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1 | 2009-12-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-egypts-football-fundamentalists | In light of the ongoing Egypt-Algeria football controversy, local sports commentators and news outlets have spoken of the need for diehard football fans to support the Egyptian national team and to protect Egyptian spectators. Such calls have grown increasingly strident since the violent acts of hooliganism - variously... |
2 | 2009-12-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/when-all-else-fails | Science is an engine of progress. Perhaps more importantly critical thinking, skepticism and a culture of research and contemplation are the engines of civilization. And so when Hazem Zohny in Science and faith among Egyptians: Compatible? googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3');... |
3 | 2010-12-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/19-zamalek-fans-handed-one-year-prison | The Qasr al-Nil Misdemeanor Court on Saturday sentenced 19 Zamalek football club fans to a year in prison, and referred 12 others to a juvenile court. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); 31 Zamalek "Ultras" were questioned on charges of rioting at the Ahly club, causing ... |
4 | 2011-04-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/post-revolutionary-ultras-still-full-fight | The difference between ultras and casual soccer fans is simple but crucial. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "What separates ultras from normal fans is how radical they are," explains Mohamed Gamal, sportswriter, author of the upcoming "Ultras Handbook" and in 2007 fo... |
5 | 2011-05-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-activists-plan-15-may-march-gaza | In the wake of youth-led uprisings across the Arab world, several international activist groups are calling for a "march of millions" into Gaza. The march is scheduled for 15 May, the 63rd anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel - commonly referred to in Arabic as googletag.cmd.push(function() { googlet... |
6 | 2011-07-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/trouble-zamalek-match-fans-riot-set-seats-fire | Ten Central Security recruits and officers were injured in clashes with football fans on Thursday evening during a match between Zamalek and Wadi Degla at Cairo Stadium that ended in a tie. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); According to Major General Salah al-Sherbiny,... |
7 | 2011-08-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/elbaradei-ultras-spread-message-graffiti-campaign-alexandria | A group of Mohamed ElBaradei supporters calling themselves "ultras" have started a campaign in Alexandria supporting him for the presidency and making use of graffiti slogans in poor neighborhoods. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The ultras have sprayed the slogan "T... |
8 | 2011-08-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/elbaradeis-supporters-use-street-art-highlight-presidential-bid | Supporters of presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei in Alexandria have decided to use graffiti to support his candidacy. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The group calls itself Baradaawy Ultras, an apparent reference to radical football fans, and is touring streets a... |
9 | 2011-08-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/dos-and-donts-pregnancy | "Don't dye your hair, don't wear tight clothes, don't drive, don't leave the house..." are common pieces of advice that pregnant women might hear during their pregnancy. "They are unfounded, and there are even studies proving that these kinds of fears are not rationale," explains the Cairo-based gynecologist, Hussein G... |
10 | 2011-09-07 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/mubarak-trial-updates-tantawi-summoned-testify-court-reconvene-thursday | 6:06 pm: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The 8th and 9th witnesses will testify Thursday. 5:48 pm: The court acquits the fifth witness, Central Security Forces Captain Mohamed Abdel Hakeem Mohamed, of perjury charges. 5:40 pm: The court has decided to summon Field Ma... |
11 | 2011-09-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/mubarak-trial-updates-adly-implicated-mubaraks-fate-be-determined-sunday | Wrap-up of Thursday's session: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); On Thursday, the fifth session of Mubarak's trial saw witnesses accuse the former minister of interior of ordering the shooting of protesters. Police Commander Essam Shawky, the eighth witness, told Judge... |
12 | 2011-09-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thursday-papers-anxiety-over-mubaraks-trial-farmers-reject-scaf-celebration | News about the ongoing trial of toppled President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, and six of his aides continues to dominate the front pages of most newspapers, with the top story being Judge Ahmed Refaat's decision to summon Egypt's current leaders to testify. googletag.cmd.push(functi... |
13 | 2011-09-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/anti-military-rally-tahrir-swells-tens-thousands-more-march-around-cairo | Around 30,000 protesters gathered in Tahrir Square Friday to protest the ruling military council's performance and their numbers continued to rise into the late afternoon for the demonstration dubbed "Correcting the Path of the Revolution." googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3')... |
14 | 2011-09-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/hundreds-football-fans-gather-interior-ministry-chant-against-adly | Hundreds of Ahly and Zamalek football fans marched from Tahrir Square to the Interior Minsitry headquarters during a larger protest Friday to call for police reforms and an end to human rights violations. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Police officers closed the min... |
