Egyptian writer Hamdy El-Gazzar introduces From Egypt, a new Sampsonia Way column with which the author will attempt to draw a cultural map of Egypt and the Arab world by profiling the artistic, literary, and political issues that affect the region.
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Egyptian authorities banned the screening of a Cairo Exit, a film depicting a love story between a Muslim man and Coptic Christian woman. Hesham Issawi’s film was slated to be screened on February 27 at the Luxor African Film Festival.
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Reporters Without Borders has this year, for the first time, compiled a list of the world’s 10 most dangerous places for the media – the 10 cities, districts, squares, provinces, or regions where journalists and netizens were particularly exposed to violence and where freedom of information was flouted.
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To mark the one-year anniversary of the “Day of Revolt” that triggered the Egyptian Revolution, we share our coverage of events the from last year, including interviews with journalists, bloggers, and writers, as well as personal statements from imprisoned activists, among other articles.
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To mark the one-year anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution we publish a story from Egyptian writer Hamdy El-Gazzar’s book Our Revolution: Stories to Fit in the Palm of Your Hand.
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Democracy Now speaks to Fattah about the Egyptian revolution’s ongoing struggle against the military regime and his ordeal in one of Egypt’s worst prisons.
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In this interview, Democracy Now correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous talks about the nature of reporting from Tahrir Square, the role his nationality plays in covering the uprisings, and how reporting in Cairo has changed over the course of the uprisings.
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