I don't expect the state to be creative, because power is an end in many ways, and only a threat to power is conducive to the state going outside of its comfort zone.
I don't expect the state to be creative, because creativity is put upon the (...)
After long hours of article-by-article voting on the Egyptian constitution by the Constituent Assembly, the draft was passed on early Friday.
The current draft has been submitted to President Mohamed Morsy, who in turn will put it up for a (...)
RAFAH — On a gloomy Saturday at dusk, Magdi Sayed and his wife load carpets and electrical appliances from their shop into a truck. As they move slowly, the vanquished family displays a visible bitterness, being forced into packing their whole lives (...)
ARISH — As President Mohamed Morsy met with community leaders in the capital of North Sinai, residents of the neighborhood where the meeting was held congregated after they were prevented by security from joining the meet-up. Many of them carried (...)
Yasser al-Najjar is a member of the Syrian National Council, and also part of the Free Syrian Army. When he is not in Syria coordinating between different battalions, he is a nomad between Egypt, Turkey and Qatar, raising support for the Syrian (...)
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 (...)
In a fictional scoop shortly before the presidential election, the daily newspaper Al-Dostour revealed a nefarious plot by the Muslim Brotherhood to dismantle the state.
Al-Dostour renewed its smear campaign a few days later after Brotherhood (...)
Towards the end of the presidential elections, Egypt Independent met with a group of nine young activists to take stock of the revolution. Recent developments have been less than kind to those who have for the past 17 months demanded revolutionary (...)
Manei Mohamed was buying a mobile phone at a kiosk in downtown Arish on the afternoon of 19 May when he suddenly heard gunfire. He looked around and saw a man with his face covered by a scarf run out of a barbershop, hop on a motorbike driven by (...)
While being often remembered in the news as the home of lawlessness, Sinai also had its two days of voting hype this week.
While the turnout is moderate to low and the choices are not deemed too revolutionary by the revolution's standards, many (...)
Amid Egypt's troubled transition, news from Sinai is emerging again, albeit in its old familiar form. Lawlessness is the story of the arid peninsula, which is home to an intricate set of historic, political, social and economic conditions that have (...)
Privately-owned dailies are still running follow-ups on last week's police raids of NGOs accused of illegally receiving foreign funds. The government has been investigating 17 Egyptian and international NGOs. Al-Shorouk, a privately-owned daily, (...)
Israel is still holding activists and journalists on board the Freedom Waves boats to Gaza, which were intercepted and caught on Friday afternoon in international waters.
According to Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian lawyer providing the detainees with (...)
Lina Attalah, Al-Masry Al-Youm English's managing editor, recently took part in the "Freedom Waves" flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. She was captured at sea by Israeli security forces on Friday along with the rest of the passengers, 27 activists and (...)
INTERNATIONAL WATERS, Eastern Mediterranean — At less than 150 nautical miles from the Gaza Strip's shores, activists on board the Tahrir solidarity boat are expecting potential Israeli intervention at any point, though there has been no sign of it (...)
INTERNATIONAL WATERS, Eastern Mediterranean - The 12 passengers aboard the Tahrir, a Canadian boat attempting to bring medical aid and a message of solidarity to the besieged Gaza Strip along with another ship, are frantically preparing for their (...)
FETHIYE, Turkey - "It doesn't matter what we do for Gaza this month or this year. What matters is how many years we stay with Gaza,” said David Heap, a member of the steering committee of “Tahrir,” a Canadian ship currently headed for the Gaza Strip (...)
FETHIYE, Turkey - Two boats set sail from the Turkish port of Fethiye on 2 November, bound for the Gaza Strip in another activist attempt to break the Israeli siege on the Palestinian territory.
The two boats, one Irish and one Canadian, were (...)
A long night of reporting about the Maspero violence that claimed 28 lives on 9 October ended with a heavy feeling of loss. A quick glimpse through one's Twitter feed revealed shock, sorrow and defeat. But amid this ominous moment, Alaa Abd El (...)
Families of those killed in the Maspiro clashes on Sunday night congregated at the Coptic Hospital on Monday morning, as their loved ones were about to be buried.
At the entrance, dozens of women in black screamed and wept, while men were seen (...)
Reports of trouble in Sinai remain on the front pages of privately-owned papers, and only state-run Al-Ahram leads with other news, ranging from Egypt's support for Libya's revolutionaries to the adjourned prosecution of former Housing Minister (...)
ARISH - Moussa al-Delh, a member of Sinai's influential Tarabeen tribe, was a fugitive before Egypt's uprising began in January, accused of inciting violence against Egyptian security forces in the peninsula. Now he sits at a café in the center of (...)
Today's papers are still running follow-ups to last week's major stories, such as the prosecutions of former regime figures and the appointment of new governors.
Privately owned daily Youm7 runs what it calls exclusive transcripts of former Interior (...)
Prime Minister Essam Sharaf spoke for a few minutes on Saturday, vowing to accelerate prosecutions of those who killed the revolution's martyrs and ensure, through a committee of experts, that social justice is achieved. But that didn't appease the (...)
Laila Shereen Sakr, digitally known as VJ Um Amel, speaks fondly about the real-time mixing between theory and practice. Her project, R-Shief, launched in early June, illustrates this new methodological approach to questioning and learning.
R-Shief, (...)