15 | 2011-09-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ahly-fans-referred-trial-following-riots | Egypt's Public Prosecutor decided on Saturday to refer nine Ahly Football Club fans for speedy trials on 14 September, and to refer seven others to the Specialized Child Prosecution due to their youth. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Judicial sources told Al-Masry Al... |
16 | 2011-09-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/rights-council-accuses-police-collective-punishment-against-ahly-football-fans | The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) is to issue a report by its fact-finding committee tasked with investigating the clashes that took place between the police and Ahly Club football fans, who call themselves "the ultras", at a match played last week. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-... |
17 | 2011-09-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/riots-and-politics-mutual-salvation | The scenes of violence and street fighting between the police and the Ahli Football Club fan group Ultras Ahlawy outside Cairo Stadium undoubtedly brings into focus the power of riots as a vital tool to continue the revolution and maintain the absence of stability, which is a key inspiration of the revolution. googleta... |
18 | 2011-09-15 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thursdays-papers-state-paper-runs-special-report-central-security | Details of the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and others on charges related to killing revolution protesters fill some of today's papers, despite the military council-imposed publishing ban. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3');... |
19 | 2011-10-06 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/hundreds-march-tahrir-square-demand-handover-civilian-rule | Hundreds of protesters, including Ahly Club Ultras, staged a march from Sayyeda Aisha Square to Tahrir Square on Wednesday night, demanding a swift handover to civilian rule, as called for by various political parties and movements. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Th... |
20 | 2011-11-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/uncompromising-fate-minas-death | What is so significant about the horrid death of Mina Daniel? What distinguishes him from previous martyrs Khaled Saeed or Sayed Bilal? Shouldn't this strange succession of names reveal something about the recent history of the Egyptian security apparatus and open up the possibility of reforming it to public debate? De... |
21 | 2011-12-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/live-update-scaf-says-no-attempt-end-sit-forcibly | 00:30 am: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Assistant Health Minister Adel al-Adawy says death toll has reached three, while there are some 255 wounded. 10:40 pm: In a statement, SCAF said that the violence at the cabinet sit-in was caused when protesters assaulted a t... |
22 | 2011-12-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/subtext-military-councils-video-evidence | Since October when the army forcibly dispersed a peaceful protest at Maspero, claiming the lives of 27 mostly Coptic protesters, it has become customary for the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to hold a press conference after a bloody attack on protesters with two LCD monitors on each side of the podi... |
23 | 2012-01-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypts-forensic-medicine-authority-revolution | Thursday afternoon is typically a slow time in most government offices. But these days, there aren't any slow times for Ihsan Kamil Gorgy, Egypt's chief forensic doctor. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); On a recent Thursday, both Gorgy's landline and mobile phone rung... |
24 | 2012-01-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/was-egyptian-revolution-really-non-violent | As attention turns to the anniversary of the 25 January revolution, questions arise about the nature of the Egyptian revolution and what is required for its success. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The questions are: for a revolution to succeed, can it be completely ... |
25 | 2012-01-27 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-military-sympathizer-throws-sound-bombs-demonstrators | A pro-military demonstrator targeted protesters outside of the Defense Ministry in the Abbasseya neighborhood with sound bombs while they were heading back to Tahrir Square. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Tahrir protesters failed to catch him after he ran away once ... |
26 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/activists-call-escalating-civil-disobedience-force-scaf-exit | As public outrage mounts over violence at a football match Wednesday, two prominent Egyptian activist groups are calling on citizens to engage in acts of civil disobedience to impel the ruling military council to step down. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Both the Ap... |
27 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/activists-politicians-see-more-hooliganism-football-violence | At least 71 are confirmed dead in the worst-ever fan violence following a sporting event in Egypt, after a fight apparently broke out between fans of the home football team Masry and visiting team Ahly in the coastal city of Port Said. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); });... |
28 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/cairo-morgue-families-port-said-stadium-victims-blame-authorities | The bodies of 51 of the 71 people killed at Port Said stadium on Wednesday are now inside the Zeinhom Morgue in Cairo's Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood. Outside the building, the lamentations of mothers whose sons went to cheer at a football match and never came back mix with angry cries against military rule as many hold t... |
