Yasmin El-Rifae @yasminelrifae

I walked through downtown Cairo on a quiet Friday morning in March 2015, late to a conference I had helped organize and a little bit anxious. The conference...

Egypt at the moment feels like a series of battles and struggles, separated by geography but all ultimately linked together, hurtling towards some unknown...

We recently visited the area of Cairo known as the “City of the Dead,” or “el-Ma’aber” (the graves) in Arabic. For decades, people have lived on the...

Nearly two months after Hosny Mubarak stepped down, the revolution that ousted him has turned into a battle ground. The January 25 Revolution, as it is called,...

The last two weeks have been incredible ones for Egypt. Massive, nationwide protests, which began on January 25, 2011, broke down fear of government...

As commentators discuss the Tunisian revolution and its power to inspire those in other Arab countries to rise against their - more often than not - autocratic...