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RollingStone.com
February 18, 2018
Two years ago, Chadwick Boseman was in a movie called Gods of Egypt. It was not a very good movie. But in addition to its not-goodness, it also became infamous for whitewashing – casting, as ancient African deities, a white guy from Scotland, a white guy from Denmark and at least seven white peopleÃÂ ...
Jacobin magazine
February 11, 2018
Seven years after Hosni Mubarak was forced from office, Egypt is in the middle of an ugly counterrevolution. ... Over the last two years, as part of his portrait series Revolution of the Mind, he documented the traumatic accounts of several Egyptian youth who have faced, in particular, civilian-led smearÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
February 11, 2018
The president opts instead to work with Egypt's youth, who were instrumental in the 2011 uprisings that brought down Mubarak. In 2016, al-Sisi hosted the First Egyptian Youth Conference, aimed at "extending effective communication channels among the Egyptian government and prominent EgyptianÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
February 7, 2018
Return on investment in Egypt is higher than in any other country in the world, Egyptian telecommunications giant, Naguib Sawiris, has said. ... Since the January 2011 revolution, Egypt has not succeeded in achieving any of its targets with regard to attracting foreign direct investments due to the ongoingÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
February 6, 2018
The contributor, also a co-founder of Mosireen, told Al-Monitor that the archiving is essential to gain more control over the current narrative in Egypt. “Right now, the counterrevolution is engaged in a battle of history, and there is a bit of competition over history from the beginning of the revolution,” he said.
LobeLog
February 6, 2018
This revolution toppled one of the strongest dictators in the Middle East, but because it was a revolution by all the people, it failed to present a leader of its own. ... Right after the announcement, Shafik declared that the UAE was holding him captive in the UAE, preventing him from returning to Egypt.
Voice of America
January 29, 2018
Seven years after ebullient crowds demonstrated in Cairo to oust longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, in what became one of the most visible flash points of the Arab Spring, Egypt is bracing for presidential elections in March that will serve as a test of what the country gained and lost as a result of those turbulentÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
January 29, 2018
As much as I wanted The Solar Grid to be a retelling of the Egyptian revolution, Ganzeer says the idea is more universal than that. “The motive of it is not Egypt,” he told me. “The seed of it is [the] consequence of environmental connotations, and the part of the story where we have the two most unassumingÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
January 29, 2018
Egypt's 25 January revolution remains one of the greatest political events of the past century in the Arab world and perhaps beyond. Despite all critiques, there is no event comparable to it, in terms of both magnitude and impact. When Tunisians succeeded in overthrowing their regime on 14 January 2011,ÃÂ ...
The New Arab
January 29, 2018
Book review: Bassiouni's account of Egypt's revolution is an engaging insight into Egypt's Arab Spring and its aftermath, from the side of state power, writes Laith Saud.
The Atlantic
January 25, 2018
The Egyptian historian Khaled Fahmy, a professor at the University of Cambridge, has argued that the lack of access to public records leaves wide gaps in the understanding of Egypt's 1952 revolution, in which military officers overthrew the British-backed monarchy. “The intelligence services' power derivesÃÂ ...
The Nation.
January 22, 2018
In Egypt we do not have the pretense of a society that is equal or one in which women's rights are protected. While the Trump presidency may have stripped America of this veneer, it's still widely understood that things are “better” in America for women than they are in Egypt. In fact, news outlets recentlyÃÂ ...
The Majalla Magazine
December 31, 1999
The film, which was initially called “Days of Anger and Revolution,” is a drama which tells the story of Egypt following the 25 January revolution. It follows the events of the Tahrir Square demonstrations, the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood's 1 year rule and the 30 JanuaryÃÂ ...
Egypttoday (blog)
November 29, 2017
Commemorating the late Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm ... During the 2011 Egyptian revolution, protesters chanted lines from his poems ...
Egypttoday (blog)
November 29, 2017
CAIRO- 28 November 2017: Tourists returning to Egypt after a dry spell caused by the post-2011 revolution unrest, U.S. radio station “BRI” ...
BBC News
November 29, 2017
A massacre at a mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last week that claimed more than 300 lives has focused ... After the 2011 revolution that overthrew Mubarak, they entered politics with the Sufi Egyptian Liberation party.
Aljazeera.com
November 28, 2017
An Egyptian court has dropped a case against prominent opposition leader ... Nour, the leader of the Ghad al-Thawra (Tomorrow's Revolution)Â ...
Aljazeera.com
November 28, 2017
One of Egypt's leading opposition figures has told Al Jazeera that the ... the Egyptian revolution...and turned Egypt into a swamp of tyranny.".
BBC News
November 27, 2017
Friday's attack on a Sinai mosque was Egypt's deadliest in recent ... The intensity of this Friday's attack in Sinai is unprecedented in modern Egyptian history ... and author of A Revolution Undone: Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt.
Modern Diplomacy
November 20, 2017
Egypt remained as a regional rival to Iran. Therefore, Iranian administration welcomed revolution in Egypt and asked Mubarak to transfer the ...
The Atlantic
November 20, 2017
“It's a hard time to tell the truth in Egypt,” says Magdy El Shafee, cartoonist and ... Ask El Shafee, called by Newsweek “the godfather of Egyptian ...
JNS.org
November 15, 2017
The Shabbat revolution: a movement of unity, peace and connection ... ingredient to everyday success—or to transformative social revolutions. Yes, the “Arab Spring” upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt and throughout the Arab world ...
