I began writing these words under curfew in the heart of the Tunisian capital, one day after the Tunisian popular uprising forced the dictator Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali to flee the country. The sounds of gunshots, sirens and roaming helicopters around (...)
I refuse to apologize on behalf of the terrorists who committed the atrocious massacre of the church in Alexandria.
I, as an Egyptian, regardless of the religion I believe in, or the one I was born into, demand an apology. An apology not only for (...)
Official museums, exhibitions and archives in the modern world are often evidence of the modes of exercising power and control by the state. The modern state's power to control and order memory, recreating the past to impose imagined national (...)
Do you remember the sandara? Yes, it is the storage space or attic that was often located between the upper edges of doors and the ceiling in Egyptian homes. You might remember it from your childhood in your grandparents' house. Have you recollected (...)
This question was triggered by the title of a three-day symposium that began yesterday at Cairo's Townhouse gallery. Its title, “Speak, Memory,” is borrowed from the memoir of the late Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov. The book, typical of this (...)
Hundreds of Egyptian activists staged an overnight sit in on the Rafah border crossing awaiting entry into Gaza, in an attempt to break the siege.
The convoy consists of around 350 Egyptian activists, including members of the Muslim Brotherhood, (...)
Washington DC--On May Day, Egyptians in America voted for the first time ever in a free and fair electoral process that included Hamdeen Sabahi, Mohamed ElBaradei, Ayman Nour, Amr Moussa and Gamal Mubarak as candidates.
The voting, which took place (...)
Washington DC--Today at 6 PM EST, a group of independent Egyptian academics will meet with Mohamed ElBaradei at Harvard University's Kennedy School in Boston.
A few days ago, a group of independent Boston-based Egyptian academics sent a Facebook (...)