A police officer reportedly shot a microbus driver in Maadi's Gaza'er Square earlier today. The motive is as yet unclear, though onlookers said the shot was fired in the midst of an argument between the two, and many stated that the driver died on (...)
Some are calling it the “Friday of Solidarity” while others see it as another chance to reinforce the demands of the Egyptian revolution. But whatever the motive, the idea is to bring a million or more back intro Tahrir Square on Friday to (...)
Three prominent chairmen of Egyptian publications and one chief editor resigned today, along with the head of the Press Syndicate himself, Makram Mohamed Ahmed.
Ahmed's resignation was formally accepted today by the Press Syndicate Council. An (...)
Journalists at state-run newspapers held a protest on Sunday at the Press Syndicate demanding the resignation of their editors-in-chief and a change in their papers' editorial policies.
The journalists, who also accuse their editors and upper (...)
The National Association for Change (NAC) -- a loose grouping of political affiliations centered around democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei -- issued a statement yesterday to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces detailing the group's vision for (...)
As strikes and protests continue for better work conditions and pay across a wide range of sectors, a fierce demonstration erupted outside the Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF) yesterday to tackle one of the root concerns: the right to (...)
A clear blue morning sky greeted residents of the democracy ghetto that had pitched itself up in the square which now truly earns its name -- Tahrir.
While a jubilation-induced hangover seemed to waft over the dozens of tents this morning, by (...)
Last Thursday I was attacked and beaten by a mob of no less than 20 people while taking a picture of the fire that burned through parts of HyperOne market near the entrance to Sheikh Zayed City. The assault began while I was trying to tweet through (...)
The Hisham Mubarak Law Center held a press conference earlier today, drawing attention to the muddled conditions and accusations faced by detainees arrested during the last two days of protests.
Currently, 216 are confirmed to be held in police (...)
It's a right that remains in short and notoriously irregular supply in Egypt. Yet freedom of expression continues to be in high demand. To that end, an amalgam of bloggers, journalists and activists attended a lecture yesterday evening at the (...)
Only a few days after the world's media began releasing the diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks, one popular Egyptian Twitterer posed this question to his followers: “So, how much longer do you think the WikiLeaks Cablegate will keep the world (...)
Would you sell your country for $37,000? It's a question that's been handled with a mix of bafflement and disgust as talk show hosts and verbose columnists considered the story of the “Egyptian Kung Fu instructor” who turned into an Israeli (...)
As the truck drivers' strike approaches the two week mark, those who are not themselves participating are also stationary. Fear of attracting violence from their more zealous colleagues is keeping them off the road.
“I was on the Ring Road when I (...)
"We are the country's hemoglobin," said veteran truck driver Mahmoud Sayed, "we bring the food and the raw materials to all its cells. If we stop working, everything stops working."
Sayed proudly articulated these words at the end of a six-day (...)
As British retailing giant Marks & Spencer prepares to open its doors for the first time in Egypt, both eager customers and disgruntled activists prepare to do what they do best: shopping, and boycotting.
Even weeks before M&S's planned debut at (...)
Last Sunday, as the second round of Egyptian parliamentary elections played out, news unfolded of a fourth and this time fatal shark attack in Sharm El Sheikh. Immediately the media was torn -- which story was to be today's big story? More “updates” (...)
Following preliminary results, the left-wing Tagammu appears to be the biggest winner, in terms of numbers, amongst Egypt's opposition. The party's win comes on the back of its refusal to tow the line of the Wafd and the Muslim Brotherhood and pull (...)
More than 50 members of the leftist Tagammu Party launched an assault on chairman Rifaat El-Said after they were refused entry to a meeting in the Socialist Renewal Movement headquarters in downtown Cairo.
Led by the party's Alexandria committee, (...)
The leftist Tagammu Party has announced its intention to participate in the second round of Egypt's parliamentary elections. The decision comes amidst mounting pressure from some of the party's committees to follow the Wafd Party and Muslim (...)
Some have branded it “the only good thing” to come out of Egypt's elections while others declared it “hero of the day.” Whatever you think of it, Twitter was brimming with a near overdose of instant information for those following Egypt's (...)
The leftist Tagammu party has said it is confident of only one candidate seat in parliament, out of 74 the group was campaigning for. The head of the party's political bureau, Hussein Abdel Razek, said he expected the seat to go to Abdel Rasheed (...)
Conduct an informal poll of friends, colleagues, family members or neighbours, and you will almost immediately come to the realisation that an overwhelming majority of your "sample" has never voted, nor have most of its members ever took the trouble (...)
A Google search of the words “media crackdown Egypt” will spew out over 300,000 results – all too many of them appear as news items for the month of October, 2010.
This is not surprising. With the recent sacking of Egypt's most notoriously (...)
The April 6 Youth Movement began in the spring of 2008 as a Facebook group expressing support for workers protesting in the industrial city of Al-Mahalla Al-Kurba. The group quickly gained momentum, drawing 100,000 users to its cause. The Al-Mahalla (...)
State-owned papers continue to hype the 25th Africa-France Summit, which is being held in the Riviera city of Nice. Al-Akhbar's headline reads, “Mubarak directs a message to the world to support Africa in the opening of the summit today.” The (...)