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Activist Yasmin El-Rifae helped rescue women from sexual assault during Arab Spring protests in Egypt. She talks about her book “Radius,” which confronts the issue of women’s safety.
LONDON — The Egyptians who took to the streets on Jan. 25, 2011, knew what they were doing. They knew they risked arrest and worse. But as their numbers swelled in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, ...
On the 25 January each year, the family of Mostafa Ragab visit his grave in Suez. Killed by several bullets to the chest and head, Ragab, 21 and who worked in a cement factory, was the first casualty ...
The only Arab Spring country that can claim a partial transition to democracy is Tunisia. In Egypt, a tentative experiment with democracy-by-consent-of-the-military quickly floundered.
Relive the spark that spread to the fire of 2011's Arab Spring in Wael Ghonim's memoir, "Revolution 2.0." Read an excerpt.
On Dec. 17, a Tunisian street vendor set himself alight and sparked protests that engulfed the Middle East. Six months and six countries later, the Arab Spring has swept from Tunisia to Cairo.
Egypt’s 2011 revolution changed Sameh Abdelbadie’s life. The uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak, the country’s longtime autocrat, inspired the 18-year-old to paint revolution ...
Just over a week later, on Jan. 25, a cry rang out in Egypt. It was National Police Day, and political opposition groups planned a protest in Cairo, as they had done in years past on the legal holiday ...
Three years after the Jan. 14, 2011, fall of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia continues to be Arab Spring's most promising revolution. Despite economic troubles, bitter disagreements over ...
Ten years after its launch as the first 24-hour free-to-air movie channel in the Arab world, Dubai-based private satcaster MBC2 has become Hollywood’s strongest bridge to the Middle East and an ...
I sincerely hope that there is a now a ‘real’ revolution in Egypt, where there is genuine workers control rather than just a new set of bosses who are friendly to the West. The coming weeks will show ...
After my failed attempt to first invest in Bitcoin in early 2010, I found myself traveling and working in the Middle East, and Egypt in particular, later that year. Inadvertently, the events of the ...
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