All posts tagged "revolution"

A champion of women’s rights and freedom was none other than Gazbeia Sirry. Born in 1925, raised...

“أنتِ جميلة كوطن محرر وأنا متعب كوطن محتل” – مريد البرغوثي لرضوى عاشور “you’re as beautiful as...

Mohamed Naguib stands over a crowd. It’s 1952, and the street is a flood of vibrant compassion...

Egypt’s soul is in constant evolution; its streets are a jigsaw-swing of different crowds and its name...

A familiar face in history, but one often overlooked in the books: Mohamed Naguib. One of the...

25 January, Eid El Shorta (Police Day), of 2011 fell on a Tuesday. I was sitting next...

  “From my mother, I inherited a stone cake, and, from my father, a prison cell.” –...

On the 11th anniversary of Egypt’s January 25 revolution, emotional tides that are often buried with the...

Bread has a long and arduous history of being the trigger for uprisings and revolutions across the...

Egypt is no stranger to unrest – rather, it seems to embrace the instability with enough grace...

Café Riche is a cozy temple for the initiated: strangers gather in clusters, exchange book briefs under...

 You may know him from the days of 2011, but Ganzeer is far more than a...

The past decade has been the most eventful and tumultuous in Egypt’s modern political history since the...

He had neither the charismatic smile of Gamal Abdel Nasser nor the attitude of Anwar el Sadat,...

Egypt’s longest-lasting former president, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, has passed away at the age of 91. The crucial...

“In the history of Iraq, this is the first time women go out and participate in such...

Tunisian activist Lina Ben Mhenni, one of the main icons of the 2011 Jasmine revolution in Tunisia,...