29 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/fifa-president-football-rage-not-responsible-port-said-deaths | BRUSSELS - The president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) said Thursday that football-related rage was not the cause of the bloody events that followed an Egyptian Premier League match in Port Said on Wednesday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'... |
30 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/funerals-port-said-dead-held-across-egypt | Funerals were held on Thursday across Egypt for victims of the clashes that broke out in Port Said Stadium following a game between the Ahly and Masry teams last night. Over 70 people died and over 300 were injured in the violence. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In ... |
31 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/hundreds-cairo-protest-after-port-said-football-tragedy | Hundreds have blocked the Nile Corniche in front of the Maspero state television building to protest the violence following a football match Wednesday in Port Said, which left at least 71 football fans dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Riots broke out at the Port... |
32 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/political-forces-push-cabinets-removal | A number of political and activist groups and presidential hopefuls demanded Thursday that the People's Assembly withdraw confidence from the government of interim Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri, after violence at a football match Wednesday night left at least 71 dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.displa... |
33 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/port-said-violence-was-work-infiltrators-not-ultras-say-locals | PORT SAID - Port Said residents are adamant that the violence at Wednesday's football match here was caused by infiltrators, not hardcore local football fans. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); A handful of supporters of the Masry Football Club, which beat Cairo's leadi... |
34 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/regime-gets-back-port-said | Security officers in plain clothes are reported to have roamed Port Said chasing revolutionaries, accusing them of inciting last night's organized violence in the football stadium, which left more than 70 Ahly Club fans (Ultras) dead and thousands injured. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1... |
35 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-football-fans-target-ruling-generals | Some of the Egyptian football fans who had a front-line role in toppling former President Hosni Mubarak have a new target - the man who replaced him at Egypt's helm, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "We want your head, you traitor Tantaw... |
36 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-clashes-near-interior-ministry-after-marches-against-port-said-massacre-military-rule | Riot police fired tear gas at protesters Thursday evening as thousands of people swarmed streets surrounding the Ministry of Interior to protest what they see as police complicity in the violence in Port Said yesterday that left 74 people dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204... |
37 | 2012-02-03 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-protesters-besiege-interior-ministry | Protesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, extending a rally against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst football disaster. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In ... |
38 | 2012-02-03 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/port-said-fans-blame-security-infiltrators-match-violence | PORT SAID - Despite a biting wind the sun shone brightly on Port Said Thursday, and if not for the people out in droves in front of the governorate building and marching around the city, no one would guess that unprecedented violence had occurred here just the day before. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.displ... |
39 | 2012-02-03 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-politics-fun-confront-tyranny | Wednesday's massacre of Ahly Club fans in Port Said's football stadium was the latest in a tragic crescendo for young Egyptians who continue to clash heavily with Egypt's Central Security Forces. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); And though the clashes have been contin... |
40 | 2012-02-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/death-toll-rises-12-protests-after-port-said-football-disaster | The number of protesters killed in clashes with security forces in the wake of Wednesday's deadly football riot has risen to 12, an Egyptian health official said on Saturday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Hesham Shiha, deputy health minister, said in a press statem... |
41 | 2012-02-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/fifa-chief-slams-egypts-political-interference | FIFA president Sepp Blatter has slammed "political interference" in Egyptian football, in the wake of the death of 74 fans in riots following a midweek domestic match. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "In Egypt, football has been victim of political interference," he ... |
42 | 2012-02-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/blog-football-meets-politics-again-differently | I watched endless re-runs of the final moments of the Ahly-Masry game in Port Said in a restaurant, on a muted television. Silent images of a man triumphantly carried on someone's shoulders and hurriedly put down as hordes of men fill the pitch and pursue the Ahly players, shown again and again. The celebrations turned... |
43 | 2012-02-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/mobile-companies-ready-cooperate-port-said-probe | Egypt's three main cell phone service providers -Vodafone, Mobinil, and Etisalat - have expressed readiness to cooperate with authorities in their investigation into Wednesday's football violence, which left 74 dead and hundreds injured. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }... |
