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Alaa Abd el-Fattah, the jailed Egyptian-British dissident on hunger strike
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAlaa Abd el-Fattah, an Egyptian-British software developer and blogger from an activist family who...
Factbox-National political dialogue in Egypt follows years of crackdowns
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEgypt plans to launch a national political dialogue in the coming weeks, a test of whether...
Egypt hands out life jail terms in trial over 2019 protests
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn Egyptian court on Sunday handed down life prison sentences to 38 people, including a self-exiled businessman whose social media posts helped to spark anti-government protests. Public protests ...
Egypt to vote for president in December, Sisi expected to win
Reuters via Yahoo News· 9 months agoEgypt will hold a presidential vote on Dec. 10-12, the elections authority said on Monday, with...
Prominent Egyptian political activist and acclaimed academic dies at 85
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSaad Eddin Ibrahim, a prominent Egyptian-American academic and pro-democracy activist during the reign of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, died on Friday. Ibrahim's death was announced ...
Who is Muslim Brotherhood's Badie, once one of Egypt's most powerful men?
Reuters via AOL· 2 months agoMohamed Badie, the top leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood organisation, was once seen as the Khamenei of Egypt and one of the masterminds responsible for the ascend of the organisation ...
2011 Africa and Middle East Unrest Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 months agoRead CNN’s 2011 Africa and Middle East Unrest Fast Facts and learn more about the Arab Spring anti-government protests that began in Tunisia in 2010.
Family says Egyptian political activist on Day 80 of prison hunger strike
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAlaa Abd El Fattah's prison sentence for "spreading false news" can't even be appealed, but his...
Family: Egypt activist very, very thin after hunger strike
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said they were allowed to see him for...
Imprisoned Egyptian activist calls off hunger strike
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said Tuesday they received a letter from him saying he has ended his hunger strike. In a...
