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 مقابلة مع المدربة والناشطة المصرية في مجال حقوق الإنسان علا شهبه عن سنوات عديدة من العمل الهام الذي حققته حملة العمل والمنظمة المدنية المعروفة باسم الحرية للشجعان. 

Egypt as Effigy: Predatory Power, Hijacked History, and the Devolution of Revolution. Adel Iskandar argues that Egypt today is a replica of various historic Egypts, each manifesting as an effigy built for either public scrutiny or glorification.

December 2016 marked the fifth anniversary of an iconic moment in the Egyptian revolution, when soldiers were filmed and photographed brutally beating a female protester in Tahrir Square, dragging..

Renowned Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim

[The following is the text of a presentation given by Bahey Eldin Hassan, Director of Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) during the EU Parliament Human Rights Subcommittee Session of 28 May 2015 in Brussels]

Last week the student union at Ain Shams University’s Scho..

Kazeboon revisits Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi`s Egypt two years after the 3 July military coup. The video below serves as a collage of footage highlighting what sort of state Egypt has become under Sisi. Archival footage traces Sisi`..

The prevailing characteristic of the time before the revolution, all those moons ago, was Egypt’s political moribundity. 

There were elections of sorts, or at least votes went in ballot boxes but their provenance was not always from voters. P..

Following the July 2013 power takeover by Defense Minister and later President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi,

It was not long after Wikileaks had released the Saudi cables that the dirty laundry it revealed about Egypt’s political elite began circulating in news reports and social media. Although many of the leaks have only confirmed what observers had long suspected, the details they reveal regarding t..

In times like these, when the hopes of the 2011 Egyptian revolution seem to have faded away, it is imperative to understand what went wrong, and in particular what went wrong in the new forms of digitally supported organizations that were displayed in the course revolution and that became a sour..

Just after dawn prayers on the morning of 14 August 2013, Egyptian security forces raided a large sit-in based at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiyya Square and another at al-Nahda Square. Six weeks earlier, military l..

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Mahienour al-Massry, imprisoned on charges based on the Protest Law, writes from her prison cell:

Khaled Said`s anniversary has passed without reviving his memory, while at the same time one of Mubarak`s men has been in..

Three years have passed since the outset of the January 25 Revolution. Egypt remains a nation wrongfully imprisoned. The year 2013 in particular has brought the believers in January 25’s promise even more disappointments than the previous ..

No matter how many times you witness it, the transformation is still a dizzying one. Kiosks that once vended chocolate and cigarettes, deployed as a gunman’s shield. Shop window shutters framing sugar-sopped cakes or risqué clothes mannequins, now the roughage of a street barricade and..

Remember the guy who owns the sugarcane juice store from my previous article? He did not come out on 30 June to demonstrate. He did not protest even though he blew off the Muslim Brotherhood supporter who tried to engage him. The Brother t..

The unfolding political tumult in Egypt over the past ten days has not only captured headlines worldwide, it has taken its toll on journalism and reporting as well. While much of the international media turned their attention away from the country over the past year and assumed democracy was mar..

At least fifty-one people were killed in clashes between supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi and the Armed Forces around the Republican Guards headquarters early Monday morning, the Ministry of Health reported.<..

Following deadly clashes that broke out early Monday morning between the military and Muslim Brotherhood supporters in front of the Republic Guard headquarters, killing dozens, Islamists are once again the target of sweeping a..

Defense Minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will meet on Wednesday with the general commanders of the Egyptian Armed Forces, at the Defense Ministry headquarters, to discuss recent domestic developments as Wednesday`s forty-eight-hour deadline approaches. 

Mohamed ElBaradei, delegated by th..