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Despair in Tahrir Square: "We don’t trust the military or the Muslim...
Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets Monday night following the announcement of the official results of the presidential election's first round. In the capital, but also in several other cities...
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The protesters of Tahrir Square: democratic watchdogs or 'naive minority'?
Cairo’s Tahrir Square has been besieged by protesters every day since former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was handed his sentence Saturday. Demonstrators claim the country’s justice system is...
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Meet the parkour athletes of the Great Pyramids
You may have heard of parkour, the physical discipline that involves moving around urban obstacles as swiftly as possible, and which includes everything from scaling walls to backflips to leaping...
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Security forces destroy second-hand book stalls in Alexandria
Alexandria’s Prophet Daniel Street (“Ennaby Daniel” in Arabic) is one of Egypt’s most well-known streets, thanks to its famous second-hand book stalls. However, the cultural life of the street came...
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French expats react to embassy closures
France has ordered the closure of its embassies, schools, and embassies Friday in 20 countries, mostly in the Muslim world. The French government is worried that these institutions could be targeted...
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Egyptian hospitals on strike: “The Muslim Brotherhood wants to maintain a...
On Monday morning, more than 500 public hospitals in Egypt began an unlimited national strike. The staff is calling for, among other things, a tripling of the budget allocated to the public health...
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Anti-sexual harassment squads patrol the streets of Cairo
Sexual harassment has plagued Egypt for years, and it’s getting worse. Today, more than 80% of Egyptian women saying they’ve been victimized. Faced with the government’s inertia, a group of men has...
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Morsi’s new powers: "necessary" or "dictatorial"?
Egypt’s Islamist president Mohammed Morsi has granted himself a slew of new powers, prompting protests throughout Egypt on Friday. Those protesting fear that their first elected president since the...
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Trees vanishing from post-revolution Cairo
The once-lush Cairo suburb of Heliopolis is noticeably less green than it was two years ago, before the Egyptian revolution. Our Observer tells us that both local authorities and residents have been...
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Egyptians outraged over the 'torture' death of an opposition activist
On Wednesday night, dozens of people gathered in front of the home of Mohamed el-Gendi, an opposition activist who died under murky circumstances on Monday. They came to pay their respects and...
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Women brandish knives to protest sexual harassment in Cairo
Following a spate of attacks on women during recent anti-government protests, hundreds of people marched through downtown Cairo on Wednesday, including a few dozen women brandishing knives and batons....
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Witness recounts harrowing sexual assault by Tahrir Square mob
The video of a sexual assault in Tahrir Square on January 25 – the day Egyptians commemorated their revolution’s two-year anniversary – caused outrage the world over. That day, our Observer Mostafa...
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Eyewitnesses saw Egypt balloon crash victims 'jump into the sky'
Nineteen people were killed when a hot air balloon carried 20 tourists exploded Tuesday morning in Luxor, Egypt. Eyewitnesses were able to take photos just minutes before and after the tragedy, and...
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Amateur videos capture locusts swarming Cairo
Political instability, economic hardship and now a locust infestation: the list of Egyptian woes keeps on growing. The insects were expected to bypass Cairo on their journey up from sub-Saharan...
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Police strike in Egypt: “we’re bearing the brunt of the govt’s mistakes”
Frustration over poor working conditions has boiled over in the ranks of the Egyptian police. For the past week, local police forces and anti-riot brigades across the country have gone on strike,...
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Libyan militia accused of torturing Christian Copts
Egyptian Copts are up in arms following the suspicious death last Monday of a Coptic Christian in a Libyan prison. The man was part of a group of Egyptian Copt shopkeepers who have been living in...
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Egypt hit by spate of mob killings
Over the past few months, several Egyptian villages have borne witness to extremely cruel lynchings, in which bodies are often hung in public for all to see. Two Observers, still shaken, describe the...
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On the menu at Egypt’s most prestigious university: maggots and nails
Students at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo are furious. They have been protesting against the dismal hygienic conditions at their university after several hundred students fell ill due to food...
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