44 | 2012-02-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/revolution-youth-ahly-fans-call-dismissal-pm | Several revolutionary and protest movements on Saturday called for the dismissal of the government amid the aftermath of the massacre in Port Said last week at a football match that left 74 people dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Members of the 25 January Revolu... |
45 | 2012-02-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-heroes-villains-or-scapegoats | Even within the context of the past 13 months, the events of Wednesday's soccer match confound. Port Said's home team enjoys a rare victory, and fans celebrate by raiding the pitch and murdering scores of Ahly supporters. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Reports of de... |
46 | 2012-02-07 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/salafi-preacher-port-said-victims-are-not-martyrs | Fans killed during violence at a football match last Wednesday are not martyrs according to Islam, a Salafi preacher said Monday, according to the London-based paper Asharq Al-Awsat. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Abdel Moneim al-Shahat, a spokesperson for the ultra... |
47 | 2012-02-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/copts-differ-about-planned-campaign-civil-disobedience | Coptic organizations disagree about whether to participate in the civil disobedience campaign planned for 11 February to pressure authorities to fulfill the revolution's demands. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); On Wednesday, the Maspero Youth Union announced it would... |
48 | 2012-02-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/scaf-radicalizes-mob | The mere result of the constant clashes between protesters and the remnants of Mubarak's regime in the Ministry of Interior is radicalizing the Egyptian public. The irresponsible reaction of Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, who urged Egyptians to fight those who caused... |
49 | 2012-02-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/new-kind-documentary | Nearly a year since Hosni Mubarak's resignation, the phrase "18 Days in Egypt" has become very familiar, with some variation of it serving as the title of maybe a dozen small documentary film projects. But "18 Days in Egypt," googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); despite i... |
50 | 2012-02-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/besiege-new-parliament-demands | The People's Assembly's performance has thus far been frustrating to revolutionaries. Even those who had been calling for power to be handed to the elected Parliament are now reconsidering the proposal. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); As evident from the Brotherhood ... |
51 | 2012-02-12 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/fact-finding-panel-blames-security-port-said-massacre | A Parliament-appointed fact-finding panel has blamed Port Said stadium officials and security authorities for violence at a football match on 1 February that left at least 74 football fans dead and hundreds injured, a panel source told Al-Masry Al-Youm. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488... |
52 | 2012-02-12 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-demand-interior-ministry-purge | Hardcore supporters of the Ahly football team, the Ultras Ahlawy, on Sunday accused the police of collusion in the Port Said football violence on 1 February, which claimed the lives of at least 70 football fans. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The Ultras Ahlawy deman... |
53 | 2012-02-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/mondays-papers-fjp-calls-strike-failure-undecided-coalition-government | The parliamentary fact-finding committee's findings on the Port Said Stadium tragedy dominate today's front pages, Al-Ahram leading with the headline, "Four state bodies are behind the massacre." googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The four bodies deemed guilty, accordin... |
55 | 2012-02-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/parliament-review-facts-and-follies | Continuing to showcase an outright disregard for all things orderly and restrained, parliamentary sessions plowed through the week, with members attempting to juggle the nation's top issues, and essentially fumbling every single one of them. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'... |
56 | 2012-02-21 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/vicious-campaign-against-our-mp-says-social-democratic-party | The Social Democratic Party on Tuesday said that there is an "unjust and vicious campaign" against its member, MP Ziad Elelaimy, who was referred to the People's Assembly's Ethics Committee for investigation. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In a statement Tuesday, th... |
57 | 2012-02-22 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/students-are-back | Grief runs deep for Hassan Osama, a student and member of a group that calls itself Ultras Revolution. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "I've had four friends die, there's a fire inside [me] and all I can say is down with military rule." Osama marched with 1,500 stude... |
58 | 2012-02-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/threads-narrating-arab-spring | Many of us have spoken and thought of those we wished were present to witness - and perhaps participate in - the Arab revolutions. People we have known and loved, and people we have known from a distance. A woman stood up at the "Narrating the Arab Spring" conference simply to say she would have loved it if Edward Said... |
60 | 2012-03-01 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/sense-community-foreigners-cairo | After the incident in Mahalla as well as the ongoing NGO crisis, to say nothing of xenophobic acts being reported in day-to-day life, it's easy for Egypt's foreigners to fall into a sort of unease, as we panic about what our roles here might be in a time of great uncertainty. Like many in my community, I don't want to ... |
