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Mai Shams El-Din

 

Mai Shams El-Din graduated from the American University in Cairo with a degree in journalism. She worked mostly for local English-language news outlets but has also been writing in Arabic, particularly when it comes to her home city, Aswan, Upper Egypt. She covers a variety of issues, but is drawn to the student movement, campus politics, human rights journalism among other things. You can find her on Twitter @maishams. 

ARTICLES BY Mai Shams El-Din

  • Two Years Later: Who Is to Blame for Rabea?

    Two Years Later: Who Is to Blame for Rabea?

    Two years after the bloody dispersal of the Rabea al-Adaweya protest camp that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in August 2013, the Egyptian state insists on one culprit for the violence: the Muslim Brotherhood.

    On Tuesday, Brotherhood Supreme Guide

  • Grieving Families Face Logistical Nightmare at Morgue

    Grieving Families Face Logistical Nightmare at Morgue

    A day after the bloody dispersal of two Islamist sit-ins by security forces left hundreds dead, the Al-Iman Mosque in Nasr City had been converted into a makeshift morgue, where ice and fans were used to cool the bodies of the slain protesters.

    Amid the chaos, grieving families there and a..

  • In Search of The Third Wave

    In Search of The Third Wave

    The ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated President Mohamed Morsi has left the nation starkly divided down lines popularly described as either “fascist” or “terrorist.” The latter accuse the former of siding with the military in their tour de force against the Islamists, while the former descr..

  • An Eyewitness Account of the Attack on the Presidential Palace Sit-in

    An Eyewitness Account of the Attack on the Presidential Palace Sit-in

    Clashes escalated between supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi around the presidential palace in Heliopolis on Wednesday after the sit-in there was attacked.  

    Tens of protesters staging a sit-in were confronted in the afternoon by a rally of hundreds of pro-Morsi demon..

  • Revolution Protection Law May Fail To Live Up To Its Name

    Revolution Protection Law May Fail To Live Up To Its Name

    After passing a controversial constitutional declaration late Thursday giving himself expansive powers, President Mohamed Morsy later went on to articulate the details of the Revolution Protection Law introduced in the declaration. 

    Meant to uphold revolutionary demands, the law ..