March 8 marked International Working Women’s Day and March 16 celebrated Egyptian Women’s Day, the anniversary of the first large feminist demonstration in 1919 and the founding of the Egyptian Women’s Union of 1923. March is, therefore, a good opportunity to reflect on the status of Egyptian women and Egyptian feminist movements amid the existing […]

S3Geeks, or Saeedy Geeks (Upper Egyptian Geeks) is an initiative founded and run by Egyptian young people from Upper Egypt who aim to create a new entrepreneurship and technological community as well as provide work opportunities for millions of young people in Upper Egypt. S3Geeks, or Saeedy Geeks (Upper Egyptian Geeks) is an initiative founded […]

Shirin Abu Naja’s new book, Transitional Intellectual: Dictatorship to Rebellion examines the role of the intellectual as a revolutionary during the period spanning from the outbreak of the January 25 revolution in 2011 until the Muslim Brotherhood’s rise to power in June 2012.   Shirin Abu Naja’s new book, Transitional Intellectual: Dictatorship to Rebellion examines […]

Wooden clogs or qubqab in Arabic have long been manufactured in Egypt. They also have appeared in Egyptian tales, the most famous of which dates back to 1257 when Om Ali, the widow of the first Mamluk Sultan Ezzedine Eibak was said to have ordered her maidservants to beat Shajartul Dor – the Queen whom […]

As youth began to organize the revolution that would topple Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian comic Shennawi was attending the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France in late 2010 and he was surprised to discover many comic magazines produced by young people like himself. Shortly thereafter, Shennawi and a group of visual artists and caricaturists created Tuk […]

Khaled al-Balshi served as editor-in-chief of the controversial yet distinguished Al-Badeel newspaper before it was closed in 2009 (succeeding researcher and writer Mohammad Sayed Said in 2008), when only very few private journalism platforms existed and the government used various tricks and complicated deals to close media platforms that did not fall under its control. […]

It was not her family that gave 25-year-old N. W. troubles about her sexual orientation. The sarcastic comments about gays and lesbians have come from her friends, some of whom have even rejected her since finding out that N.W. is a lesbian. It was not her family that gave 25-year-old N. W. troubles about her […]

A few days after activist Shaimaa Sabbagh was fatally shot during demonstrations on the eve of the fourth anniversary of Egypt’s 25 January uprising, one could say that the situation is now calm.  When it was all over, the Ministry of Health announced that 17 people had been killed and 69 injured. A few days […]

When a woman in our country assumes the leadership of an institution it is an event that calls for joy and pride, particularly if the institution in question is a democratic one such as an opposition party, a syndicate, or an independent student union trying to establish its position through hard work and not as […]

The Diwan (place where tribes gather) was full of the sons from the al-Ammari family when Muhammad Khalil Abu al-Majd al-Ammari, a former member of the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP), announced that he would nominate himself in the first elections to be held in Egypt since the June 30 Revolution. Hamada’s mere presence at […]