Articles from the Egyptian Revolution
27.1.2011
It's Egypt's young who are leading the protests
Patience is a virtue – maybe even the supreme one in Egypt's popular hierarchy of values, but patience also has its limits and, now, at last, it seems as if we've arrived at ours.
28.1.2011
An Eyewitness Account
This is the scene that took place in every district of every city in Egypt today. The one I saw: we started off as about 20 activists, after Friday prayers in a small mosque in the interior of the popular Cairo district of Imbaba. "The people - demand – the fall of this regime!"
1.2.2011
Mubarak’s regime cannot satisfy the demands of Egyptians
The regime of President Hosni Mubarak is fighting for its life in Egypt. But shape-shift as it may, it cannot satisfy the demands of the Egyptian people. As today's gathering will show, they will not be fooled by the swearing-in of a new government that resembles 99% of the old one.
2.2.2011
The Egyptian regime has turned its thugs loose again
I knew something was wrong when I woke up to the sound of car horns. It's been so quiet and peaceful the last few days we've even started seeing the bats once again flitting in and out of the fruit trees at dusk. This wasn't the normal noise of Cairo traffic; this was aggressive, patterned and constant, like what you get after a football match only lots more so.
4.2.2011
We Will Not Turn Back
As you start reading this, you will know something I don't: you will know how this day – Friday 4 February – has turned out for us.
11.2.2011
'He's not going? What the hell does he want?'
The clock on the Arab League building said 8.30. Everyone was in Tahrir Square. I stood in front of one of the many impromptu stages – stood isn't quite right. I bounced. Everybody was clapping, swaying, singing.
11.2.2011
'Look at the streets … This is what hope looks like'
The joy cries filled the air – across Egypt the joy cries filled the air.
8.3.2011
In Egypt it was silence or shouting. Now it's a great conversation
There was a moment in Tahrir, early on, when sitting on a low wall I watched two young men walking towards me, deep in conversation. One was saying: "The parliamentary system will be better for us because we need to break away from the cult of the leader," and the other interrupted: "But the 'leader' doesn't have to be a dictator; he could be a useful …" and then they were out of earshot.
11.10.2011
The attack on Egyptian Christians was not sectarian. We will uncover the truth
This latest outrage, leaving 25 people dead, is yet one more episode in the dirty drama we hoped our revolution would pull the final curtain on. It beggars belief that it continues, and that it elicits the same obsolete responses.
22.11.2011
Egypt's military government is the enemy of our revolution
The resignation of the cabinet comes in protest at the killing of protesters on the streets of the country. As I write, the tally of people the army and police have killed since Saturday stands at more than 30.
For several nights after the curfew was declared on 14 August, the streets of Cairo were quieter and darker than I'd ever seen them. As quiet as the morgue, the saying goes, except that our morgue, in Zeinhom, was the busiest place in the city