Take the time to watch the outrageous Vodafone ad that has sparked public outrage in Egypt this week. Vodafone, the company that complied with the...
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CATEGORY: Egypt
Sectarian strife escalated by new political and religious forces
In the first week of May, in what was essentially a domestic dispute, a Christian woman by the name of Abeer Fakhry, wanting to divorce her husband,...
Protesters still face challenges in post-revolutionary Egypt
In post-revolutionary Egypt, freedom of expression is yet to be a given. On 15 May, for instance, scores of protesters commemorating the Palestinian...
Laying propaganda to rest
At last night's UNESCO's 2011 World Press Freedom Day event, a distinguished panel examined the freedom to report in light of the Arab Spring. One...
Route to revolution
Digital activism has long been a way of life in Egypt; from monitoring political corruption to protesting against police brutality Egypt has always...
Egyptian politics gets messy—in a good way
Egyptians are expected to turn out to the polls Saturday in mass numbers to vote on a package of proposed constitutional amendments. It’s a national...
Egypt’s Own WikiLeaks
The historic collapse of the once feared Egyptian police state has spawned a Wikileaks-style flood of secret information into the public sphere....
After Pharoah
The cars started flowing through downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square again on Sunday. Most of the protesters, who had made the massive public space their...
“I am on the people’s side, not the regime’s”
Shahira Amin, the number two at Nile television, explains why she resigned from Egyptian state television When I got into the car to drive to work...
Egypt: Protesters move from euphoria to fury
I watched President Hosni Mubarak’s speech Thursday night from Tahrir Square, where a live broadcast of Al Jazeera was being projected onto a sheet...