Renowned television host Lamis al-Hadidi created a brouhaha across the airwaves this week when she said she had eyewitness accounts of tents being set up in the border towns of North Sinai to house Palestinians fleeing the violence of Gaza.
Israel's (...)
Located in the midst of a favorable spot in the Nile, the Qursaya Island was the spot chosen by hundreds of activists back in 2007 to spend their New Year's Eve. The event was a way to raise awareness about the embattled island, whose residents were (...)
On 19 November 2011, all hell broke loose in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, which juts east from Tahrir Square.
Security forces brutally dispersed a sit-in of about 200 relatives of those injured or killed during the revolution earlier that year, along (...)
The revolution continues, or so they say. For many, the reasons to stage a revolution remain: social inequality, police repression, and corruption deeply embedded in the system.
But the masses, who flooded the streets in January and February last (...)
Sunday's front pages are covered with headlines about President Mohamed Morsy's separate “talks” with Amr Moussa, Hamdeen Sabbahi and Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh. The former presidential candidates discussed the first draft of the constitution with (...)
As protests erupted in the vicinity of the US Embassy in Cairo against an anti-Islam film last week, Egypt Independent had reporters on the ground every day. Their assignment was to come back at the end of the day and write an account of what they (...)
Another concrete-block wall is going up in Cairo, this time to separate the US Embassy in Cairo from the Omar Makram Mosque and Tahrir Square, the scene of clashes which began on Wednesday night, and were still continuing on Friday (...)
A protest against a film deemed offensive to Prophet Mohamed turned violent as clashes erupted between demonstrators and police in the early hours of Thursday in Tahrir Square.
Police vehicles fired tear gas at protesters who were banging stones on (...)
Protestors ripped the doors off a police car, as they pushed it towards the line of black-clad Central Security Forces (CSF) officers guarding the road leading to the American Embassy. From 100 meters away, they advanced, throwing rocks, until the (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday adjourned the sixth session in the trial of 43 foreign and Egyptian NGO workers until 2 October, when testimony from defense witnesses will be heard. The defendants are accused of illegally receiving foreign (...)
Residents of Shagarat Maryam in the Matariya suburb of Cairo are being threatened with eviction by the Ministry of Religious Endowments unless they pay a sum of LE12,000.
Ministry officials, accompanied by armed police, showed up Sunday afternoon (...)
The shack-dwellers of Ramlet Bulaq have been hit by a wave of night-raids and arbitrary, violent arrests, say residents and lawyers. Dozens have been arrested, beaten and intimidated, causing many more to flee into hiding.
Mohamed Khidhr, a lawyer (...)
ALEXANDRIA — The microbus drops one off at the bustling Abu Qir fish market, where merchants display the fruits of fishermen's labor — fresh revenue ranging from mullet to shrimp and tilapia. By night, a cafe frequented by fishermen becomes packed, (...)