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Articles of the author Yasmine Fathy
Hundreds of thousands besiege Egypt's presidential palace to protest draft constitution
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered at Egypt's presidential palace and in Tahrir Square Tuesday to protest a draft constitution and a recent decree by President Mohamed Morsi giving him sweeping powers. "This constitution is all wrong. It violates freedoms and was only created by the (...)

04 - 12 - 2012
BREAKING: Workers at Steel plant block Cairo-Alex highway over wages
Two thousand workers at Beshay Steel factories blocked the Cairo-Alexandria desert highway early Tuesday demanding better pay, an Ahram Online journalist at the scene reported. Around nine thousand workers at four steel factories in Sadat City, 50 km north-west of Cairo, have been striking on (...)

08 - 05 - 2012
Egypt's forgotten heroes revisited
With justice for the revolution's martyrs the focus of parliamentarians' addresses on the second day of the People's Assembly, we look back at the struggle for recognition and help endured by those injured by the state Egypt's newly elected parliament kicked off its second session on Tuesday with a (...)

24 - 01 - 2012
Ashton condemns violence against peaceful demonstraters
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has released a statement deploring the latest flare of violence in Egypt and urged all parties to exercise restraint. Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission the Law also (...)

19 - 12 - 2011
BREAKING: Heavy voter turnout postpones Egypt Elections results till Friday
The Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) has announced that the results of the first phase of parliamentary elections will be released on Friday. The results will cover total vote counts for the nine governorates which voted in the first phase on November 28-29. The SEC was expected to announce (...)

01 - 12 - 2011
Houses of God turn to field clinics in Tahrir's ongoing revolution
The blaring sound of an ambulance siren alerts the triage station of its approach. Doctors, exhausted from treating hundreds throughout the night, look at each other in shock. “Have they started attacking the people again?” one of the doctors asks. At that moment, the ambulance door opens and (...)

24 - 11 - 2011
Revolutionaries, ruling council to face off in Friday protests
Millions of Egyptians are once again being urged to amass in Cairo's Tahrir Square tomorrow - and other squares across the country - to join Friday protests. This time, however, much of the anger appears to be directed at recent measures adopted by Egypt's ruling military council. Several (...)

29 - 09 - 2011
The curious case of Tantawi's civilian suit: video
If bumping into the man who has been leading the country since President Mubarak was ousted last February was bizarre, the fact that he was not in his trademark military attire, but in a black civilian suit, was even more shocking. Tantawi proceeded to walk the streets of Cairo while greeting (...)

27 - 09 - 2011
Mubarak's fall spawns End of Times prophecies
Egyptians, especially those that participated in the recent revolution, hold many grudges against ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Now, however, they've taken their animosity to a whole new level, accusing the deposed leader of being nothing less than the Anti-Christ himself. The Anti-Christ, or (...)

25 - 09 - 2011
Human rights in post-Mubarak Egypt: the jury is still out
Some optimistic commentators point out that gains have been made in the transitional period, whereas others are concerned about the high levels of torture and number of military trials under SCAF When the battered face of a corpse of a 28-year-old man becomes one of the most famous images (...)

20 - 09 - 2011
Live updates: Mubarak trial
13:03 Judge says that sessions will no longer be televised. He postpones now unified case against Mubarak and his former minister of interior till 5 September. Judge Refaat approves several procedural demands for lawyers on both sides. 13:00 Judge approves key request by lawyers of victims as he (...)

15 - 08 - 2011
Egypt political spectrum react to historic trial of Mubarak
With Egypt paying rapt attention to the long-awaited trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, which many feared he would weasel his way out of, Ahram Online gets the initial reactions by some of the most important political parties as well as famillies of victims of the revolution. . Tafida (...)

03 - 08 - 2011
Muslim Brotherhood praise Mubarak trial as 'unique event' in Egypt
Mohamed Saad El-Katatny, the secretary-general of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, has released a statement calling the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Alaa and Gamal and the former minister of interior Habib El Adly and other former officials a "unique (...)

