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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

19 October 2011 Egypt's revolution toppled a dictator in February, but the country's future as a stable, functioning democracy remains uncertain. The West is, of course, limited in its ability to ...

The hero we need now.

This piece was first published by Raseef22, an Arabic media platform, on January 25, 2021, and was written by Reem Mahmoud. It is published on Global Voices via a content-sharing agreement. If we were ...

This post is part of our special coverage Egypt Revolution 2011. This first part of a documentary on the Egyptian Revolution tells it from the perspective of blogger and viral video producer Aalam ...

This series examines the countries today from the perspective of our correspondents on the ground to see how the post-revolutionary countries have come full circle to their autocratic ways. Journalism ...

Monday February 14, 2011 By itself, the military could not have turned on its own, especially with its financier, the United States frowning on coups that would weaken emerging civilian institutions ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Egyptian human rights activist Sanaa Seif about her brother, a well-known activist involved with Egypt's 2011 uprising, who completed his new book from prison. The Egyptian ...