Egypt Holds its Breath

The situation in Egypt has reached a particularly delicate stage after a roller-coaster ride of political turmoil in the last few weeks. At time of writing, thousands of demonstrators have re-occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square in protest at the delay in the announcement of the results of Egypt’s presidential election and recent moves by Egypt’s military council to beef-up its powers. Both candidates in the election, Ahmed Shafik, widely perceived as a proxy of the military, and the Musli...

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Protests Threaten Egypt Elections

Standing outside the courtroom where Hosni Mubarak was awaiting his trial verdict on Saturday, Mediha Abdel-Aziz was one of about 40 people who had travelled to the desert fringes of eastern Cairo to support their former leader. Penned into a small enclosure outside a giant police academy – the location of the makeshift courthouse where Mubarak was awaiting his fate – she was separated from a group of around 300 anti-government protesters by hundreds of officers from Egypt’s central sec...

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