This week’s Forefront story “Waking the Sleeping Tiger,” by Cairo-based journalist Joseph Dana and photographer Cliff Cheney, explores how ordinary Cairenes are redefining their relationship to the ...

Ahdaf Soueif, one of Egypt's most prominent English language novelists, tackles the January 25 Revolution in her new book about Cairo, 18 years after signing the contract with her publisher Eighteen ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Downtown Cairo couldn’t function without Tahrir Square. Streets ...

The Egyptian capital is crawling with tanks. They are stationed at street corners, in front of shopping malls, on highway flyovers, and they are festooned with posters of a soldier cradling a baby in ...

CAIRO: It was on the 15th day of the Egyptian revolution that I first encountered Ahdaf Soueif in Tahrir Square. She wore big round sunglasses that swallowed her face, and a dark scarf covered her ...

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Cairo — I won’t lie to you. I was scared yesterday. I got in a fight with a group of passersby in one of the poorest neighborhood in Cairo. The people thought I was reporting for Al-Jazeera, the ...

For the second time within 11 months the eyes of the White House and the world are focused on Cairo. Tahrir Square in the middle of this bustling and impoverished city of 20 million is full of young ...

FRONTLINE dispatches teams to Cairo, going inside the youth movement that helped light the fire on the streets. We follow the “April 6th” group, which two years ago began making a bold use of the ...