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This article talks about the details of the women's rights movement since 1952. After the revolution in 2011, women's rights has yet to become a topic of importance. 

The article is about how Cairo University to ban both students and staff from wearing the niqab, and hot shorts (wearing little clothing). Later though, the ban on niqabs was overturned by a Cairo court

After the deposition of President Mubarak, a democratic election was held, placing Mohamed Morsi in power. Shortly after, the Egyptian people demanded the new president's deposition. Now, under the rule of General Sisi, the government has responded to any protesters with violence.

1. "Inshallah" 2. That a "3 pm meeting" actually means waiting from 3 til 6 for the person to show up. Eventually, you just gotta learn to enjoy.

CAIRO-The Egyptian opposition's takeover of the area around the parliament this week began with a trick-the latest example of how, for more than two weeks, young activists have outwitted Egypt's feared security forces to spur an uprising many here had long thought impossible.

On the prism of democracy, Kenya and Egypt are light-years apart, but cyber-activists and sections of Kenya's political class are drawing false parallels between the two and nudging for protests in Kenya.Kenya's cyber-space reveals fragments of the country's activists and political class are pondering using social media to emulate the Egyptian-style protest perhaps to coincide with the third anniversary of the 2008 post-election mayhem.

If three decades of violent repression and despotic rule were kindling for the Egyptian revolution, social media was both a spark and an accelerant for the movement. Did social media like Facebook and Twitter cause the revolution? No. But these tools did speed up the process by helping to organize the revolutionaries, transmit their message...

In June 2010, Khaled Said, a young Egyptian citizen of Alexandria, was beaten to death by plain-clothes police officers outside a local internet cafe. At the time, the Ministry of Interior said he died of asphyxiation caused by swallowing a bag of narcotics, but a picture of Said's battered face began circulating online.

EgyptAir Flight MS181 was taken over by a passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide explosive belt. A hijacking that diverted a domestic Egyptian flight to Cyprus has ended with all hostages released and the hijacker surrendering.

Last week, privately owned newspaper Al-Watan reported that the " Revolutionary Punishment " movement posted a warning on its website urging Egyptian judges to forgo their involvement in cases against Brotherhood members or leaders to save themselves and their families. The bill would give judges, for the first time, "the power to deliver deterring sentences for internet crimes such as cyberterrorism.

This article describes stories around the world about street harassment. There are groups out there trying to help stop street harassment. One of these groups is called Stop Street Harassment

The 'Arab Spring' of 2011 brought down autocratic governments across North Africa and the Middle East. But, despite widespread street protests that initially threatened to spark a Tunisian or Egyptian style revolt, an expected uprising in Algeria failed to materialise.