As calls for protests garner more attention from the media and citizens who have long ignored them, many serious questions about Egypt's trajectory arise. This is perhaps Egypt's most disheartening moment in recent history. Besides the unprecedented (...)
It didn't take long for the regime to crack down on Islamist and secular opposition after the military takeover on 3 July 2013. Anyone speaking out against regime injustices was discredited as a Muslim Brotherhood member and loyalist to the deposed (...)
The most recent European Union resolution has effectively condemned Egyptian security forces for the murder of Italian PhD student, Giulio Regeni. The young Cambridge scholar was forcibly disappeared and killed while conducting research on (...)
Many young Egyptians dream of a better life. The trouble is that most want to achieve it by leaving Egypt; this was not always the case. In 2011, many youths living comfortably abroad decided to dream of a better Egypt, not just by wishing it but by (...)
The 7thPanorama of the European Film kicked off with Human Capital, an Italian film directed by Paolo Verzi. Based on a novel by Stephen Amidon with the same title, the film is about two families centering on an accident where a cyclist is hit at (...)
Nabil Elboustany was on his way to Sinai on 6 October to meet his brother Tarek for vacation. At a checkpoint just outside Sharm El-Sheikh, the police performed a background check on Nabil and found him on their system due to an old case that (...)
It is no longer necessary to persuade the reader that Egypt is a country that has long forsaken its promised path of democratic transition, and whose rights abuses are systematic and deliberate. It is now a given, and whatever doubts there may have (...)
What's happening in Egypt now is beyond dangerous for those willing to think it through. At first glance, the overwhelming support for President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi caused observers to envisage a stable outlook towards the country's future. After (...)
Set in the heart of downtown Cairo, Mahmoud Kamel's Khareg El Khedma (Out of Order), which premiered in Egypt last week, is a social drama with narrow chances of garnering big interest from cinema goers
The main character of the recently released (...)
Last week Pope Tawadros issued the latest in a long list of fiery statements, when, in a visit to Norway, he remarked: "We can pray in a nation without a church but we can't pray in a church without a nation.
The statement is an attempt at (...)
Why would the regime arrest and torture someone if they didn't do anything wrong or if they can prove their innocence?
Such a question seems to be a common logical retort by many Egyptians in response to accusations that the regime, personified in (...)
Protesters who took to the streets on 25 January, 2011 have since then been determined to get their message across at any cost. In the face of a government trying its hardest not to listen, those protesters have tried to find new methods of (...)
Goethe-Institut web journal in Cairo taken offline February amid suspicions that security and not quality was the deciding factor; Ahram Online investigates, looking at similar cases and German-Egyptian relations
A web journal run by the (...)
The revolutionary overthrow of Mubarak brought Egypt under the sway of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), who pledged to protect the revolution and realise its objectives. A year on, Ahram Online reviews the record
A year has passed (...)
Over the last year, Egyptian university students have proven to be one of the most politically active segments of the population. Not only have they participated in protests, sit-ins and marches, they have also attempted to bring the revolution to (...)
A pardon issued Saturday for the release of 1,959 prisoners sentenced by military courts will not be executed until 26 January.
Among the prisoners is blogger Maikel Nabil, whose lawyer, Amir Salem, said that his client was to be released today.
“I (...)
In recent history, Islamist figures have clashed with artists on numerous occasions. The most recent incident being when Salafist leader and parliamentary candidateAbdel-Moneim El-Shahat accused the Egyptian Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz of (...)
The new system in Egypt's 2011 elections may seem overwhelming to those trying to figure out how the winners will be calculated. The introduction of the list system and calculations using the ‘largest remainder' method has been a cause for (...)
What you need choose?
As a voter you are expected to choose:
Two individual candidates to represent you
One list that you feel represents you
Who can I choose from the individual candidates?
You may choose any individual (...)
A man boarded a train and fired his pistol at Coptic Christians in Egypt, killing one and injuring five others, and then fled the scene. He was a policeman.
Days before, the bombing of the church in Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city on New (...)
Kaf El-Amar (The Moon's Palm), director Khaled Youssef's latest film, was released in time for the Eid film season. Eid Al-Adha, literally the Greater Eid, is the grand feast of sacrifice that is also the culmination of the annual pilgrimage to (...)
The head of the military judiciary announced Thursday, 13 October, that the armed forces alone would investigate what is known as the Maspero Massacre — the clashes that took place 9 October, leaving 28 people dead and at least 325 injured,when (...)
El-Safina Wel Wehsheen (The Ship and the Villains) is a play about an actor condemned to death for quoting Shakespeare, using the term "gods" and declared an apostate. He persuades his condemners to give him a chance to live. They decide that he (...)
Al-Mosafer(The Traveller) is a debut feature length film by Ahmed Maher, starring Omar Sharif, Khaled El-Nabawy and Cyrine Abdel-Nour. Produced and directed in 2009, it has taken the film nearly a year and a half to open in Egypt due to numerous (...)
The minute Melody Aflam's advertisements for Ana Badea' ya Wadea' (I'm Falling Apart Wadea') were released they became instant cult classics. The advertisements were sleazy, jocular, stylised and openly embraced the crassness that is common in (...)