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, ...

On the 25 January each year, the family of Mostafa Ragab visit his grave in Suez. Killed by several bullets to the chest and head, Ragab, 21 and who worked in a cement factory, was the first casualty ...

Melissa Block talks to Heba Morayef, Director of Human Rights Watch's Egypt office, about their latest report on human rights violations. So hundreds killed in the streets, dozens of detainees killed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Two years ago, chants of "Irhal! Irhal! (Leave!, Leave!)" resonated through Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Egypt's fledgling revolution. Longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York City Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani spent a summer in college in Egypt, where the self-described democratic socialist - who was not yet an American citizen - said he learned about ...