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Among the Muslim Brothers

Two months after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptian politics are a dervish of confused agitation. Each day, it seems, a new party forms to fill liberal, Nasserist, Marxist, Islamist and other niches. A joke has it that 10% of Egyptians plan … read more

Army officers join Cairo protest

Throngs of people crowded into Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday in an effort to inject new life into Egypt’s revolution and push the country’s ruling military council to prosecute the former president, Hosni Mubarak, who stepped down under immense popular … read more

Clashes erupt around Cairo’s Tahrir Square

Hundreds of protesters demanding that Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, be put on trial for alleged corruption, have retaken Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square, hours after security forces attempted to disperse them. By 7am (local time) on Saturday morning, army … read more

What Egyptian revolution?

As everyone knows, Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt could be a harsh and repressive place. A little over a year ago, in February 2010, blogger Ahmed Mustafa found this out firsthand. An engineering student from Upper Egypt, Mustafa was arrested that month … read more

Protests Go On, Seeking New Beginning

Banners fluttering from the rooftop of Cairo University’s faculty of mass communications denounce the dean as a Mubarak-era lackey. Fistfights between the dean’s student opponents and supporters erupt like summer squalls, with the din often emptying classrooms as students pour … read more

Mubarak’s former chief of staff arrested

Egyptian state prosecutors have ordered that a former top aide to Hosni Mubarak, the country’s ousted president, be jailed for 15 days pending a corruption investigation. Zakaria Azmi, Mubarak’s chief of staff for 22 years, was arrested on Thursday after … read more

Military warns troops not to join Friday protest

Egypt’s ruling military council is threatening immediate prosecution before a military tribunal for any troops seen participating in a planned protest in Cairo on Friday. The stern warning, which came Thursday, appeared to be a response to a campaign of … read more