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Published in: openSecurity‘Your face now looks permanently in pain’—awaiting sentence in EgyptThe sister of a US-Egyptian activist on hunger strike in a Cairo jail, whose cause has been taken up by Amnesty...
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Published in: 50.50The madame's story: renegotiating Cairo’s informal service sectorThe Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures are causing subtle but significant shifts in Cairo’s vibrant...
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Published in: 50.50The maid's story: renegotiating Cairo’s informal service sectorThe Egyptian Government’s anti-terrorism measures are causing subtle but significant shifts in Cairo’s vibrant...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCairo: a history of people’s right to the cityA social and historical introduction to people’s struggle over the right to the city in Cairo, Egypt.
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Published in: openSecurityHow Egypt can turn the tide on sexual assaultEgypt’s ruler, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, has responded to the growing outcry over mob sexual violence against women in...
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Published in: HomeMaking it flow, somehowThis is not a film about the Egyptian revolution. This is a film about Cairo - and traffic. Film review.
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt under SisiThe street in Cairo has become an insecure and volatile place. VICE News has been following avid supporters of...
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Published in: 50.50Takeovers and makeovers: using the landscape to re-write history in post-revolutionary CairoClearing sites of mass protest in Cairo and stamping them with symbolic representations of their preferred narrative...
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Published in: HomeThrift shops tell you something
In Egypt we have a lot of people who are dirt poor, and a thin stratum that has lavish spending habits. They spend...
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Published in: HomeForget the Egyptian economy - I want to know where my wife is
When a nasty declaration by the UN Commission on the Status of Women contradicts the established principles of Islam...
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Published in: HomeMubarak is a state of mind
Youths would just waste their lives away, willingly or unwillingly, it did not matter much: what mattered was that...
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Published in: HomeWhen a hero doesn’t come along: Egypt’s wait for its ‘Chavez’ lingers.
In this crucial post-revolutionary period where a vacuum is waiting to be filled, no one, on either side of the...
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Published in: HomeWhy do we have doubts about the IMF loan?
Egyptian diplomacy could adopt a distinguished role in the coming period, by opening new doors and adopting new...
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Published in: openSecurityThe politics of neglect in post-Mubarak CairoThe politics of neglect which has long governed Cairo's expansive informal spaces looks set to remain well into the...
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Published in: HomeWhen I can’t die
I grew up in a family that has been fanatical about death, although they claim the contrary. They took being...
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Published in: HomeMr. Prime Minister, please submit your resignation!
It would be naive to use painkillers for stopping the constant and accelerating loss of blood which is our human and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe maddening betrayal of potato-seller, Omar SalahIt is ironic that street vendors have spent more time in the square than any protestor ever has. Omar comes out...
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Published in: HomeEgypt needs a change, not in regime, but in cultural logic
Restructuring of institutions to create a more efficient bureaucracy free from corruption so that Egyptians no...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: on glorifying violence
One reason for glorifying violence was because for Mubarak, then SCAF followed by the Ikhwani government, accusing...
