This three-part film was made in 2011 by three different directors: Tamer Ezzat, Ayten Amin, and Amr Salama, with the participation of director Ahmad Abdallah. It attempts to document the Egyptian revolution from three different perspectives: the…
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This collection of photos taken by journalist and blogger Hossam El-Hamalawy constitutes a rich archive of images of the revolutionary period of 2011-2013, which not only includes the January 2011 protests but many others that occurred in the months…
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In an acting workshop in a working-class Cairo neighborhood, 10 men recount episodes of exploitation, humiliation and injustice; their stories centre on the privatization of a factory but invariably extend to harassment by police and Egypt’s corrupt…
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These images of people wearing eye patches were painted on the walls of the downtown American University in Cairo campus on Mohamed Mahmoud Street in tribute to those protesters who lost their eyes during protests in and around Tahrir Square in…
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2025: fourteen years after the failed revolution, Egypt is invaded by a vicious foreign militant organization called the Knights of the Republic of Malta. Former police man Ahmed Otared joins a group of fellow officers in the armed resistance and…
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This award-winning novel, originally published in Arabic in 2013, is set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, yet is clearly relevant to post-revolution Egypt and life under the regime of Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. A centralized authority known as the…
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“This is Chaos” (Hiyya Fawda, in Arabic), is an Egyptian-French 2007 co-production and the last film by internationally-acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Shahin before he passed away in 2008. It made waves in Egypt when it was shown for its open…
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This footage, probably recorded on a mobile phone, quickly went viral. It shows protesters on Qasr al-Aini Street, approaching Tahrir Square, on 25 January 2011. An armoured tank uses a water cannon to try to stop the people reaching the square. A…
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This is a short video explaining the idea behind Tahrir Monologues, a storytelling project founded on 17 February 2011. Initially, the project aimed to preserve the memory of the 18 days of Tahrir Square through encouraging people to share their…
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It was in the extraordinary and historic city of Suez that the first martyr of the Egyptian revolution fell. But the city has long been the gateway to Egypt’s most decisive, transformative moments. Home to the strategic Suez Canal, the port was a key…
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