61 | 2012-03-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/football-offers-egyptians-qatar-taste-home | DOHA - With its three friendly matches scheduled for Cairo last week scuttled by the Interior Ministry after the Port Said disaster, the Egyptian national football team has now gone almost seven months without competing on home soil. For the squad and its legions of supporters, that's far too long. The resulting exile ... |
63 | 2012-03-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/group-condemns-egyptians-arrest-qatar-solidarity-port-said-victims | A human rights group denounced the arrest of 12 Egyptians and their detainment for more than 10 hours following a friendly football match between Egypt and Congo Friday in Qatar. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said in ... |
64 | 2012-03-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/profile-mp-abou-hameds-unlikely-attributes-bring-him-spotlight | It has become a routine in every parliamentary session to watch Islamist MPs shouting to interrupt MP Mohamed Abou Hamed while talking. For one, it brought Hamed greater attention. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In what will go down in history as a popular scene fro... |
65 | 2012-03-07 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/dozens-protest-demand-release-april-6-youth-movement-activist | Dozens of April 6 Youth Movement members and ultras football group members organized a protest Wednesday morning outside the Abdeen prosecution building in downtown Cairo to demand the release of April 6 movement member George Ramzy. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); S... |
66 | 2012-03-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-martyr-day-demonstrators-both-criticize-and-support-military | Dozens of activists demonstrated in four governorates Friday to commemorate Martyr Day, both in support of and opposition to the ruling military council. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In the Friday prayer sermon in Tahrir Square, Sheikh Gomaa Mohamed Ali rejected t... |
67 | 2012-03-12 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/fans-object-resumption-football-tournaments | Supporters of Egypt's two biggest football teams, Ahly and Zamalek, object to resuming football competitions, which have been stalled since violence in early February, the fan groups said in a statement Monday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The Egyptian Football As... |
68 | 2012-03-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-slam-acquittal-virginity-tests-defendant | A march of dozens of men, women and ultras moved on Tuesday from the Mugamma Building in Tahrir Square to Cairo's High Court of Justice to protest the acquittal of a military doctor accused of conducting "virginity tests" on female protesters. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-... |
69 | 2012-03-14 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-call-march-urge-swifter-port-said-investigation | Ultras Ahlawy, a group of hardcore football fans supporting Cairo's leading Ahly club, called for a march Thursday to push for faster investigations into the violence at a Port Said football match that left 74 people dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "We are fed ... |
70 | 2012-03-14 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/whats-left-tahrir-today | A little over a year after becoming a national symbol of unity, Tahrir Square has become a very lonely place. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Amid the complete absence of the state in the iconic square, those who chose to continue residing in it feel abandoned and is... |
71 | 2012-03-15 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-protest-demand-quick-trial-port-said-violence-perpetrators | Hundreds of Ahly football club's Ultras Ahlawy, Zamalek's White Nights and a number of supporters of their cause responded on Thursday to calls on social networking sites on Wednesday for a rally that would begin outside the Ahly Club and head to the attorney general's office. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.... |
73 | 2012-03-20 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/photos-drawing-through-walls-reconnects-downtown-streets | On 9 March, one year after military police forcefully dispersed a sit-in at Tahrir Square, arrested protesters and tried them in military courts, a group of artists and activists launched their five-day graffiti campaign "Drawing through Walls." A Facebook event was created, inviting people to join seven teams in paint... |
74 | 2012-03-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protesters-decry-parliaments-domination-constituent-assembly | Dozens of demonstrators, including several high profile figures, protested Saturday against the composition of the 100-member constituent assembly, which will write the new constitution. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Held in front of the Cairo International Confere... |
75 | 2012-03-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-protest-light-penalties-port-saids-masry-team | Ultras Ahlawy, a group of hardcore football fans, marched to Parliament Sunday for a sit-in to protest what they called light penalties imposed by the Egyptian Football Association on Port Said's Masry club. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The association decided Sat... |
76 | 2012-03-27 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/more-ahly-fans-join-parliament-protest-over-efa-penalties | Hundreds of hardcore supporters of Egypt's leading football team, Ahly, known as Ultras Ahlawy, marched from Cairo University on their way to join their comrades' sit-in outside the Parliament on Tuesday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The sit-in, which started Mond... |
