The success of the anti-government demonstrations in Kenya is inspiring others in the region to take action.
International Committee for Solidarity with Rached Ghannouchi says Ennahdha party leader is ‘prisoner of conscience’.
Civil society group says citizens trying to nominate candidates to stand against el-Sisi face harassment.
Ennahda interim head Mondher Ounissi and Abdel Karim Harouni, leader of the party’s Shura Council, have been arrested.
Advocates say that prisoners are protesting against dire conditions – and that the government’s reforms are not enough.
Chaima Issa and Lazhar Akremi released nearly 5 months after arrest for allegedly conspiring against state security.
2021 marked a decade since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, with violence and economic hardship still rife.
Egypt sentences Abdel Fattah, a leading figure in the 2011 revolution, to jail with two others for speaking ‘fake news’.
![Alaa Abdel Fattah at his home in Cairo on May 17, 2019 [File: Khaled Desouki/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/gettyimages-1147419612-594x594-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
President says anniversary to mark the beginning of the uprising, rather than the deposing of former dictator Ben Ali.
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Egypt’s former military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi has died aged 85, Egypt’s presidency said.
Taking an award-winning photo helped one Spanish photographer connect with a country rarely seen beyond the stereotypes.
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Tunisia’s largest parliamentary party faces an existential threat after President Saied assumed executive powers.
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Revisiting five months in a hospital that was at the heart of Syria’s rebellion.
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A photojournalist who covered Syria’s civil war tells the story of a young rebel fighter he met.
![Ali, a rebel fighter, gestures for victory after firing a shoulder-fired rocket towards a building where Syrian troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were hiding as they attempted to gain terrain against the rebels during heavy clashes in the Jedida district of Aleppo, Syria, on November 4, 2012 [Narciso Contreras]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HL_CONTRERAS_war_in_syria-18.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
