An Egyptian army conscript walks up to 12-year-old Omar Salah Omran, who sells hot sweet potatoes on the street - outside the front gates of Cairo's US Embassy, close to Tahrir Square - and requests two potatoes from the young street vendor.
Omar (...)
Upon his arrival at the Al Jazeera studio in Doha, Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak quipped his shock at the small office space of the news giant: “All that noise from this little matchbox?”
That “noise” widened beyond the Doha studios to take (...)
On 24 January 2011 – a day before the arc of Egyptian history would be altered – the film, Microphone, was screened.
Microphone documents Alexandria's pre-revolution underground scene of artists and musicians fighting a passive oppression that (...)
President Morsi, despite his rhetoric while in the opposition, remains captive to the same constrained perspective under which his predecessor, Mubarak, pursued Egypt's relations with both Israel and the US
In 2007, Mohamed Morsi, then chairman of (...)
No other library in the world today courts as much international awe and controversy as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina– the resurrected library of Alexandria that was unveiled ten years ago to commemorate its forebear lost in antiquity to a fire. (...)
When Tahrir Square was not playing host to Egypt's revolutionary sequels, it became one of the chief unofficial nerve centres of the Syrian Revolution.
Thousands of fleeing Syrians quickly connected with Egyptian activism, coordinated with the (...)
In the early days of World War II, French Premier Paul Reynaud remarked to General Philippe Pétain: “You take Hitler for another Wilhelm I, the old man who seized Alsace-Lorraine from us and that was all. But Hitler is Genghis Khan.” Reynaud's (...)
ALEXANDRIA: Across the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, there is a peculiarly subdued behavior amongst the ultra-conservative Muslims, also known as ‘Salafis'. Their characteristic certainty and preaching has been replaced with a somewhat stoic (...)
أثناء زيارتي الأخيرة لدولة بورنجا الديمقراطية قرأت إعلاناً في أكثر الصحف انتشاراً هناك تطلب فيه الحكومة وزراء للزراعة والتعليم والصحة للعمل بحكومة بورنجا وعلى من تتوافر لديه الشروط والمؤهلات والخبرات فعليه التقدم فوراً لشغل هذا المنصب بعد عمل مقابلة (...)
على أثر الهزيمة التى خرج بها فريق الأهلى المصرى من تصفيات كأس أبطال دورى أفريقيا أمام الترجى التونسى وقبلها بأيام هزيمة منتخب مصر من النيجر، فأننى لم أعد أكترث أو أحبط كثيرا عندما تحدث أية إنتكاسة للكرة المصرية بسبب تكرار الهزائم والإنكسارات السابقة (...)