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Uncle Morsy
![[Marching on the presidential palace on December 4th. Image originally posted to Flickr by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]](/content_images/3/sm_8245223223_f5c93b0016.jpg "[Marching on the presidential palace on December 4th. Image originally posted to Flickr by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]")
The past two weeks, since Morsy announced his Hitler powers, have been the bleakest since the revolution began. The day after Morsy’s Constitutional Declaration, the attorney general held an emergency meeting and opponents of the decree gathered outside the high court, where they were attacked by mystery plain-clothed attackers using teargas moments after the police quietly withdrew. When I arrived some twenty minutes later, the air was still pungent with the gas and riot ...
Keep Reading »A Firsthand Account: Marching From Shubra to Deaths at Maspero
![[Protestors in Maspero. Image originally posted to Flickr by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]](/content_images/3/sm_6290210087_e3807420e4.jpg "[Protestors in Maspero. Image originally posted to Flickr by Hossam el-Hamalawy.]")
The march from the Cairo district of Shubra was huge, like the numbers on 28 January. In the front row was a group of men in long white bibs, “martyr upon demand” written on their chests. A tiny old lady walked among them, waving a large wooden cross: “God protect you my children, God protect you.” The march started down Shubra Street around 4:00 PM, past its muddle of old apartment buildings, beat up and sad but still graceful compared with the constructions from the ...
Keep Reading »April 6: Genealogy of a Youth Movement
![[Egyptians demonstrate during the April 6th, 2009 strike. Image by Ahmed Abd El-Fatah/Demotix.]](/content_images/3/sm_46279.jpg "[Egyptians demonstrate during the April 6th, 2009 strike. Image by Ahmed Abd El-Fatah/Demotix.]")
Go to any protest outside Tahrir Square today and you will inevitably hear onlookers grumbling about “April 6 youths destroying the country” — even when the group has no presence at the demonstration. The April 6 Youth Movement’s reputation doesn’t so much precede it as outstrip it. Loyalists of former President Hosni Mubarak vilify the group’s leaders as foreign-funded traitors intent on (and more to the point, capable of) using their cadres to destroy Egypt as part of a ...
Keep Reading »Photos of Women's March Against Military Rule
[A day after soldiers brutally attacked and stripped a woman protestor in Tahrir Square in Cairo, thousands of women and men marched on 20 December from Tahrir Square to the Journalists' Syndicate and back to condemn the violence. Sarah Carr reports in Al Masry Al Youm that, "There was pervasive anger against the army, with frequent chants for the SCAF to leave power... 'Tantawi is the supreme commander of harassment and violation of honor,' one ...
Keep Reading »Walls Go Up
![[Image by Heba Afifi.]](/content_images/3/sm_wallsgoup.jpg "[Image by Heba Afifi.]")
There are now not one, but four walls in downtown Cairo. Huge cubes of round-edged cement are clumsily stacked on top of each other, as if by a child. Hours after its construction, the Qasr al-Aini wall was almost completely covered in graffiti on the protesters’ side. Tens of silhouetted army soldiers stood sentry behind the cubes, visible through the gaps between them. Two young boys stood next to the wall and made obscene gestures at soldiers on the building behind the ...
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