Monthly Archives: April 2009

The Egyptian legal system hasn’t been at its best this week. On Wednesday 19 year-old Mahmoud El-Esawy was found guilty of a double-murder and sentenced to death. The case is high-profile because one of the victims was a the daughter … Continue reading →

Confirmation that the 6 April Youth Movement’s “Day of Anger” was a day of nothing very much at all came when I found myself photographing my own face to see what a friend’s sunglasses looked like, through sheer boredom. The … Continue reading →

Here I go on about Captain Mamdouh Farag. Again.

Much is often made of the vitality of Cairo’s street life and its grimy, insistent, animation, its business of 24 hour people, cars, donkeys and drama. A never-ending presence has not however, lent Cairo’s population ownership over the capital’s streets … Continue reading →