CEDAR RAPIDS - A year ago, Husam Habeeb was in Cairo's Tahrir Square, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against Egypt's regime. During several weeks of protests, the ...
If Twitter has been dominating the discussion of social media and the current protests in Egypt, they aren’t the only social network filling the intertubes with oodles of information created by ...
Three months after the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the new Egypt is still sorting itself out—and perhaps will be for some time to come. Observers are concerned about both the country’s ...
Many Westerners, watching the revolution in Egypt, are wondering whether the outcome will be true democracy. Less often asked but equally important is whether Egypt can reform its economy in ways that ...
Wael Nawara is a writer, activist and co-founder of El-Ghad, a political party in Egypt. Time magazine named “the protester” as the 2011 Person of the Year, and highlighted Nawara as one of the most ...
There is a song midway through the new musical We Live in Cairo, which follows six American University of Cairo students during the Egyptian Revolution, that clicks with today’s student activists just ...
During the Egyptian revolution, known as the Arab Spring, journalists were poised to finally have the freedom to tell the truth. But that liberated time was short-lived – a journalist recounts the ...
Figured there should be a thread for this as it seems like it's only going to get worse before it gets better. 1) I don't think anything substantive is going to happen in terms of reform or a real ...