Why Gaza will prove to be a game-changing event
I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
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I don’t have any answers, but anybody who thinks there can be anything “permanent” in the disorder thus created is crazy.
Egypt’s political roadmap is altered so that the president will be elected before parliament is. It hastens the likely election of army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as head of state.
Twelve people are killed in Cairo, security sources say, as Egypt marks the third anniversary of the revolution that led to the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
As Egypt detains three Al-Jazeera journalists, a British correspondent based in Cairo tells Channel 4 News that reporting from the region has become “darker and more complicated”.
Judges in Egypt walk out after leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood shout slogans and refuse to co-operate as they appear in court.
Two years on from the Arab Spring, Egypt is teetering on the bring of chaos. Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones looks at the country’s prospects for peace – or civil war.
Today’s violent assault on the Muslim Brotherhood encampments in Cairo marks a victory for the security state led by General Sisi Lindsey Hilsum writes.
It is claimed as many as 100 supporters of ousted President Morsi have been shot dead by security forces, as William Hague condemns the latest violence in Egypt’s capital, Cairo.
Two people have been killed and at least 19 injured as rival protesters clash in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria. Tens of thousands are on the streets of the capital, Cairo.
Beyond the political unrest in Egypt, lies a complex social and religious problem: sexual assaults against women.
The cavalier dismissal by new revolutionaries of the death of their opponents brings to mind the bad old ways of the Mubarak regime.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls for an uprising after dozens are killed in a bloody shooting at the Republican Guard headquarters in Cairo, where ousted president Mohamed Morsi is being held.
“Waste your summer praying in vain, For a saviour to rise from these streets” – what Bruce Springsteen can teach us about Egypt and the Arab Spring.
I’ve spent the day in Cairo trying to get out and speak to as many ordinary people as possible to see what it felt the day after another revolution.
What now? I’m looking onto Tahrir Square and the crowds are growing again. Not on the same scale as yesterday. But they clearly do not want to stop. They need to show this second uprising has popular support. They know that pro-Morsi protests are taking place too in Cairo, that his supporters are portraying this…