“It is against army doctrine for armored vehicles to run over human beings”
MERIP (the MIddle East Research and Information Project) has a characteristically excellent article on last week’s horrific army violence against demonstrators in Egypt. The army’s line since the...
View ArticleEgypt: Updates from the new revolution
Fine, I have my tickets. I’m leaving for Cairo on Saturday, and will blog on anything I see there. In the meantime: Video from @Arabist. At least 100,000 people are in Tahrir now. People report a...
View ArticleLivestream of clashes: Video from Mohamed Mahmoud St. in Cairo
© Hossam el-Hamalawy This livestream just started. Mohamed Mahmoud, just east of Midan Tahrir, is the street that has seen some of the most intense clashes between demonstrators and police today, and...
View ArticleEgypt updates
Shari'a Talaat Harb, Nov. 20: Tienanmen II Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has an alternate identity as an emotionally volatile fourteen-year old, sending contradictory SMSes and...
View ArticleEgypt: “Freedom isn’t for free”
L: Mona Eltahawy after her release, with broken left arm and right hand; R: Maged Butter, bandaged after his release. Maged tweets that he and 28 other detainees were freed this morning. He says,...
View ArticleFrom Egypt: Blindness and balloting
I got off the plane in Cairo late Saturday night, and the second person I spoke to was my friend Nada, who came to pick me up. She told me how she was arrested on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Midan...
View ArticleFrom Egypt: The class impasse
So this is what violence in Cairo is like now: the city has grown inured to it. You can stroll down a sidewalk in perfect serenity, and ignore the fact that a few blocks away lies what the foreign...
View ArticleThe Republic of Heliopolis
the anti-Salafis On the last day of the Egyptian revolution proper in February, hours before the announcement that Mubarak was stepping down, some revolutionaries from Midan Tahrir marched on the...
View ArticleThen there were elections, and the fun started: Egypt’s vote
Beard vs. bullets: the Brotherhood’s Morsi and the army’s Shafiq There’s no such thing as “freedom.” There are only freedoms of various sorts, and nearly all of them are freedoms to. Freedom to speak;...
View ArticleCairo diary, December 2012: Walls, women, rape, fear
Tenting tonight in the old campground: In Midan Tahrir, November 27 © Scott Long I was detained at the airport coming into Cairo this time. When the woman at the control desk swiped my passport through...
View ArticleThe killing days
August 16: Old woman, wounded by birdshot at Rabaa El-Adawiya, collapsed on hospital floor. From @SharifKaddous We took a walk after the first massacre. This was August 14, Wednesday, and they had...
View ArticleOrwell on the Nile: Citizens and lepers
Sawt el-Umma, August 18: “Egypt is all Sisi” Cairo lurched to life Sunday, looking ghastly, like Dick Cheney rising up cadaverous and pale each time the Secret Service shocks his heart back into...
View ArticleThe warped reality therapy of Jeffrey Goldberg
Boots, and sandals, on the ground: Clay relief by Egyptian artist Adam Dott, representing the current political situation in Egypt Jeffrey Goldberg is one of those Beltway experts whose main area of...
View ArticlePuppet regime: A few more notes on Egypt and paranoia
No more yarns from you, lady: State Security arrest Abla Fahita The Jews are everywhere; start with that. In fact, the fewer Jews there actually are in your vicinity, the more you have to deal with...
View ArticleEgypt’s “gay wedding” furor: A ship of fools
Hand in hand: Detail from the famous video In Egypt any man can harass, brutalize, and rape a woman. It happens all the time. The State will ignore it for as long as possible; the media will say she...
View ArticleEgypt: Tweet and blog against homophobic brutality, September 24 and 25
Prisoners in the courtroom cage during the Queen Boat trial wear masks to protect themselves from sensation-seeking photographers: Cairo, 2001 URGENT! This Wednesday and Thursday, September 24 and 25,...
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