Two Egyptians died and at least 18 were hurt early on Saturday when Egyptian military police stormed Cairo's Tahrir Square to disperse protesters, medical sources told AFP. They are the first ...

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 ...

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

The New York Times’ photoblog of today’s protests in Egypt show hundreds of thousands packed into Tahrir (Liberation) Square in Cairo. Protestors showed their disdain for President Hosni Mubarak’s ...

Sisi is not reacting to public dissent and support; he is attempting to direct it. The pressure is real, and this political theater is Sisi’s answer. EGYPT’S PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ...

Few societies have perfected protest culture quite like the Egyptians. From the nationalist fervor of the 1919 revolution to the chants of “Bread, Freedom, Social justice” in Tahrir Square ...

Although Christians and Muslims joined in protests against Mubarak, shown here in Cairo's Tahrir Square this past February, violence against the Copts escalated soon after the regime fell.

Mass protests break out in Amman ... pro-peace orientation. Warning signs of a "Tahrir Square"-in-Amman scenario include bold and direct criticism of the monarchy and the state in Jordan's ...

On November 18, 2011 [nine months after Mubarak’s resignation], the army and the police very violently broke up a peaceful protest in Tahrir [Square].” The demonstrators were marching against ...

Listen to a podcast of the lecture. Ingrid Volkmer urges media scholars to rethink the “public sphere” in an age of global media. “It is time to assess the Habermasian notion of public deliberation ...

The notion that the state may have coordinated violence against protesters, who had kept a peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square for five days, prompted a sharp rebuke from the Obama administration. "If any ...

The protesters are angry at the decree that Morsi announced ... a member of the April 6 movement who died last week from injuries suffered in clashes near Tahrir Square. Around the capital streets ...