Middle East Eye
November 15, 2017
Is Egypt's fugitive security chief advising bin Salman on the Saudi purge? ... According to one of Adly's advisors and a former Egyptian interior minister ... who “sought to crush the January 25 revolution” have all been released, ...
Newsweek
November 15, 2017
Ancient Egyptian Mummy Buried Wearing Golden Sky God Mask Discovered In ... Following Egypt's 2011 revolution and the extended period of ...
Digital Journal
November 8, 2017
An Egyptian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a five-year jail term for Alaa Abdel Fattah, a leading dissident in the 2011 uprising that ...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
November 7, 2017
Smith lecture covers the Egyptian revolution's concept of 'dignity' ... in the specific context of Egypt during the 2011 Arab Spring protests.
Hilltop Views
November 7, 2017
Essam hails from Egypt and has become a prominent figure of social activism, frequently referred to as “The Voice of the Egyptian Revolution.
UT The Daily Texan
November 1, 2017
The revolution sparked when protesters against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak lead demonstrations across Egypt, speaking out ...
Middle East Monitor
October 25, 2017
Egypt: Population jumps 16m people after 2011 revolution ... The Egyptian official noted that China's population growth represents half of the ...
Daily News Egypt
October 15, 2017
Egypt said Saturday it is following with concern the announcement of the ... revolution, which was followed by statements from former Egyptian ...
Arab News
October 14, 2017
Sadly, most Egyptian politicians today tend to favor their political ... ethics, so the genuine reforms that were the revolution's objectives were not ...
Al-Monitor
October 14, 2017
The Egyptian movie world is chock full of films glorifying the country's military ... Ahmed Abou Hashima, who is close to President Sisi and Egypt's military. ... promote the 1952 Egyptian revolution, but were not very persuasive.
Al-Monitor
October 13, 2017
'Nile Hilton Incident' tops box offices everywhere but Egypt ... Egyptian-Swedish Tarik Saleh's award-winning noir thriller offers both a glimpse into ... freedom, many have grown disillusioned with the revolution, but not Saleh.
Hindustan Times
September 25, 2017
Egyptian photographer Laura El Tantawy, with her project, In the Shadow of ... The Arab Spring-inspired revolution in Egypt that resulted in the ...
The Guardian
September 24, 2017
... Cairo in the two years in the run-up to the Egyptian revolution in 2011. ... effectively banned in Egypt after being unceremoniously pulled from ...
Ars Technica
December 31, 1999
From 305 BCE to 30 BCE, ancient Egypt was ruled by the Ptolemaic ... Perhaps because they were being ruled by foreigners, the Egyptian ...
Euromoney magazine
December 31, 1999
Egypt seeks financial inclusion with a digital revolution .... “The Egyptian government aims to minimize cash circulation and fintechs are helping ...
CBC.ca
December 31, 1999
Omar Robert Hamilton's debut novel, The City Always Wins (out now), is a fictional account of the Egypt Revolution of 2011, wrapped up in truth ...
Dallas News
August 4, 2017
Live from Cairo, Ian Bassingthwaighte's debut novel, is set in Egypt during the ... power to the Egyptian military's Supreme Council, but protesters continued ... "the revolution was still a spark suspended over a pool of gasoline.
The Guardian
August 4, 2017
This astounding debut novel, by British-Egyptian film-maker Omar Robert ... opens after the seeming triumph of the 2011 Egyptian revolution'sÃÂ ...
Open Democracy
August 4, 2017
Unlike other movements for social change, the Egyptian protest ... only needs to remind state worshipers that a successful social revolution,ÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
August 3, 2017
CAIRO — Egyptian rock band Cairokee did not give up when the General ... "Al-Kayf" was the most popular song in Egypt in July, even after Egyptian pop ... in which activists from the January 25 Revolution are being pursuedÃÂ ...
Egyptian Streets
August 2, 2017
Egypt's foreign reserves rose by $US 4.73 billion, reaching $36.0 in total which is ... the 25 January 2011 revolution, according to Egypt's Central Bank data. ... The value of Egyptian pound has dropped to half since its flotationÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
August 2, 2017
On its 65th anniversary, the Egyptian Free Officers' movement and the regime that was born from its womb continues to stir interest, debate andÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
August 1, 2017
“It's like the revolution didn't happen,” Kamal Mougheeth, a researcher at Egypt's National Council for Education, told the Washington Post atÃÂ ...
Manila Bulletin
July 22, 2017
July 23 every year is celebrated as Revolution Day in Egypt. It commemorates the day in 1952 when the Egyptian Revolution was carried outÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
July 21, 2017
The film did not stir controversy because it is political or because it focuses on one of the most sensitive political events in Egyptian history;ÃÂ ...
The Advocate
July 8, 2017
Yehia Elkersh was 12 when he first heard the marching and chanting from the streets outside his family's home in Alexandria, Egypt. He wasÃÂ ...
Concord Register
March 27, 2017
... nongold coins shipped from Turkey to the U.S. has since 2003, when the Iraq War started. A , also published in 2016, revealed that the number of gold and nongold coins being shipped from Egypt to the U.S. increased after the 2011 Egyptian ...
The Indian Express
March 26, 2017
Egypt's North Sinai has witnessed many terror attacks since the January 2011 revolution that toppled the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The attacks, mainly targeting police and military, increased after the ouster of Islamist ex-president ...
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