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In early 2011, as she watched the removal of the graffiti that had been scrawled around Tahrir Square in the heady days of the popular uprising, followed by a “cleansing” of that space of revolt, Dina Heshmat realized she was witnessing the deliberate rewriting of history, a deletion of the people’s spontaneous discourse, to be replaced by a more elitist narrative. Guided by this awareness, Heshmat sets out, in Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film, (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) to re-examine the Egyptian revolution of the previous century, looking into the country’...

Nearly 10 years ago, in February 2011, British prime minister David Cameron set out on a tour of the Gulf states, all close UK allies, with a bevy of representatives of the UK defence industry in tow. Occurring in the middle of the Arab Spring, when repressive regimes were being toppled in popular uprisings, the government feared its lucrative cosiness with Gulf autocrats could send the wrong message and it tacked a last-minute stopover on to the itinerary: Egypt, where veteran ruler Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power for 30 years, had just been overthrown. Cameron briefly descended upon Ca...

As a charismatic revolutionary from a scrappy Cairo neighbourhood, Ahmed Hassan was one of the stars of Jehane Noujaim’s 2013 documentary The Square, which followed a group of Egyptian activists as they toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and then fought to keep their faltering revolution alive. The film won three Emmy Awards and was nominated for the Oscars. But Hassan’s life got harder after it was released. His work as a cinematographer and filmmaker dried up as production companies stopped hiring him, perhaps because he was blacklisted. He had to abandon a film project after ...

Published date: 21 December 2020 15:43 UTC | Last update: 3 months ago The French president is launching nothing less ambitious than a secular crusade. Not to save Jerusalem, but to save France's imaginary republican soul French President Emmanuel Macron on 14 December (AFP) For four years, French prosecutors strained every sinew to prove that a multinational jihadist conspiracy was behind the attacks on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris. A total of 17 were killed in gun attacks that spread across three days and stunned ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi It is high time for US and EU to get tough with Trump's "favorite dictator"-Egypt's President Abdel-Fatah al- Sisi ANI | Updated: Dec 21, 2020 11:54 IST By John Solomou Nicosia [Cyprus], December 21 (ANI): The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ruler of the most populous Arab country, in his seven-year iron rule has been violating almost all human rights of the relevant Universal Declaration, but so far has been treated scandalously gently by the United States and the European Union. According to the U.S....