Egyptian activism

Egyptian police [Getty]
Egypt
MENA
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Activists cry foul as Egypt shifts 25 Jan. holiday to Police Day

Instead of honouring the 2011 uprising on its actual date, they say, the government is quietly depoliticising or minimising the event.

Saleh Salem
20 January, 2026
Laila Soueif, Mother Of Jailed British-Egyptian Activist
Egyptian human rights
MENA
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Egypt must halt lengthy arbitrary detention of govt critics: UN

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
26 August, 2025
Mahienour El-Massry - Getty
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt charges rights lawyer El-Massry with spreading false news

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
19 August, 2025
Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been in prison in Egypt for five years
Alaa Abdel-Fattah
MENA
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Jailed activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah begins hunger strike: family

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 March, 2025
Free Alaa [Getty]
Alaa Abd el-Fattah
MENA
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UK's Starmer presses Sisi to release activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
01 March, 2025
Abdel-Rahman al-Qaradawi [Getty]
Egypt
MENA
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Lebanon: Egypt opposition activist arrested after time in Syria

The New Arab Staff
29 December, 2024
Laila Soueif [Getty]
Alaa Abdel-Fattah
MENA
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Mother of jailed Alaa Abdel-Fattah urges UK to secure release

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 November, 2024
Egypt
MENA
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Crackdown on Egypt's Faisal Street over anti-Sisi signs

The New Arab
15 July, 2024
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt releases 14 pro-Gaza activists facing terror charges

Thaer Mansour
08 April, 2024
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt detains activists after joining pro-Gaza protest

Thaer Mansour
04 April, 2024
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt activist Hossam Bahgat's 13-year legal ordeal ends

Nabila El-Gaafary
21 March, 2024
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Egyptian activism
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Egyptian podcaster Rahma Zein claps back on Piers Morgan show

The New Arab Staff
27 October, 2023
Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi
MENA
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Jailed Egyptian rights lawyer's wife 'freed' after detention

Thaer Mansour
17 April, 2023
Egypt
MENA
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Self-exiled Egyptians denied official documents: HRW

Thaer Mansour
13 March, 2023
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt hands exiled businessman life sentence over protests

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
16 January, 2023
Media of the Massess: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
Egypt
Book Club
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Media of the Masses: Cassette culture in Modern Egypt

Ramona Wadi

Ramona Wadi

21 December, 2022
Egypt
MENA
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Egyptian activist re-arrested after interview with Jazeera

Thaer Mansour
19 September, 2022
Alaa Abdel Fattah
MENA
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Alaa Abdel-Fattah given books for first time in years

The New Arab Staff
28 May, 2022
Egypt
MENA
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Three Egyptian activists end hunger strike at Tora prison

Thaer Mansour
07 April, 2022
Egyptian women take part in a march against sexual harassment at the Seiyda Zeinab Mosque, on February 6, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt [Getty Images]
Egypt
Perspectives

Egypt must end state oppression of women and girls

Reem Abdellatif and Nimco Ali

Reem Abdellatif and Nimco Ali

21 October, 2021
Maher Englishsite Egypt
Sisi
Perspectives

Maher: One year in prison, one year of injustice

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Ahmed Maher

04 December, 2014