After being released from detention in 2011, Egyptian engineer and activist Wael Ghonim told the media:If you want to liberate a society, all you need is the internet.He'd been taken into custody for ...

TikTok has given ordinary users in Egypt unprecedented visibility, in some cases allowing them to challenge social norms, often through humour. This appears to have unsettled authorities, who appear ...

Throughout history, throwing a shoe has served as more than a physical act—it is a powerful symbol of contempt.

By fomenting chaos in Egypt and using Islamists fleeing Israel’s war in Gaza as a means to overthrow the ruling junta there, ...

The BBC's live online coverage of events in Egypt is closing down now, but you can still follow events as they happen on the BBC News website. 2146 ashrafkhalil tweets: guessing that the only real ...

That concludes our live coverage of Egypt's ninth day of anti-government protests, but you can keep up to date with regular news updates throughout the night. Thank you for following developments on ...

The Great Betrayal in the title of Lebanese-born American professor of international relations Fawaz A Gerges’s new book refers to the continued failure of western and Arab elites to grant the people ...

Mouna is represented as the pious Egyptian mother, the Sadat’s model citizen who can’t stand political Islam and is not suddenly politicised by the events of the January Revolution of 2011 that ...

Abd el-Fattah began a hunger strike after his mother was hospitalised during her own strike to demand his release ...

Since he announced his resignation as Egypt’s president on February 11, speculation has been rife over how Hosni Mubarak spent his last hours as president of Egypt. It was only when the semi ...

Tourism to Egypt has not been what it once was — with 2010 marking 14 million visitors, but the 2011 revolution against Hosni Mubarak plummeting chances of those figures in the years since then. Now, ...