Archive: egypt
17th November 2011
TUNISIA
After some delay, the definitive results in Tunisia's hung election were announced earlier this week. There are some minor changes (the Ennahda party has 89 seats out of 217 – one less than originally reported).
The Tunisia Live website has produced useful a graphic showing… Read more
11th November 2011
Several prominent human rights groups in Egypt have turned down an invitation from the authorities to take part in discussions about the constituent assembly which will draft a new constitution. They say the government and the ruling military council must first "prove their respect for the dignity… Read more
23rd October 2011
A man has been jailed in Egypt for "insulting Islam" on Facebook.
Ayman Youssef Mansur, who had been arrested in August, was sentenced to three years with hard labour by a civilian court on Saturday on charges of "exploitation of religion to promote extremist ideas with the intention of inciting… Read more
10th October 2011
The violence in Cairo that left 24 people dead and more than 200 injured on Sunday night is the most alarming development so far in post-Mubarak Egypt.
Many are blaming the security forces for the bloody turn of events, arguing that the military council (temporarily) ruling Egypt is using social… Read more
28th July 2011
The thorny issue of religion, marriage and divorce has resurfaced in Egypt. This is something the Mubarak regime promised to sort outlast year (but didn't) through a reform of the personal status law for non-Muslims.
Following Mubarak's departure the ruling military council is looking at it again,… Read more
18th May 2011
One regressive trend in Egypt since the overthrow of President Mubarak is that civilians are increasingly being tried by the military. Military courts have "almost entirely supplanted the civilian judiciary for criminal prosecution", according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR).… Read more
18th April 2011
Zahi Hawass
Indiana Jones
Zahi Hawass, Egypt's controversial antiquities minister, was sentenced to a year in jail on Sunday for failing to comply with a court order. According to some reports the case relates to a land dispute while others, including Hawass's own blog, say it involves a… Read more
15th April 2011
Fashion for the less active kind of man? Photograph: Egyptian Picture Gallery. Copyright: Historylink101.com
I thought it must be a joke when I first saw it on Twitter, but apparently not. It's the Zahi Hawass fashion collection – named after the comical Antiquities Minister who is Egypt's… Read more
12th April 2011
Maikel Nabil, the Egyptian pacifist whose case I wrote about on April 5, has been sentenced to three years in jail for "publishing false information" and "insulting the armed forces".
His trial – of a kind that became common under the Mubarak regime – was the first since the revolution and featured… Read more
2nd April 2011
Zahi Hawass
Indiana Jones
Here is Egypt's own Indiana Jones – antiquities chief Zahi Hawass – describing his role in the revolution:
We entered the Egyptian Museum – along with a group of commandos – through the museum's back door; the door through which the tourists exit past the newly-… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
