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'This regime is more violent than Mubarak. There is no opposition now'
“‘Mahmoud told us in a letter: ‘don’t wake up a prisoner because his dreams are of freedom,” Tareq revealed. He added that one of the jails in which his younger brother had served time was that set...
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Magda Abu-Fadil: Hissah Al Sabah: An Enterprising Kuwaiti Princess
She’s not your stereotypical Arab princess out of some Hollywood producer’s imagination, but a hard working entrepreneur fiercely supporting women’s empowerment. She is Her Highness Sheikha Hissah...
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Eight Egyptians face trial over botched repair of Tutankhamun mask
Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun have been referred to trial for “gross negligence”. Related: Tutankhamun’s gold mask back on display in...
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State repression in Egypt worst in decades, says activist
The scale of state repression in Egypt is greater today than it has been for generations, one of the country’s most prominent journalists and human rights advocates has told the Guardian. Hossam...
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Eight Egyptians facing trial for botched repair job on King Tutankhamen's beard
The disastrous attempt to fix the king’s death mask occurred in 2014, when they used expoxy glue to reattach the chin. Prosecutors also claimed the workers had used the wrong glue to reattach the...
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Egypt Marks 5th Anniversary Of Uprising Against Mubarak
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt is marking the fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The run-up to the Monday anniversary has seen stepped-up security measures in...
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The memory of the Egyptian revolution is the only weapon we have left
I didn’t take my camera out with me the night Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. I stood in Tahrir Square among tens of thousands of Egyptians and told myself I would enjoy the moment, I would not divide...
View ArticleEgypt's youngest political prisoner, five years since the revolution – video
Mahmoud, 18, is imprisoned in Egypt for wearing an anti-torture T-shirt. On 25 January, two years since Mahmoud’s arrest, and five years since the revolution in 2011, the law states he must either be...
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Egypt 5 years on: was it ever a 'social media revolution'?
On the 25 January 2011 hundreds of thousands of protesters started to gather in Tahrir Square and planted the seeds of unrest which, days later, finally unseated the incumbent president, Hosni...
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The Guardian view on the Egyptian revolution: five years on, it’s too early...
It would be easy to characterise the Egyptian revolution, the fifth anniversary of which came round on Monday, as simply a story of high hopes followed by deep disappointment. Five years ago Tahrir...
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