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Since the eruption of last year`s January 25 Revolution, Egyptians have lived through anxious nights filled with fear and violence. But nothing has been more painful than the four days of clashes in November of last year on Cairo`s now-iconic Mohamed Mahmoud Street.

"The battle of Moh..

"The moment I saw my brother laying on the ground covered with blood, after he was run over by an armoured military vehicle, fails to leave my memory, even one year later. Especially as I was hit when I tried to pick him up," says Wael Bishay, brother of Ayman, forty, who died in the 9..

During revolutionary times, remarkable social, cultural and economic changes occur. Each phase potentially carries new surprises as a reflection of these emerging changes.

The emergence of Nasserist candidate

On the second day of the presidential elections I went to Nazlet Al-Semman, the village adjoining the Giza plateau just outside Cairo – home to the majority of those pro-Mubarak thugs who waged the Battle of the Camel, taking their camels and horses over to Tahrir Square to attack protesters wit..

Pro-democracy organisations point to more sinister motives behind Thursday`s attacks, as Egyptian officials prepare to hand back confiscated items.

Egyptian authorities promise within the next twenty-four hours to return all property seized during the attacks on the nongovernmenta..