This (Arabic) study is one of the most accurate and detailed reports, I’ve come across, on the evolution of the Egyptian Interior Ministry’s Central Security Forces: UPDATE: I was honored to speak with the author of the study, in a Zoom meeting.
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January 1977: Egypt’s Bread Uprising
This is the MA dissertation I wrote in 2001, on the 1977 Egyptian intifada.
Read on »Egypt’s hidden history of dissent
The 25 January 2011 revolution is the product of a long process of dissent accumulation over decades in Egypt led by workers and students.
Read on »Something in the air
Since I returned to Cairo two days ago, the conversations I’m having with or hearing from random strangers are amazing. I had to go yesterday to do some paper work at the Nasr City registrar, and as usual the procedures included photocopying my ID and every single document. I went into one of the small
Read on »The National Theater on FIRE ! حريق بالمسرح القومي
Unbelievable! The National Theater in Downtown Cairo is on fire, as I’m writing now. Nile News is reporting the fire has broken out in the main hall shortly before iftar. There are ten fire trucks, according to the channel, present in the scene trying to control the situation and prevent the spread of fire. UPDATE:
Read on »Anti-torture revolt
El-Badeel reports that hundreds of citizens stormed el-Dhaher Poilce Station Friday night, following the death of Muhammad Ali Hassan, a 38-year-old coffee shop owner, in custody. The wife of the victim, Asmaa Muhammad, accused the Criminal Investigations officers of fabricating drug charges against her husband, torturing him to death, as a “favor” for some individuals.
Read on »1976
Kamal Khalil, recalling the 25 November 1976 Cairo University march which he led as an Engineering graduate student and a communist organizer: The Nasserists and the Communists were due to march on that day. But there were divisions in every faction.. both among the Nasserists themselves and the Communists. The Workers Communist party activists had
Read on »Rashad
Demoralized by the failure of the 1977 Bread Intifada, and faced with an escalating witch-hunt campaign and purges by Sadat’s regime against leftists in the universities and civil service, thousands of Egyptian communists and radical nationalists left the country and sought refuge in Libya, Algeria, Iraq, Kuwait (yeah, believe it or not, Kuwait received tons
Read on »From the Memory of the Class: Recalling the Jan ’77 Bread Intifada
Interesting postings by a blogger who took part in the January 1977 “Bread Uprising” could be found here, and here For more information about the uprising, you can read my previous posting.
Read on »Mahalla marks ’77 Bread Intifada
I received another photo, courtesy of Ad-Dustour, of the demonstration held in Mahalla to mark the anniversary of the 1977 Bread Uprising, and to protest the dramatic increase in prices of basic commodities.
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