In the early afternoon on Wednesday, as deadly clashes in Egypt drew into their seventh hour, I found myself sitting with three of my colleagues in an apartment overlooking the southern entrance to ...

In excerpts from 'Contested Legitimacies: Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt,' author Janis Julien Grimm explains how the massacre paved the way for the return of authoritarianism ...

It's 7:30pm and in Egypt's hopelessly gridlocked capital, the cacophonous symphony of honks and beeps ring out from the overcrowded streets. The sounds drown out the roars of children playing football ...

Astute observers of recent pro-Morsi protests in Egypt will note a new symbol cropping up in photos of the protesting crowds: Demonstrators are now holding four fingers in the air. Many carry yellow ...

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Hundreds of people were killed in the space of a few hours at Rabaa Ten years ago, hundreds of people, mostly civilians, were killed when Egyptian forces violently dispersed a sit-in protest by ...

Editor’s Note: Reza Sayah is CNN’s Cairo-based international correspondent responsible for covering Egypt and the Middle East. In his time on assignment in Cairo, he has covered a variety of issues ...

An Egyptian court on Sunday adjourned the trial of 51 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, including Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie, on charges of plotting to sow ...

Monday marked the 10th anniversary of the Rabaa massacre, when Egyptian forces opened fire on a sit-in where tens of thousands of people had camped out in Cairo to protest the ouster of Egypt’s first ...

Between the war in Gaza, the ISIS advance on Iraq, Libya’s disintegration, and the monumental brutality of the Syrian conflict—the last week of July was the deadliest of the civil war—the world barely ...

Leading Egyptian football club Al-Ahly on Monday evening suspended a striker who flashed the now-famous "Rabaa salute" after scoring a goal in a pivotal African championship match on Sunday. After ...