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Egyptian revolution 2011

Egypt’s most prominent activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah during a conference held at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, on September 22, 2014. (AP/ Nariman el-Mofty)
October 18, 2021, 10:40 pm
New trial begins for leading figure of 2011 Egyptian revolution
Alaa Abdel-Fattah, his lawyer and another blogger appear in court on charges of ‘broadcasting false news,’ after being arrested in wake of rare anti-Sissi protests
By AFP
Egyptian comedian Shady Abu Zaid. (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 18, 2020, 2:13 pm
Egypt releases comedian after more than 2 years in prison
Samy Abu Zaid, who worked for satirical TV program, was arrested in 2018 and held without trial
By AP
Names of deceased relatives from Alexandria are read out inside the newly renovated Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt, February 14, 2020. (David Lisbona)
February 15, 2020, 4:00 pm
Homecoming: Alexandria synagogue hosts Egypt’s largest Jewish prayers in decades
180 members of Egyptian-Jewish Diaspora return to fete renovated Eliyahu Hanavi shul, even as country’s tiny Jewish community prepares for a Jew-free future
By F. Pieter
A Saudi woman displays her new driver's license in 2018. (Saudi Information Ministry/ via AP)
July 28, 2019, 3:20 am
Rising from ashes of Arab Spring, women lead a first Muslim feminist revolution
The often violent upheaval sweeping the Middle East in the last decade has also spurred women to cling to gains earned as they fight, and rebuild, alongside men
By Ksenia Svetlova
Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse, May 8, 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. (Tarek el-Gabbas/AP/File)
June 17, 2019, 8:24 pm
Ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dies suddenly in court
Cairo officials say Islamist leader blacked out and died moments after telling a judge he had ‘many secrets’ to reveal in his espionage trial
By AP
In this file photo from January 28, 2011, Egyptian anti-government protesters clash with riot police in Cairo, Egypt (photo credit: AP/Ben Curtis)
January 30, 2019, 1:09 pm
Egypt arrests activists after commemoration of Arab Spring uprising
Five reportedly detained for attending ceremony marking eight years since the 2011 revolution that ousted Mubarak
By AP
Egyptian judge Mohammed Shirin Fahmi (background) listens to the testimony of former president Hosni Mubarak (front), who was ousted following a popular uprisal in 2011, during a session in the retrial of members of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood on charges of plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising, at a make-shift courthouse in southern Cairo on December 26, 2018. (Mohamed el-Shahed/AFP)
December 30, 2018, 12:51 am
Hamas denies Mubarak claim it sent fighters to Egypt during 2011 uprising
Terror group decries alleged efforts to ’embroil the Palestinian movement into Egypt’s internal affairs,’ says it is committed to non-intervention in other countries’ affairs
By AFP
This file photo taken on October 6, 2016 shows Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak waving to people from his room at the Maadi military hospital in Cairo. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)
March 13, 2017, 4:52 pm
Mubarak gets nod to exit prison on Monday
Prosecutor says Egyptian ex-president may leave military hospital following acquittal over 2011 protester killings
By AFP
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)
March 2, 2017, 8:28 pm
Egypt appeals court acquits Mubarak over 2011 protester killings
Ousted president cleared of inciting deaths of some 850 demonstrators in 18-day revolt that brought down his reign
By AFP and ToI Staff
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak waves to his supporters from the balcony of his room at the Maadi military hospital in Cairo on November 29, 2014. (AFP/Al-Watan newspaper/Mohamed Nabil)
From the WebMay 17, 2016, 1:30 am
The strange, unending limbo of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak
While technically a free man, the deposed 88-year-old ex-dictator remains confined to a comfortable hospital room that doubles as a jail cell, The New York Times reports
Prominent Egyptian blogger Alaa Abdel-Fattah, left, with his sister Sanaa Abdel-Fattah, speaks to the crowd after attending their father's funeral in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
May 15, 2016, 1:13 am
Egypt sentences 51 to prison over islands protests
April rallies against transfer of Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia were the largest since el-Sissi’s 2014 election
By Hamza Hendawi
Egyptian police stand guard a day ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 25, 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt on Jan. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Roger Anis)
January 24, 2016, 10:25 pm
Egypt’s president praises 2011 uprising, urges patience
Sissi says uprising that toppled Mubarak revived ‘noble principles,’ and that 2013 protest ahead of coup ‘corrected’ hijacked protest movement
By AP
An art student from the University of Helwan paints the Facebook logo on a mural commemorating the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, March 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati, File)
January 3, 2016, 3:31 am
Egypt arrests 3 Facebook admins ahead of revolution anniversary
Interior Ministry accuses suspects of being members of Muslim Brotherhood, using net to incite against state
By AP
An art student from the University of Helwan paints the Facebook logo on a mural commemorating the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, March 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati, File)
December 30, 2015, 9:08 pm
Facebook’s free Internet service in Egypt closes down
Social media giant behind program serving three million people says it hopes to resolve situation ‘soon’
By Brian Rohan
Smoke rises in Egypt's northern Sinai, as seen from the border of the Gaza Strip, amid fierce clashes between government forces and Islamic State-affiliated gunmen on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
September 14, 2015, 3:16 am
Egypt’s ‘largest-ever’ operation in Sinai – again
Why Cairo appears to be taking the Islamist threat from the peninsula more seriously than before
By Avi Issacharoff
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