Hosni Mubarak

Egypt's Challenge - Two Years After the Revolution

Shaimaa Khalil | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Shaimaa Khalil

I'm an Egyptian journalist working for the BBC in London and I've been reporting on the tumultuous events in my country for the last two years. In my new six-part BBC World Service series, Egypt's Challenge, I want to find out what post-revolutionary Egypt looks like. As it struggles to understand its new democracy I want to know what the main challenges facing my country are.

Egypt's Challenge - Two Years After the Revolution

Shaimaa Kahlil | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK Entertainment
Shaimaa Kahlil

I'm an Egyptian journalist working for the BBC in London and I've been reporting on the tumultuous events in my country for the last two years. In my new six-part BBC World Service series, Egypt's Challenge, I want to find out what post-revolutionary Egypt looks like. As it struggles to understand its new democracy I want to know what the main challenges facing my country are.

Five Shot Dead In Egypt At Morsi Protests

The Huffington Post UK | Charlie Lindlar | Posted 26.01.2013 | UK

Five people were reportedly shot dead in the Egyptian city of Suez on Friday during nationwide protests on the second anniversary of the overthrow of ...

Who's the 'Most Important Man of the Middle East'?

Ilco van der Linde | Posted 02.03.2013 | UK
Ilco van der Linde

Last month, Time Magazine featured the Egyptian president Morsi on its front page as 'The most important man of the Middle East'. It's an honorable title, but in the streets of Cairo the liberal protesters perceive this as demotivating nonsense.

Ignore the Neocons - I Refuse to Give Up in Egypt, or the Arab Spring

Mehdi Hasan | Posted 29.01.2013 | UK Politics
Mehdi Hasan

Long live the Arab Spring - despite the murmurs about Morsi's "pharaonic" decree in Egypt and the Syrian bloodbath, I refuse to lose faith in the people of the Arab world.

The Arms Trade is a Feminist Issue

Julie Tomlin | Posted 14.09.2012 | UK
Julie Tomlin

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.

What We Have Learned This Week: Hosni Mubarak is a Natural-Born Opinion-Splitter

Andy Zaltzman | Posted 21.08.2012 | UK Comedy
Andy Zaltzman

Hosni Mubarak, the former 29-time Egyptian President Of The Year, has this week had the world bickering over whether or not (and to what extent) he is or isn't still alive, just as, for so many years, he had had the self-same planet squabbling over whether or not (and to what extent) he was or wasn't a goodie or a baddie.

Former Egyptian President Mubarak 'On Life Support'

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 20.06.2012 | UK

Update: Mubarak has now been taken off life support, according to Sky News. Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is being kept alive by life s...

Mubarak Critical After Suffering Stroke

The Huffington Post | Posted 19.06.2012 | UK

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...

Hosni Mubarak 'Slipping In And Out Of Consciousness'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 10.06.2012 | UK

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is "slipping in and out of consciousness" the Associated Press have reported. Mubarak was transferred to a ...

Mubarak Likely To Be Moved To Hospital

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 06.06.2012 | UK

The health of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is in a precarious state, according to reports from the Associated Press. Security official...

Deposed Egyptian President Convicted Of Killing Protesters

Huffington Post UK | Chris York | Posted 02.06.2012 | UK

Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian President, has been found guilty of complicity to kill protesters during the Arab Spring by a court in Cairo on Sat...

Egypt: Revolution or Reaction?

Dr Johan Franzén | Posted 13.07.2012 | UK Politics
Dr Johan Franzén

The fight to achieve real democracy in Egypt will undoubtedly be protracted and is certain to last for at least another generation. Holding elections is merely the first step in a long process that requires nothing less than a cultural revolution within Egyptian society, because at the end of the day, there can be no democracy without democrats.

The Biggest Crime on the Planet

Chris Morgan Jones | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK
Chris Morgan Jones

A year on from successfully having them frozen, the Egyptian state has yet to recover a penny of the £85 million of assets thought to belong to Hosni Mabarak in the UK. Staff at its specially established Illicit Gains Department, despairing of any prospect of cooperation from the UK Treasury, filed a lawsuit against it last month.

Mubarak's Last Days: The Other Side of the Story

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 12.06.2012 | UK
Faisal J. Abbas

How could you possibly resist reading a book which has a title like: Tahrir: The Last 18 Days of Mubarak?

No Military Intervention in Syria: The Real Reason

Ben Wakeling | Posted 23.05.2012 | UK Comedy
Ben Wakeling

Since March 2011, when the uprising in Syria first began, over 8,000 people have been killed by Bashar al-Assad's regime. Videos surface daily of inju...

Egypt: The Dawn of an Islamist Future?

Dr Johan Franzén | Posted 01.05.2012 | UK Politics
Dr Johan Franzén

Over the past year, we have witnessed how the Egyptian revolution has stalled. From exuberant optimism in February 2011, through a violent summer and autumn with continuous clashes between activists and the military, to a still uncertain second winter.

The Fallacy of the Arab Spring

Dr Johan Franzén | Posted 20.04.2012 | UK Politics
Dr Johan Franzén

There was no Arab Spring - nor is there necessarily an Islamist Winter. Ongoing events in Syria, and recently across the Middle East, are the last in a long historic process of protest, opposition and revolution. But the outcome will not be democracy as we know it in the West.

The Angry Ones

Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea | Posted 03.04.2012 | UK
Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea

Who are the incubators of a real democratic renewal in the Arab Spring? After talking to young Egyptians, among them many intellectuals, who returned to their homeland having studied at prestigious English universities, I feel confronted with a rather contradictory picture.

Can the Arab Spring Spread Across the Rest of Africa?

Rachael Akidi | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK
Rachael Akidi

As the north African leaders were facing the music for their years of misrule, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni had a stern warning for the opposition in his country.

Online Activism & Revolution in Egypt

James Denselow | Posted 26.03.2012 | UK
James Denselow

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.

Ahdaf Soueif: Egypt's Revolutionaries Are in for the Long Haul

Julie Tomlin | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK
Julie Tomlin

Nearly a year after Egyptians took to the streets in an uprising that led to the overthrow of president Hosni Mubarak, it is time for the army to return to barracks and have nothing more to do with the running of the country, the writer Ahdaf Soueif said at a panel discussion in London last night.

Kim Jong Il and How to Be a Leader

Tim Clare | Posted 18.02.2012 | UK Comedy
Tim Clare

Dictators have always been a rare and persecuted breed. In the 20th century, 77% of all dictators had at least one assassination attempt made against them. Saluting military parades from a balcony while embezzling most of your country's GDP seems, increasingly, like a dying art.

Thousand Protest Against Egypt Military While Syria Misses Arab League Deadline

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK

Thousands of protestors have filled Cairo's Tahrir Square in the latest demonstration against the military authorities in Egypt. Organisers called ...

PICTURES: Egypt's Military Leader Gives July Deadline For Elections, Despite Tahrir Square Unrest

The Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 22.01.2012 | UK

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...