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The Gaurdian reports that Britian is demanding the repayment of GBP 100m lent to the Mubarak regime for arms deals. Incidentally, IMF officials are currently in Cairo trying to talk Egypt's interim government into a $3 billion loan. With these two...

The violence that erupted in Maspero yesterday signals an acutely dangerous turn in the already murky atmosphere of Egypt’s post-revolutionary transition. I say acutely dangerous because what started out as a peaceful demonstration by Christians,...

Ahmed Abdel Muiti Hijazi is one of my favorite Egyptian progressives. Hijazi is not only one of the most prominent Egyptian modern poets, he is also a staunch secularist and sharp social commentator. In an article (perhaps sarcastically) titled “This...

Image credit: @carloslatuff Picking up where I left off... As previously noted, it is surely naive to assume that all of those who blogged, tweeted and facebooked about the protests were on the street in any/all of those protests. The opposite also...

Cartoon by Patrick Chapatte One of any coercive regime’s worst fears is a rich, open public dialogue on change and reform. When people start candidly discussing and debating their concerns, hopes and dreams, they begin to be aware of their true...

Guerrilla Social Media Ops from Tahrir Square (click for picture credits) I previously wrote about  the role of social media in empowering tangible political and social action, citing social movements in Egypt and Iran that seemed to be driven,...

(Photo credits: Mostapha El Shafey) February 11, 2011. 21:06, Cairo, Egypt We did it. I have an outpouring of thoughts in my head related to what happened in Egypt over the past two weeks that I would love to get out all at once right now, if...

While we are on the topic of social media and political/developmental discourse, I just read this NYT op-ed by Rami G. Khouri. Khouri makes a case for a  valid point: the rift between U.S. policy on democratization in the Middle East when it comes to...

While I was working on my masters in International Development, I wrote a paper on how we can use social media to observe current social discourses on various themes, or what I specifically termed "grassroots developmental ethos". In non-academic jargon,...

At least that's what I have deduced after looking at the lost & found section in the Egyptian weekly classifieds paper, Al-Waseet. The first scan is from Al-Waseet's July 7th issue, the other is from its July 23rd issue (I added the red...