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 (...)
The common orthodoxy is that Egyptians are apathetic about voting. But before yesterday's deadline for voter registration, police stations were busy receiving citizens' requests to put down their names ahead of the next round of parliamentary (...)
