Dispatches From Cairo: Blood, Youth and Revolution

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig May 5, 2012 The rough mobilization and confrontation that have occurred at every juncture in Egypt's post-revolutionary evolution is happening again as the first true presidential election in the nation's long history approaches. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Sand and Political Excitement Fill the Air as Election Nears

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Apr 21, 2012 One month before Egypt's presidential vote, 100,000 or more Islamists and liberals of all parties packed Tahrir Square to join in support of Egypt's revolution. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Egyptians Rally Against Suleiman

Staff / Truthdig Apr 14, 2012 Of all the people to step in and take the still-revolutionizing nation of Egypt to another level in its post-Arab Spring era, former President Hosni Mubarak's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman probably isn't the man for the job. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Revolution One Year Later

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Jan 31, 2012 The celebration brought hundreds of thousands from all walks of life to Tahrir Square. We left with a feeling of disappointment. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Freedom of the Press Roughed Up in U.S.

Staff / Truthdig Jan 26, 2012 Thanks to the deplorable treatment of journalists during OWS, the U.S. drops in the Press Freedom Index; turns out, it's more environmentally friendly to reuse an old building than to build a new one in its place; and a peaceful Occupy L.A. protester is charged with lynching. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Egyptian Election Goes Forward Despite Setbacks

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2011 How do you take a revolution to the polls? Some Egyptians apparently found the electoral potential of Monday's vote, their country's first since President Hosni Mubarak's regime was brought down, to be wanting and boycotted the whole production, but many others were willing to deal with the lines and (more) . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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Egyptian Military Officers Defecting to Protesters

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2011 Ten months after Mubarak’s fall, Egyptians are risking imprisonment and death in Tahrir Square once again to demand an end to military rule and the election of a civilian government. Some members of the military, disgusted by the murder of their fellow citizens, are standing with them. (more)Disgusted by the murder of his fellow Egyptians, Maj. Tamer Samir Badr has joined protesters in Tahrir Square. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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Egyptian Military Leaders: Sorry, but We’re Not Going Anywhere

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2011 Though they expressed their condolences for lives lost during the latest round of protests in Cairo, members of Egypt's ruling military council refused to change their plans for either Monday's parliamentary elections or the eventual presidential vote slated for next year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Return of the Revolution

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Nov 23, 2011 In the surreal dawn of Tahrir Square the sun is purple-gray through the mist of tear gas, a building a block away is burning, the black carcass of an overturned truck smolders as a few people hover.In the surreal dawn of Tahrir Square the sun is purple-gray through the mist of tear gas. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Egypt’s Military Council Gives an Inch

Staff / Truthdig Nov 23, 2011 Responding to days of protest and turmoil, once again centered in the mother lode of the Arab Spring, Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egypt's ruling military council made an attempt to placate pressure groups by pledging to transfer power to the Egyptian people by June. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )