From January 25 to February 11, 2011, a revolutionary upsurge of the Egyptian working class toppled a decades-old US-backed dictatorship in the largest Arab country. In two weeks and three days of ...

When it happened, Egypt’s February 2011 revolution seemed an epochal global event. If Cairo was not the birthplace of the Arab Spring, it was its apogee. The people of the Arab world’s most populous, ...

Fifteen years ago, Egyptians from all walks of life took to the street to demand “bread, freedom, social justice.” They were protesting the oppressive 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak. Egypt had been ...

'Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution' documents the 25 January 2011 uprising and its aftermath through the prism of popular culture, showing how Egyptians have narrated their ...

Ten years ago today, mass protests began in Egypt that led 18 days later to the fall of long-standing dictator Hosni Mubarak, electrifying workers and youth worldwide. The Egyptian revolution was a ...

10 years ago, I was in Cairo when the revolution broke out. Over 18 days, Egyptians protested and brought down President Hosni Mubarak. This is my diary of what I saw and did over 18 days that were by ...

This post is part of our special coverage Egypt Revolution 2011. About ten days ago, the Egyptian military forcefully pushed away the protesters demonstrating outside the Egyptian cabinet. More than ...

There is a song midway through the new musical We Live in Cairo, which follows six American University of Cairo students during the Egyptian Revolution, that clicks with today’s student activists just ...

This post is part of our special coverage Egypt Revolution 2011. The year 2011 is coming to an end, and with all the events took place in Egypt, it is important to list the most important or ...

During the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, security forces massacred over 100 prisoners, and injured thousands more in many of Egypt's prisons. Whilst in other prisons, the state engineered the ...

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