February 11 in 2011 was a day that Egyptians had waited decades to see. After less than a month of widespread popular protests, the country’s ruler of 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down. The Arab ...

Revolutionary socialist and journalist Hossam el-Hamalawy was a leading voice of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Millions of ...

On January 25, 2011, Egyptian people shook off the fear that their president of 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, had held over them, and marched to demand democracy. Pictures of the protests fixated the world ...

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, ...

This post is part of our special coverage Egypt Revolution 2011. The year 2011 is coming to an end, and with all the events took place in Egypt, it is important to list the most important or ...

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 eruption of the Arab revolutions, with the disappointment and disillusionment that ensued, has pushed me as well as many other observeres and participants into a soul-searching process, to which ...

Melissa Block talks to Heba Morayef, Director of Human Rights Watch's Egypt office, about their latest report on human rights violations. So hundreds killed in the streets, dozens of detainees killed ...

When Tahrir Square was not playing host to Egypt’s revolutionary sequels, it became one of the chief unofficial nerve centres of the Syrian Revolution. Thousands of fleeing Syrians quickly connected ...

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 ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Robyn Creswell THE REPUBLIC OF FALSE TRUTHS By Alaa Al Aswany Translated by S. R. Fellowes Alaa ...