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Two years ago, millions of protesters took to Egypt's Tahrir Square demanding and achieving the removal of dictatorial president, Hosni Mubarak. O...
Opposition leaders have called Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi's annulment of a controversial decree to expand his powers a "meaningless gesture", af...
William Hague has expressed deep concern at the ongoing violence in Egypt, urging authorities and opposition activists to show restraint as protests a...
Egyptian female activists have warned of a disturbing trend in violence against women after a 16-year-old girl was allegedly gunned down for spitting ...
Instead of unreservedly condemning the violence and defending free expression, however, a number of Western commentators have sunk into a swamp of half-baked liberalism that appears to believe only in the necessity of committing cultural suicide as hastily as possible.
Omar Suleiman, Egypt's former intelligence boss has died, according to the country's state-run news agency. The 76-year-old, who served briefly as...
When Egyptian activist Salma Said was asked at a discussion in London on women and the Arab Spring about what people in the West could do to help, her answer was immediate and direct: "You could stop your politicians selling arms to the people who are shooting us." Said spoke from experience: she was hospitalised after being shot during protests that followed the Port Said football stadium tragedy that left at least 74 people dead.
Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak has suffered a stroke, and prison officials said he is likely to be moved out of his prison hospital to a milit...
The heady optimism of 2011 and the rapid fall of the regimes of Gaddafi, Mubarak and Ben Ali, has been replaced by disappointment in the new military leadership in Cairo, deep divisions in Libya and of course the continued brutal clampdown against protestors in Syria.
On 16 October 2011, American Jessica Albrent married Ahmed Azzam, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot in the Egyptian military. The marriage was legal and binding under Egyptian law. Jessica and Ahmed's families and friends joined them to celebrate their union. The couple were married for less than two months, when Ahmed was arrested.
Europe's freezing weather has provided some of the best pictures, with a beautiful panorama of Prague's skyline, vapour hanging over the river Elbe in...
For better or worse, the notoriety of the internet stepped up a notch last year. Civil unrest was a common theme in the news - not just here in the UK, but throughout the world - the US had the Occupy movements, we had 'the riots' and of course, Arabic countries had the Arab Spring. The resounding driving force behind these events? Social networking.
We can expect more "amazing struggles" around the world in the next few years according to Gene Sharp, the man credited with the non-violent strategy behind the toppling of governments from Serbia to Egypt.
It was not Facebook, Twitter or YouTube that brought down Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian people did that. But this does not mean that social media and Internet‐based technologies played no role, or that their role was insignificant, as some have alleged.
Egyptian prosecutors have demanded the death sentence for former president Hosni Mubarak. They are calling for the same for additional defendants,...
An online poll conducted by YouGov for YouGov-Cambridge (its new academic arm) days before the first round of the Egyptian parliamentary elections on 28/29 November provides a fascinating snapshot of voters pulled between the ballot box and the mass street protests which erupted in Tahrir Square and elsewhere in the country during the same period.
2011 has been a year of passionate political protests around the world, often provoked by high levels of corruption in public life. Many citizens feel their leaders and public institutions are neither transparent nor accountable, and all too often are systemically corrupt.
Egypt has seen the initial round of its first supposed 'free and open' elections. Following a week of violence that saw a 120-hour battle between the Egyptian state forces and the protesters on Tahrir, up until the last minute, voters, judges, candidates and journalists weren't sure the elections would go ahead.
Students arrested in Cairo after Egyptian security forces accused them of throwing firebombs have flown home. Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregor...
Thousands of protestors have filled Cairo's Tahrir Square in the latest demonstration against the military authorities in Egypt. Organisers called ...
The United Nations has called for an independent investigation into the killing of protesters in Egypt as violence in the capital continues to rage. ...
Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi has given a deadline of July 2012 for presidential elections in Egypt. In a move certain to infuriate the tho...
Protesters have gathered in central Cairo for a "one million-man march" as demonstrations against the ruling military council continue into a fourth d...
Women in Egypt have been subjected to 'horrific' torture at the hands of the Egyptian Army, including electric shock treatments and virginity tests, A...
British nationals have been warned to stay away from Egypt's Tahrir Square as violent clashes left at least 11 dead. Security forces surged on thou...
