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Eighteen-year-old Egyptian student and photographer Yasser Alaa has been documenting his country's recent revolution from behind the lens of a camera, most recently attending protests that sprang up after the country's longtime dictator, Hosni Mubarak, stepped down.
... stretch of days, the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was in Egypt. Is the political map of the Eastern Mediterranean now being redrawn? Is Egypt moving toward Turkey and away from Israel? MARGARET WARNER: I am not sure I would equate Israel and Turkey in terms of Egypt's ...
... JEFFREY BROWN: Next, Margaret Warner continues her reporting from post-revolutionary Egypt. Tonight -- tonight, she talks with political activists trying to find their way in an uncertain future. MARGARET WARNER: The road from Tahrir Square to a new Egypt winds through modest neighborhoods like Imbaba in Cairo. And last ...
As a new Egyptian government takes shape and a constitution is drafted and adopted, we asked several Egyptians in Cairo what role religion should play. Shaimaa Khalil Age 25, Unemployed graduate of Ain Shams University From: Helwan, Cairo "While this is a Muslim country, I want the role of religion ...
... or a private charity, but by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest and most well-established Islamic movement. The Brotherhood operates 21 such hospitals throughout Egypt, providing modern medical care at subsidized prices. Local resident Mohamed Ramadan is hugely grateful to his neighborhood's benefactor. MOHAMED RAMADAN, Egypt (through translator ...
... to have real dialogue in post-revolutionary Egypt. I feel that the current regime is trying to position themselves as the only good option in Egypt. They are using the media in telling Egyptians that it is either their regime or an Islamist regime. This is simply not true, we ...
Egyptian protesters burn an Israeli flag outside of the embassy in Cairo in August. Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images. Anger at interim military leaders and Israel is starting to boil over in Egypt, where many are frustrated about the pace of governmental change following the February ouster of ...
... most -- all of these innocent people who have died. MARGARET WARNER: They voiced resentment that 9/11 had tarred all Muslims as terrorists. ISLAM DARDEERY, Egypt: We have to justify, OK, we are not terrorists, we are Muslims. SARA MAHMOUD, Egypt: We love these and we do not want to ...
Streets of Cairo. Photo by Jana Mills via Flickr Creative Commons. CAIRO, EGYPT -- What a difference seven months make. The Cairo I left on Feb. 12 -- the morning after Egypt's longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak abandoned the presidency -- was like a college town the morning after a Grateful Dead concert ...
As former President Hosni Mubarak stands trial, Egypt's revolutionaries are increasingly divided over how to shape their new political structure. Margaret Warner discusses what's next for Egyptians and their "second wave" of revolution with GlobalPost's Charles Sennott, who returned to Tahrir Square last month.
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