The secret royal wedding, the start of a revolution and the first of many papal trips around the world.
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Updated Jan. 25, 2024 at 12:15 p.m. After the revolution in Tunisia, anti-regime protests spread to Egypt, sparking two weeks of deadly clashes. How did the Jan. 25 Revolution begin? As a statement against increasing police brutality during the last few years of Hosni Mubarak‘s presidency, young people in Egypt ran demonstrations, marches, occupations of […]
CAIRO — After Asmaa Hamdy’s release from prison, where she spent three years, she began the desperate search for her fiancé who had disappeared shortly before she was let out. A dentistry student at Al-Azhar University, Hamdy was one of the students arrested by police following the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. […]
-Essay- CAIRO — Every year, on Jan. 25, I have the same thought: I don’t have any memories to share. Every time I’m with friends who nostalgically remember moments of happiness and triumph, I stay silent, because I have no memories to share. During the 18 days of the revolution, I was in Gambia, watching […]
SHARM EL-SHEIKH — Abu Saleh (not his real name) used to earn his money giving camel tours to tourists. But now the Egyptian Bedouin farms his 340-square-meter opium field. It’s not legal, which is why he covers his face, although he notes that the police are looking the other way. When Saleh took his camels […]