25 January revolution

Revolutions, as students of the French and the Russian ones know full well, require an inflammatory event, something that Vladimir…

Asef Bayat, a professor of sociology and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who previously taught…

1 Before he got out of his car, his mobile phone had already begun to ring.“No sir, like you know, they’re…

Thousands of protesters occupied Tahrir Square throughout the day Friday in a protest they have called the "Friday of the…

Salafi preachers Mohamed Hassan and Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud issued a fatwa (religious edict) on Thursday saying that families of martyrs…

CAIRO — Egypt's tourism minister says revenues from the vital tourism sector fell by nearly 30 percent in 2011 compared…

Two months after mass protests ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last February, Ahmed Essam resigned from his job at a…

Cairo's Administrative Court on Wednesday issued a ruling ordering the government to give exceptional pensions to the injured victims of…

Prominent Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkul Karman expressed a desire to visit Egypt and participate in demonstrations…

A former security official, who was a witness in the trial of deposed President Hosni Mubarak has said, he was…