These striking images from a Tehran production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler caught my eye on the Revolutionary Road Facebook page. Sadly the accompanying...
Iran: Ibsen and Strindberg play out
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CATEGORY: Middle East and North Africa
Index Eyewitness: Cairo
Read Index on Censorship’s Ashraf Khalil‘s exclusive report from Friday’s anti-government protests in the Egyptian capital
Eyewitness: Cairo
I started today the Giza side of the river, across the Nile from Tahrir Square. Started from Moustafa Mahmoud mosque, a major landmark in the...
Egypt protests: Day four
As Egyptian protestors gather for a fourth day of mass demonstrations on Friday, the government appears to be making a major push to restrict...
Curly-haired Iranians Talk
Some of the curls were thrusting out of the obligatory veil, but last week on 1 Bahman 1389 (21 January) Iranians with curly hair staged a great...
Update: Egyptian protests
As Egyptian anti-government protesters battled security forces for a second day, the fight over the flow of information was becoming a fascinating...
Egyptian protesters hope to follow Tunisia’s example
A few memorable snapshots from today’s “Day of Rage” protests in Egypt: • A group of about 100 protesters is marching along the Nile corniche...
Open politics will stretch Tunisian Islamists
Rohan Jayasekera asks if the return of Tunisia’s Islamists help or hinder the national democratic project
Algeria: Protesters injured in unrest
A number of protesters have been injured during clashes with the police in a pro-democracy rally held in Algiers. The rally was held in protest to a...
Yemen: No place for change
Despite the eruption of Tunisian inspired protests in Sana’a and other cities in Yemen calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, regime change seems unlikely. Iona Craig reports