03 - 08 - 2011
Egypt's fast forgotten heroes
While the families of the martyrs of the Egyptian Revolution struggle for recognition and assistance, the injured, some of whom are now disabled, that run into the thousands, also struggle to survive with little to no help On 28 January, the day Egyptians call the “Friday of Rage,” 22-year-old (...)

06 - 07 - 2011
Torture in Egypt: Never again?
“Where is your uncle!” screamed an officer in a Cairo police station. A murder had been committed in the area and the police had a suspect, but couldn't locate him. That is until someone had the bright idea that maybe his nephew would know his whereabouts. So the nephew was brought to the police (...)

25 - 06 - 2011
13 Parties unite to form 'National Coalition for Egypt'
The “National Coalition for Egypt,” which was launched yesterday at the headquarters of the Wafd Party, has been created with the aim of establishing a parliament that is representative of all political forces in society and the creation of a national unity government. The member parties include (...)

15 - 06 - 2011
After the revolution: Egyptian women yet to win equality
Gihan knows the grey shabby walls of the Zananiry Family Court all too well. The 35-year-old has been coming here for five years after her husband walked out on her and their five-month-old son. First, she spent three and a half years waiting in the gloomy hallways of the court to finalise her (...)

12 - 06 - 2011
Egypt's Unwanted: HIV/AIDS carriers
In the middle of a crowded conference room, a thin young man stood up and slowly approached the podium. He smiled shyly at the audience sitting in front of him and then began to speak. “Today I have found the strength and ability to stand in front of you without any fear or shame and tell you (...)

01 - 06 - 2011
Court rules to retry Ayman Nour, opening doors to run for president
Egypt's Court of Cassation has accepted a petition to retry presidential hopeful, Ayman Nour. Ayman Nour has a criminal record and was, therefore, according to Egyptian law, excluded from official candidacy. Nour had announced publicly that he plans to run for president in the upcoming elections (...)

25 - 05 - 2011
Political trials: Justice or revenge?
Outside of Cairo's criminal courthouse yesterday, the families of the martyrs of Egypt's January 25 Revolution and their supporters waged a deafening call for political trials, which they insist is the only way to bring about justice quickly. The families were denied entry to the criminal courtroom (...)

22 - 05 - 2011
Egypt's emergent political landscape hostile to Israel, would keep treaty
A democratic Egypt's foreign policy will be more responsive to domestic public opinion. Ahram Online speaks to post-revolution political movements on their attitude towards Israel Today Egypt and the Arab world will commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba, the day the state of Israel was (...)

16 - 05 - 2011
Egyptian doctors hold first nationwide strike
The strike was organized by the High Committee for the supervision of the strike, which was elected by the syndicate's General Assembly on 1 May. The strike covered most public hospitals in Egypt and several university hospitals. “We finally did it; we finally held the first doctor's strike in (...)

10 - 05 - 2011
A National Council to protect Egypt revolution expected to be formed Saturday
In an attempt to save the January 25 Revolution from disunity, hundreds of Egyptian thinkers, political forces and normal citizens are being invited to a mass conference to help map out Egypt's future. The “First Conference of Egypt: The people protect the revolution” will be held on 7 May and (...)

06 - 05 - 2011
Prosecutor-general allows judges to investigate corruption cases
The General Prosecution has released a statement saying it will fast track investigations launched in several corruption cases by allowing judges to investigate the cases. The statement, released today on the General Prosecution's Facebook page, said that according to the Criminal Procedures (...)

28 - 04 - 2011
Protests against Christian governor escalate, Salafists dominate
Today thousands of protesters in Qena demonstrated against the new governor of the area, Emad Shehata Michael, for a fifth day. Mansour El-Eissawy, the minister of interior, made an unexpected visit to the governorate to try to soothe the protesters as the situation continued to escalate. The (...)

18 - 04 - 2011
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