February 11 in 2011 was a day that Egyptians had waited decades to see. After less than a month of widespread popular protests, the country’s ruler of 30 years, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down. The Arab ...

There is a song midway through the new musical We Live in Cairo, which follows six American University of Cairo students during the Egyptian Revolution, that clicks with today’s student activists just ...

Ten years ago today, mass protests began in Egypt that led 18 days later to the fall of long-standing dictator Hosni Mubarak, electrifying workers and youth worldwide. The Egyptian revolution was a ...

'Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution' documents the 25 January 2011 uprising and its aftermath through the prism of popular culture, showing how Egyptians have narrated their ...

This documentary is a chronological historic testimony of the 18 days of the Egyptian revolution counted by 6 participants among whom: Five Egyptians who followed the remote revolution through the ...

Five people were shot dead in the Egyptian city of Suez during nationwide protests against President Mohamed Morsi on Friday, the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. One of ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. “Thieves and thugs” is our taxi driver’s description of the people we will meet on the third-class train from Aswan to Luxor.

Ten years ago, between January 25 and February 11, 2011, a revolution of the Egyptian working class overthrew the US-backed dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak that had ruled the country for decades. Weeks ...