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detox • 43 min read

Detox | What was life like before 2011?

Something was bubbling right under the surface, threatening to overflow.

25 January 2020

Sudan • 7 min read

Sudan’s revolution 1 year on: Families of disappeared, martyrs still wait for justice

Mohammed Amin | Military members of the government, especially Hemedti, are likely responsible for the violence.

19 December 2019

Mahmoud al-Sisi • 14 min read

President’s eldest son, Mahmoud al-Sisi, sidelined from powerful intelligence position to diplomatic mission in Russia

The move seeks to alleviate growing tensions within the intelligence apparatus about his role

20 November 2019

Lebanon protests • 16 min read

Southern Lebanon is in revolt too

Omar Said | “They say we are against the revolution? Who? The people of the South? We are the resistance.”

8 November 2019

Lebanon protests • 13 min read

Lebanon’s Tripoli rises above lingering effects of war to revolt

Omar Said | The demonstrations in Tripoli have a different feel from those in the rest of the country.

29 October 2019

Lebanon conversations • 5 min read

Conversations from the Lebanese uprising | Ahmad El Assi: The movement is an opportunity to end the civil war

Omar Said | Our tactical demand is establishing a transitional government that has financial & social priorities

24 October 2019

protester arrests • 8 min read

Biggest wave of arrests since Sisi took office: 1909 people detained

Amnesty International demanded that the authorities allow protests to take place tomorrow

26 September 2019

Mohamed Ali videos • 5 min read

Mohamed Ali fallout continues: Sisi mulls canceling New York trip amid high-level meetings to combat ‘destabilization campaign’

General Intelligence Service Chief Abbas Kamel believes that the move would send a negative message.

20 September 2019

Egypt-Sudan relations • 8 min read

12 killed in nationwide anti-austerity demonstrations in Sudan as police use tear gas and live rounds to disperse protesters

Popular protests in Sudan sparked by inflation, food shortages and rising prices enter third day

21 December 2018

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Opinion

Omar Robert Hamilton

Carbon Colonies & A Green New Deal

Can the climate emergency show us how to see through the political stasis of our current regimes?

14 January 2020

Soheir Asaad

Tali’at: Our Struggle to Reclaim Politics

Our national struggle has yet to develop a radical, non-hierarchical understanding of liberation

16 December 2019

Omar Sirri and Renad Mansour

Surviving on violence: Iraq’s political elite

Violence has helped to sustain this status quo and prevent meaningful reform that could help Iraqis.

10 November 2019

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News

protests • 5 min read

Heavy police presence, random searches around Tahrir ahead of Sept. 20 protest anniversary

16 September 2020

Mohamed Ali videos • 11 min read

Heavy security clampdown on anti-Sisi protests as state mobilizes supporters to rally

27 September 2019

protests • 5 min read

Scattered protests emerge in cities across Egypt Friday night

21 September 2019

Donald Trump • 2 min read

10 people released, 2 journalists detained following protests against US Jerusalem announcement

10 December 2017

protest law • 5 min read

Interior Ministry forbids downtown Cairo protest against US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

9 December 2017

Palestine • 4 min read

Cairo demonstrators protest US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, arrests reported

8 December 2017

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