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28 Jan 2011
Thousands of protesters storm Misr Helwan road, heading to Downtown. They chanted, "people want the regime to fall." Residents of the Maadi neighborhood rushed to the street to collect their cars. But protesters on the road told...
28 Jan 2011
Police put prominent opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei under house arrest, a security source told AP. The departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime is "imminent," ElBaradei said earlier, minutes after a crowd...
28 Jan 2011
20,000 protesters battle police on Qasr al-Nil Bridge on Friday.
28 Jan 2011
At least 20,000 protesters take over Qasr al-Nil Bridge, connecting Giza to Tahrir Square in downtown Cario. Police fired hundreds of tear gas canisters which protesters picked up and threw them back at police and into the Nile. Crowds...
28 Jan 2011
Police reportedly refused orders to throw tear gas at protesters in Alexandria.
28 Jan 2011
Hundreds of protesters march from October Bridge and Qasr al-Nil Bridge to break through security cordons blocking entry to Tahrir Square. Police fired tear gas to disperse them as they came off the bridge. Earlier, thousands of...
28 Jan 2011
Fourty thousand protesters in the Nile Delta governorate of Beheira demonstrated on the fouth day of anger. Eyewitnesses said 20,000 people are protesting in the Sa'a Square in Damanhour, the capital city of Beheira. Police fired tear...
28 Jan 2011
Central security surrounded people in prayer in Giza square and has closed Qasr al-Aini Street leading into Tahrir Square. Hundreds of soldiers also surrounded the worshippers in the area of al-Istiqama Mosque in Giza Square and security...
28 Jan 2011
Police threw tear gas at protesters as they left al-Fatah Mosque, in downtown Cairo. There were thousands of protesters according to eyewitnesses. They chanted: "People want to regime to fall." Security failed to stop protesters...
28 Jan 2011
Thousands of protesters reportedly marched in East Cairo towards the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis.
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hi tgia - some other good sites in addition to this one are bikya masr, and the arabist.
ReplyDeletethis one is great too - in fact, i got to know ashraf khalil when he worked at the la times.
ReplyDeleteI just hope that these uprisings aren't co-opted by the bourgeouisie, I mean for it to be a true revolution, shouldn't it include, in fact be led by or along with, the poor and working class people? Also, I hope that North Africa doesn't forget the rest of Africa and the dire circumstances that all the people in sub-Saharan Africa are in, being subject to western-backed proxy wars that devastate their land and culture and kill literally millions. Bring everyone along!! We -- the U.S. -- will be dead last :( .
ReplyDeleteHi Yasmin. I'm familiar with the Arabist(in the blogroll) but not Bikya Masr. I'll check it out. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThat was me (Guest). It's exhilarating to watch what is going on in Tunisia and Egypt, and maybe in other areas to come -- Yemen, who knows where else. I also feel the... hypocrisy, I guess, of being an American sitting here in my (relatively) comfortable home, basically being an armchair general. Americans need to demand the same of our own government - justice, honesty, recognition of all people's human and democratic rights. If we could succeed at that it might make things easier for people all over the world.
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