robert Siegel talks with Sherif Mansour about the events that have unfolded in the year since the Egyptian revolution began. Mansour is an Egyptian democracy activist, who is also a senior program ...

An Egyptian court ordered the removal of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah from the country's terrorism list on Monday, just over a week after his mother ended a prolonged hunger strike demanding his ...

Five years ago Thursday, Cairo’s Tahrir Square erupted in euphoric celebrations as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians danced, cheered, wept and fell to their knees in prayer on the night that… ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Amr Hamzawy, visiting scholar at Stanford University, about the fifth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution. He describes a political climate similar to five years ago.

A year after Egypt’s revolt, many are disappointed with the situation in the country.

The activism that helped bring about change in Egypt and the ouster of Hosni Mubarak from the presidency began long before the protests in Cairo's central Tahrir Square.

The ruling issued by Cairo’s Criminal Court said that investigations no longer showed evidence of Alaa Abdel Fattah’s ...

The protesters dug in, intent on forcing Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, the military leadership which has been running the country, to address the revolution’s initial grievance ...

Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country's 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind bars, walked free from prison Saturday following a presidential pardon.Douma, now 37 ...

Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening “We Live in Cairo,” now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, takes on new resonance in ...

Five years ago Thursday, Cairo’s Tahrir Square erupted in euphoric celebrations as hundreds of thousands of Egyptians danced, cheered, wept and fell to their knees in prayer on the night that ...