77 | 2012-03-29 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/abouel-fotouh-visits-ultras-ahlawy-sit-peoples-assembly | Presidential hopeful Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh visited the Ultras Ahlawy at their sit-in outside the People's Assembly Thursday morning, stressing their right to protest and encouraging them to keep the demonstration peaceful. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The dev... |
78 | 2012-03-29 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/parliament-sit-ultras-will-never-stop-singing-demands | Fire leaps out of the vat of fry oil Hatem uses to make falafel at his small restaurant. Usually, this is an accident and an occupational hazard that occurs when water makes contact with the hot oil. But this time, it's intentional. Hatem is contributing to the pyrotechnics of the Ahly ultras who have been setting off ... |
79 | 2012-04-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ahly-fans-boycott-african-league-match-resume-protests | Supporters of Egypt's leading football club Ahly have declared they would not attend their team's African Champions League game against Ethiopian Coffee Football Club next Sunday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Members of Ultras Ahlawy, the most devoted supporters o... |
80 | 2012-04-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-stage-angry-marches | The Ultras Ahlawy, supporters of the Cairo-based football team Ahly, staged marches in different governorates Wednesday, demanding retribution for those who were killed in the Port Said Stadium violence, which claimed the lives of 74 and wounded hundreds more. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-... |
82 | 2012-04-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thursdays-papers-brotherhood-struggles-hold-constituent-assembly-together | Thursday's papers reveal how the tone of the forthcoming presidential race has sharpened, with candidates throwing their hats into the ring for the first post-Hosni Mubarak election, slated to take place on 23 and 24 May. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Freedom and J... |
83 | 2012-04-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-abu-ismail-slams-reports-his-mother-held-american-citizenship | Presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu Ismail called reports that his mother is American a plot against him. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "There has been a well-orchestrated plan in play for a long time," said Abu Ismail in a statement on Facebook. "Many bodies used... |
84 | 2012-04-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/feminist-union-criticizes-preventing-girls-staying-overnight-ultras-sit | The Ultras Ahlawy sit-in's ban on women at its protest site after 10 pm is a violation of citizens' right to protest, according to a member of the Egyptian Feminist Union. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "We cannot criticize Islamists for banning women from participa... |
85 | 2012-04-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-ends-sit-temporarily-nehal-news-1-hold | Hundreds of hardcore Ahly football team fans decided Sunday to suspend their sit-in at the People's Assembly temporarily until the outcome of the Port Said football violence googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); trial comes out, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. Ultras Ahlawy sta... |
86 | 2012-04-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-zamalkawy-member-accused-cabinet-incident-case-released-nehal-news-2 | State security prosecution presided over by Wagdy Abdel Moneim, the judge of the case of the cabinet clashes, decided Wednesday to release Mahmoud Omran, a member of the Zamalek Club's White Knights. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Omran, who is known as "Shika," was... |
87 | 2012-04-15 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/masry-club-fans-protest-against-moving-port-said-massacre-trial-cairo-nehal-news-2 | Some 100 members of the Masry Club ultras, known as the "Green Eagles," chained the gates of the investment zone in Port Said at 1 am on Sunday to protest moving the trial of suspects implicated in the February football violence there to the Police Academy in Cairo, demanding the trial be held in Ismailia. googletag.cm... |
88 | 2012-04-17 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/court-holds-first-trial-session-football-violence-suspectsnews1 | The trial of 75 defendants implicated in the deaths of 74 football fans in Port Said began Tuesday in Cairo's Police Academy, in the same courtroom as the trial for former President Hosni Mubarak. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Judge Emil Habashy, head of the Port S... |
89 | 2012-04-28 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/dozens-masry-ultras-protest-against-injustices-following-port-said-violence | Roughly 200 Masry team Ultras demonstrated in front of general authority of Port Said governorate Friday, during a meeting between Governor Ahmed Abdullah and members of Parliament and the Shura Council to discuss toughening punishments for the Masry Ultra club. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gp... |
90 | 2012-05-01 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/profile-junior-malek-brings-street-politics-high-school | "We are the future of this country," says Ahmed Malek, also known as Junior Malek, about people his age who are still in high school. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Malek is a prominent 17-year-old activist who was a leader in mobilizing the high school protests and... |
91 | 2012-05-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/abbasseya-fallout-leaves-scaf-top-revolution-floundering | Hours after a bloody fight between military forces and protesters when the latter violently dispersed the weeklong sit-in next to the Defense Ministry last Friday, military police officers celebrated their victory by dancing to patriotic songs along with some civilians in the street. googletag.cmd.push(function() { goo... |
