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22 Apr 2011
When he died with the depression that had stayed with him since the 1967 Egyptian defeat by Israeli forces, Egypt’s most renowned colloquial poet couldn’t know that on the 25th anniversary of his death people would be...
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20 Apr 2011
Most Egyptians would agree that the 25 January revolution deserves a place in the Egyptian Museum — the most prominent and well-established museum in the country, and a fixture in Tahrir Square, the center of the protests. But...
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27 Mar 2011
Alexandria--“That’s a major success,” said poet Hamdy Zidan, describing the large audience who came to the ceremony commemorating the 129th anniversary of legendary Egyptian singer Sayyed Darwish.
Anyone could see the...
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23 Mar 2011
On 17 December 2010, 26-year old Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia after the local authorities confiscated his vegetable stall. “How many people would have predicted that the death of a vegetable seller in...
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22 Mar 2011
Although the Egyptian revolution has been full of highlights, the human shield that pro-democracy protesters formed spontaneously to protect the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square on 28 January is an event marked with indelible ink. It was...
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17 Mar 2011
The photographic archive of Fatima Hanem Chahin is a treasure trove that includes thousands of pictures she took throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps the most prominent is her collection on the 1919 revolution, which she shot while...
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16 Mar 2011
Since 25 January, Egypt’s many museums and archaeological sites have been the victims of looting. Yesterday, it was announced that 54 items are missing from the Egyptian Museum, contrary to the claims of former Secretary General of...
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15 Mar 2011
Amid heated debates on the Egyptian Constitution and two weeks before the referendum on proposed amendments to it, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Wadleigh gave a lecture at the American University in Cairo titled "The Future...
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09 Mar 2011
On 26 February, a mob attacked the mausoleum of Mohamed Sherif Pasha in Cairo’s Al-Sayeda Naffissa district, looting its entire store of antique furniture and artifacts at an estimated value of LE8 million. The mausoleum has a rich...
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04 Mar 2011
Because women were left off the committee to revise the constitution, many worry that their demands will not be heard in a post-Mubarak Egypt. In order to prevent that, a number of activists--men and women--are planning a Million Woman...
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