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Livestream of clashes: Video from Mohamed Mahmoud St. in Cairo
© Hossam el-Hamalawy This livestream just started. Mohamed Mahmoud, just east of Midan Tahrir, is the street that has seen some of the most intense clashes between demonstrators and police today, and...
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More video from Egypt
If you speak Arabic, go to the ONtveg channel on Youtube. (ONtv is a new, independent, liberal TV channel in Egypt.) In the long clips just posted, popular host Yosri Fouda is grilling the Central...
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In Cairo: “a powerful incapacitating gas”
"Dr. Rania": reportedly "suffocated to death by invisible gas while volunteering at Tahrir Hospital", http://pic.twitter.com/NY3HbD1I I eat my words. The Guardian reports “strong evidence that at least...
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Egypt updates
Shari'a Talaat Harb, Nov. 20: Tienanmen II Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has an alternate identity as an emotionally volatile fourteen-year old, sending contradictory SMSes and...
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Egypt: “Freedom isn’t for free”
L: Mona Eltahawy after her release, with broken left arm and right hand; R: Maged Butter, bandaged after his release. Maged tweets that he and 28 other detainees were freed this morning. He says,...
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From Egypt: Blindness and balloting
I got off the plane in Cairo late Saturday night, and the second person I spoke to was my friend Nada, who came to pick me up. She told me how she was arrested on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Midan...
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The Republic of Heliopolis
the anti-Salafis On the last day of the Egyptian revolution proper in February, hours before the announcement that Mubarak was stepping down, some revolutionaries from Midan Tahrir marched on the...
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Tahrir 360
Check this out; it’s extremely neat. It’s based on photographs taken on November 22, the third day of the massive state violence that beset Cairo for a week, and left more than forty dead and dozens...
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Marshal Tantawi, tear down that wall!
Back in December, as a move to stop insistent demonstrations around Midan Tahrir, the ruling Egyptian junta tried to wall off access points to the square. Above, you can see them building a wall...
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Razan Ghazzawi receives award; Egyptian women attacked in Tahrir Square
Video on Razan’s work, from Front Line Defenders Razan Ghazzawi, whom I’m proud to call my friend, received the Front Line Defenders 2012 award Thursday, from the Irish group dedicated to the security...
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The killing days
August 16: Old woman, wounded by birdshot at Rabaa El-Adawiya, collapsed on hospital floor. From @SharifKaddous We took a walk after the first massacre. This was August 14, Wednesday, and they had...
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Orwell on the Nile: Citizens and lepers
Sawt el-Umma, August 18: “Egypt is all Sisi” Cairo lurched to life Sunday, looking ghastly, like Dick Cheney rising up cadaverous and pale each time the Secret Service shocks his heart back into...
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The flight into Egypt
Joseph Tissot, The Flight into Egypt, ca. 1886-1894 None of this will make sense. You can’t make things make sense in Cairo these days. The curfew and the stir-craziness prevent it. If you speak...
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In Dream Park: A day without Adorno
Spill Water ride at Dream Park: This was really fun (self not in picture) Yesterday, with four good friends, I went to Dream Park. Doesn’t that sound like the beginning of Pilgrim’s Progress? If you...
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New arrests for “homosexuality” in Egypt
Down these mean streets: El Marg district in northeastern Cairo I wish some Egyptian Joan Didion could visit El-Marg. She might turn this dry outcropping of Cairo into a fear-saturated landscape like...
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Brutal gender crackdown in Egypt: The tomorrows that never came
Heartbreaking epitaph for Egypt’s revolution: “Remember the tomorrows that never came?” Graffiti in Cairo by street artist Keizer (https://www.facebook.com/KeizerStreetArt) You go home, you lock your...
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Policing Pride
Stonewall riot, New York City, June 27, 1969 Forty-five years ago yesterday, the Stonewall riots began, the reason Pride happens at this season. I have a Dark Gay Secret: I’ve never enjoyed most...
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Egypt’s “gay wedding” furor: A ship of fools
Hand in hand: Detail from the famous video In Egypt any man can harass, brutalize, and rape a woman. It happens all the time. The State will ignore it for as long as possible; the media will say she...
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Egypt: Tweet and blog against homophobic brutality, September 24 and 25
Prisoners in the courtroom cage during the Queen Boat trial wear masks to protect themselves from sensation-seeking photographers: Cairo, 2001 URGENT! This Wednesday and Thursday, September 24 and 25,...
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Dozens arrested for “perversion” in a huge raid in Cairo
Arrested men from the Bab el-Bahr hammam being herded into a Central Security truck, December 7, 2014. The woman with a cameraphone to the right appears to be Mona Iraqi. At about 10 PM last night,...
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