92 | 2012-05-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-ahlawy-gather-police-academy-ahead-port-said-trial-nehal-news-1 | Dozens of Al-Ahly football club fans known as ultras gathered in front of the Police Academy Wednesday for the trial of 75 suspects accused of attacking and killing googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); dozens following a February match in Port Said. The criminal court sch... |
93 | 2012-05-12 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/mosry-rally-cairo-university-attracts-thousands | A crowd of thousands gathered at a youth-focused campaign rally for Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy Saturday evening at Cairo University. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Supporters marched in nearby streets, disrupting traffic in the area and ... |
94 | 2012-05-18 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/unconventional-campaigners-help-moussas-broad-appeal-0 | Fares Teama stands out slightly on the Amr Moussa campaign bus. Unlike the rest of the campaign team, decked out in business suits and khakis, Hajj Fares, as he is known on the campaign trail, wears a blue galabeya and a mustache as he rides along with the presidential candidate from campaign stop to campaign stop. goo... |
95 | 2012-05-26 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/shafiq-vows-revive-revolution-bring-stability | In an address to journalists on Saturday afternoon, former prime minister and presidential election front-runner Ahmed Shafiq said the revolution has been stolen from the youth and that he will make sure to return it to them. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); It was a ... |
96 | 2012-06-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/several-political-powers-protest-mubarak-trial-verdict-lina | Marches are being staged nationwide in protest of the verdict handed out by a Cairo court today in the case against former President Hosni Mubarak and ten other defendants accused of killing protesters and squandering funds. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Mubarak re... |
98 | 2012-06-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/april-6-youth-movement-agrees-revolutionary-figures-continue-demonstrations | The April 6 Youth Movement googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); met Monday with certain former presidential candidates and revolutionary figures and agreed to continue with mass demonstrations on Tuesday in order to complete the demands of the revolution. In a statement m... |
99 | 2012-06-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/protests-demanding-mubarak-retrial-and-shafiq-removal-continue | Hundreds of Egyptians continued to protest Monday in Cairo and other governorates against the verdict googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); issued against ousted President Hosni Mubarak and his former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly. Demonstrators also demanded that the po... |
100 | 2012-06-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/baradie-real-battle-cancelling-presidential-elections-news-1 | Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters Tuesday night that, "The real battle right now is writing Egypt's new constitution and canceling the presidential elections, because the legitimacy of one of the candidates is highly doubtful," referring to former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.di... |
101 | 2012-06-05 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/dozens-flock-tahrir-square-preparation-tuesday-protestnews1 | Thousands of Egyptians from different backgrounds and affiliations took to the iconic Tahrir Square googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); on Tuesday to call for the application of the Political Isolation Law against presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq and a retrial in the ... |
102 | 2012-06-27 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-families-port-said-victims-protest-front-police-academy | Relatives of Ahly Club supporters who were killed in the Port Said football stadium googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); last February blocked the road outside the Police Academy in Cairo on Wednesday. They were protesting the Port Said Criminal Court's decision that they... |
103 | 2012-07-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/morsy-s-debts | For 16 months, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has tried to convince us we are indebted to it for the revolution. In reality, it was the military council that was indebted to us for its newfound absolute powers. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Today, there's ... |
104 | 2012-07-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/football-association-asks-morsy-intervene-suspension-end | Egyptian Football Association spokesperson Azmi Megahed called on President Mohamed Morsy to intervene against the suspension of football activities in Egypt. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The EFA received a letter Sunday from the Interior Ministry saying that it r... |
105 | 2012-07-17 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/clashes-break-out-ultras-ahlawy-protest | Clashes erupted Tuesday evening between members of the Ultras Ahlawy googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); , a group of hardcore football fans who support Cairo's Ahly football team, and anonymous people who rejected their protest in downtown Cairo. Dozens of Ultras Ahlawy... |
106 | 2012-07-17 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-s-deafening-three-letter-yell | When comedian Ahmed Mekky uttered the Latinized acronym for the slang term "aha" in his film "H Dabbour," he broke a taboo in the film industry. But because he spelled it out in English as "a7a" - to represent the heavy "h" sound in Arabic - its incomprehensibility to the censors and anyone with little online knowledge... |
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