Latest in Tag: revolution Highlight
Latest in Tag: revolution
On hope and gratitude in 2013: the rock and the tide
I am not particularly enthusiastic about New Year’s Eve. My favourite in the last decade was in 2007/8; my wife and I watched a movie, and fell asleep at 11pm. That is usually the extent of my excitement on this night. But it seems that a lot of my dear friends take this evening rather seriously, …
A Year in Review: The Egyptian revolutionaries’ wish list for a Ministry of Interior revamp
Violations of the Ministry of Interior were a catalysts for the 25 January Revolution. However, activists’ hope for real change in the ministry during 2012 have been crushed.
A Year in Review: Not so long ago in a galaxy not so far away
A serious analysis of the ins and outs of the political alliances and coalitions that will contest the upcoming parliamentary elections
Prosecutor general appeals release order of Mubarak-era politicians
Public Prosecutor Tala’at Abdallah appeals release orders of Safwat El-Sherif and Anas El-Feky
March in memory of the Cabinet clashes
Protesters struggle with emotions as they remember the brutal clashes that took place at the Cabinet Office last year
Hundreds of Sudanese in protest call for ‘revolution’
“Killing students is the killing of the nation!”
The Cabinet Office case files
Daily News Egypt and Amnesty International remember the victims of the 2011 Cabinet Office clashes
Revolution revisited
Adel Heine’s weekly column
In Pictures: Tahrir clashes 29 November 2012
Tear gas filled the air in Tahrir, clashes continued and injured were rushed to hospitals
Shafiq turns revolutionary
Losing presidential contender calls Muslim Brotherhood a “dissonant” group
In Pictures: Tahrir encore
Hundreds of thousands of people flowed into Tahrir Square to protest President Mohamed Morsy’s constitutional decree
Mohamed Mahmoud defendants granted amnesty
Trial resumes, verdict postponed until 15 December
Injured revolutionaries attempt suicide
Protesters say they lost hope as president and his advisor were not helpful
Morsy pushed to prosecute those who cut communication
Rights group seeks resolution from 25 January
The rights of the martyrs
As the first anniversary of the clashes of Mohamed Mahmoud approaches, my social media timelines are bombarded with the images of the martyrs who died there and how we should never forget until we get back their rights. As the pictures and the names keep rolling in, it becomes impossible to distinguish the faces and …
Al-Saadawi’s brainchild fights for women’s equality in dark times
Nawal Al-Saadawi continues her fights for female equality
Revolutionaries demand jurisdiction for International Criminal Court
An activist makes her case
The First Egyptian Revolution
The first Egyptian revolution lasted 141 years, with the people, in the end, demanding the return of the monarchial rule
The war for Egyptian minds
Elections in Egypt are a game that depends primarily on non-political existence.
Review: Morsy and the Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohamed Morsy continue to attract attention in media debates. Some say Morsy is a Pharaoh-in-the-making. Others extend this definition to include the entire Muslim Brotherhood, especially after the sacking of Gamal Abdul-Rahim, editor-in-chief of Al-Gomhuria newspaper by the head of the Shura Council, in addition to the violent repression of …
Mobs use violence to keep women away from Tahrir
The mob attack on France 24 Correspondent Sonia Didri near Tahrir Square last Friday as she was reporting on the protests is both shocking and disturbing. It’s disturbing because the mob violence phenomenon appears to have become a trend in the “new” Egypt. The assault on Didri is the latest in a wave of sexual …
Renowned scholar discusses the development of the Arab Spring
Noam Chomsky speaks at AUC
A busy schedule for Morsy
The president met with disabled protesters, media representatives and religious figures
From the Other Side
Bahrain’s Revolution and President Morsy
Food prices have almost doubled in Syria, UN says
WFP has provided around 1.4 million people across Syria with food aid since September 9.
The circle
Didn’t we have a revolution to make everything better?
Government denies draft of revolution protection law is authentic
The published draft allows security forces to detain suspects for a month.
United Arab Emirates: Between Arab springs
The political protest does not come simply due to disparity in distribution of wealth.
UN envoy, German minister in Turkey for Syria talks
Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle were in Turkey on Saturday for talks on the Syrian conflict.
Turkey and the pitfalls of the Ottoman revival
It is essential for Turkey to pause and reflect on its Middle Eastern policy and on what kind of model it would like to present to the Arab world.