Intellectuals in the Middle East and intellectuals in Europe and the US interested in the Middle East are so funny, so optimistic and so opportunists (in the negative sense)…I remember

Who Is Going To Defend Us? To Silence Its Voice Hisham Mubarak Law Center Is Under Attack Defending the victims of human rights violations is one of the most significant

Police released the remaining Kefaya activists in custody today in the afternoon, after they spent their night in the Qattamiya desert, locked up in two prison trucks. There were two

Today, activists demonstrated in DC and NYC on behalf of the detainees in Egypt, and to express their opposition to Mubarak’s dictatorial consitutional amendments. Click on the photo below to

Around 3,000 activists demonstrated in Alexandria’s Manshiya Square today for two hours against Mubarak’s authoritarian constitutional amendments…

Al-Jazeera is reporting "very low" turnout in the referendum voting so far, especially in Cairo where voting would usually be expected to be high (Kefaya is also reporting weak turnout

Egyptians have been trickling in to vote in a referendum on constitutional amendments which would help the government exclude opposition groups from the political system. Hosni Mubar

It was a time when you felt you were covering a profound historic shift. Not a single, compact, dramatic event but rather gradual but palpable change which shakes all your

Click on the thumbnail below to read a letter of support to Egyptians against the amendments from the School of Oriental and African Studies’ Student Union.

Our friends Joel Beinin and Hossam el-Hamalawy have a MERIP piece on the recent strikes in Egypt, looking at some of the biggest strikes of recent months, the workers’ fight