CAIRO: As thousands head back to Tahrir Square to save the “revolution,” each from their own perceived nemesis, the millions (reluctantly) watching the spectacle on their TV sets might as well have been living in a different time and place. Apathy (...)
CAIRO: Is it too late to salvage what's left of Egypt's so-called revolution? Is it too late to go back to the drawing board?
Judging by the People's Assembly's decision to amendment political participation Law 73 of 1956, it's not. But there's a (...)
CAIRO: On the fourth anniversary of the April 6 protests, an invisible voyeur looks down from above, sporting a grin that is part gloating and part ‘mission accomplished'.
Back in the day, when the seeds of Egypt's recent popular uprising were (...)
CAIRO: The future of Egypt is on the brink of an Islamist abyss. The Freedom and Justice Party's tattered poker-faced mask has finally fallen, revealing the bloody fangs of a power hungry vampire, intent on destroying anything that stands between it (...)
CAIRO: Absurdity has taken on new meaning in the Egyptian socio-political context.
If one year after Egypt's downtrodden and destitute people toppled Mubarak with thunderous, unrelenting calls for bread, freedom and social justice, those very (...)
CAIRO: Three masked assailants attacked outspoken presidential hopeful Abdel Moneim Abol Fotoh and his driver late Thursday on the Ring Road, his campaign team said on Friday.
Both were hospitalized but Abol Fotoh returned home on Friday (...)
CAIRO: With a renewed wave of sectarian clashes and heightened tension between Egypt and the US over the “NGO hostage crisis”, the new Egypt doesn't seem so new after all.
The Muslim-Christian violence in Amreya, just outside Alexandria, (...)
CAIRO: Did we have cause to celebrate a year ago, on Feb. 11, 2011? Yes and no.
Since hindsight is always 20/20, looking back the answer is in reality more no than yes.
When then-vice president Omar Suleiman made the historic 30-second (...)
CAIRO: One of my childhood friends buried her son yesterday. He was 22. His name was Omar. He had his whole life ahead of him. No one could have imagined that Omar, like over 70 other Ahly club fans, was going to return from a football game in a (...)
First there was Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, then came Libya's bloody war, Syria's ongoing crimes against humanity, Yemen's forgotten struggle. And somewhere in between there was and continues to be Egypt's so-called “revolution.”
The closing (...)
CAIRO: When this is all over and we look back to 2011 in 20 years' time, the single most important outcome of the January 25 uprising will be the fate of Mubarak, his immediate family and their close-knit clique, some now basking in Tora prison (...)
CAIRO: Lawyer defending ousted president Hosni Mubarak argued in court Tuesday that the prosecution only filed charges against the ousted president under the pressure of public opinion and criticized them for offending the defendant with libelous (...)
CAIRO: I was there when the helicopter carrying Egypt's 30-year tyrant flew overhead in an open space brimming with a motley crew of martyrs' families, journalists, police, lawyers and the odd pockets of Mubarak supporters. I was there when a big (...)
CAIRO: Ten lawyers representing the civil society complainants at the trial of Hosni Mubarak demanded adding high treason to the charges, accusing the ousted president of premeditated murder, incitement, complicity in killing protesters and failure (...)
CAIRO: The prosecution said Wednesday during the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak that the interior ministry and the national security agency were uncooperative, refusing investigators' requests for official documents to help build their (...)
CAIRO: On Thursday, three things happened: The Cairo Criminal Court cleared five police officers of charges over the killing of five protesters in Sayeda Zeinab during the January uprising; prosecutors; civil and military police raided 17 offices (...)
CAIRO: I will not write about the scenes of brute force used by the military against protesters last week.
I will not write about the woman who was dragged, stripped and viciously clubbed and stomped by a mob of at least 10 uniformed thugs in a (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections, some say, are too good to be true.
Despite reports of some violations, mainly centered around continued illegal campaigning by the two main Islamist parties, Freedom and Justice as well (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian people are fighting battles on all fronts, armed with nothing but hope that the handful of other Egyptians they're betting on won't fail them.
No sooner had the battle at the polls completed round one and the results of (...)
CAIRO: Ironically, one year ago to the day, on Dec. 3, 2010, in this very space, I wrote an editorial titled “Long Live the NDP!”
Like then, the results of the first round of parliamentary elections were out and the ruling National Democratic (...)
CAIRO: “I'd rather live blind with dignity than live with eyesight, but in humiliation.”
The inspiring words of now iconic Ahmad Harara, a young dentist and political activist known for his Arabic calligraphy eye patch emblazoned with “January (...)
CAIRO: It's official. Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is leading the counter-revolution.
Why else would SCAF spearhead the unethical smear campaign against the now iconic activists who marched at the forefront of the January 25 (...)
CAIRO: Before I embark on this editorial, I'd like to express my profound gratitude to Egypt's venerable Military Prosecutor for giving the “No to Military Trials” campaign its biggest public boost yet earlier this week.
It's hard to think of any (...)
CAIRO: The recent verdict in the case of the brutal killing of 28-year-old Alexandrian Khaled Saeid, which was central to galvanizing the anti-regime sentiment that eventually toppled Mubarak, is both a blow to everything Egypt's uprising stood for (...)
CAIRO: In his final moments, a blood-smeared, emasculated Qaddafi begs his “children” not to shoot. The formerly larger-than-life 42-year Libyan tyrant appears small, manhandled by the National Transitional Council fighters who, according to one (...)