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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 ...
5 Years After Revolution, Activist Condemns Political Climate In Egypt NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Amr Hamzawy, visiting scholar at Stanford University, about the fifth anniversary of the ...
Mansour is an Egyptian democracy activist, who is also a senior program officer for Freedom House's Middle East and North Africa programs. World A Look At Egypt, One Year After Its Revolution ...
"Revolution is ongoing": On 5th anniversary of uprising, imprisoned Egyptian activist says fight for liberation will go on One form of tyranny has been replaced with another in Egypt, but, for ...
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… ...
Ahmed Maher's April 6 movement helped lead the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011. With Mubarak now out of jail, he says the revolution is back to square one, and could take a generation ...
In early 2005, Cairo-based computer engineer Saad Bahaar was trawling the internet when he came across a trio of Egyptian expatriates who advocated the use of non-violent techniques to overthrow ...
He died within moments, but has fast become the symbol of what Egyptian activists hopefully call "the second revolution." His mother, Nadia Faltas Beshara, grieved as any mother would.
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.
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. 5 ...