NEW YORK, NY — Gamal Dewidar is busy working through the fully shelled prawns in front of him, but he breaks long enough to point out the picture on the wall of him shaking hands with Hosni Mubarak.
“Mubarak is my friend and I put up his picture, (...)
A taxi pulls up to the Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue on Adly Street in downtown Cairo. The driver has to wait for the manic traffic to calm down before he can unload a wheelchair from his trunk, unfold it, and help a frail, elderly woman into its (...)
A hungry young boy runs up to the kiosk in the early afternoon and holds out a pound for the vendor. His brown shirt is mottled with dirt and his hair a tangled mop that ends just before reaching his shoulders. He wants a bag of chili lemon-flavored (...)
On 21 January, the head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, appointed 10 members to the lower house of Parliament, the People's Assembly, two days before the newly elected legislature was seated. The appointments were (...)
For almost two weeks now, residents have been holding a sit-in at the construction site for Egypt's first nuclear plant in the North Coast town of Dabaa. The protesters say they have been deceived by the provincial governor, who told them late last (...)
Ambulance sirens and the sound of an occasional gunshot in the background cannot break the determined, measured cadence of Abdallah Omar Abdel Rahman, the son of the man convicted of helping coordinate the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and one of (...)
I was detained by the military at around 7 pm last Tuesday for walking home. I must have been walking a menacing kind of walk. I often place one foot in front of the other and propel my body forward through space, which I now understand could be (...)
Around 500 Libyans and their supporters celebrated outside the Libyan Embassy in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo from late Sunday night through early Monday morning, jubilant over reports that the Libyan capital of Tripoli had finally been taken (...)
Security forces fired shots into the air and violently dispersed a protest late Monday night outside the Libyan Embassy in Zamalek.
Responding to the shots, about 50 demonstrators - mostly comprised of Libyan expats and Egyptians of Libyan descent (...)
On the evening of 23 July, a rock landed on Mohamed Mohsen Ahmed's head during clashes between residents of Cairo's Abbasseya neighborhood and protesters marching toward the headquarters of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (...)