Dispatches from Cairo #5: Bloody Sunday

The fifth installment of my Dispatches from Cairo series is now posted on The Daily Organ.

Sprinting away from a military charge on Sunday night I had a sinking “here we go again” feeling. The sense of déjà vu only intensified as I spent the evening following the tags #tahrir and #maspero on twitter, and learned of the 24 confirmed deaths, the 200 wounded, and that the curfew had been reinstated, if only temporarily.

Sexual Harassment IS a Big Deal

This article is also posted on MidEastPosts.

If Egypt is to become a more pleasant place to live it needs to do more than stamp out corruption and implement democracy. The political “clean-up” of Egypt needs to go hand in hand with a societal “clean-up” of community values, and an examination of what can be done to make the city nicer for everybody.

Dispatches from Cairo #4: Islamist Protests and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman

This is the fourth installment of my Dispatches From Cairo series in The Daily Organ. 

The protests that continue to flare up around the capital are not solely the handiwork of left-leaning secularists. Protesting has become the weapon of choice for any group with something to say, and after 30 years of not being able to say anything, people have a lot of bottled up anger to express.