NOLA.com

Military coup in Egypt underway: Photos from Tahrir Square on social media

Anti-government protesters demonstrate after traditional Muslim Friday prayers at the continuing demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (Tara Todras-Whitehill, ...
Southeast Missourian

Divisions in Tahrir Square as Egypt marks anniversary of uprising

CAIRO -- Several hundred thousand people teemed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of Egypt's 2011 uprising, with liberals and Islamists in a competition over the ...
MinnPost

Egyptian Army empties Tahrir Square

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. The first holy month of Ramadan after Egypt’s uprising began today not with ...
Time

Tahrir Square Memorial Angers Egyptian Activists, Who Say It Will Be Destroyed

An official Egyptian memorial to slain protesters unveiled Monday at the heart of Cairo’s Tahrir Square has angered activists who say the current military-backed regime is cynically trying to co-opt ...
The Washington Post

At Tahrir Square, Egyptian army feints and jabs

CAIRO - An awkward, uncertain coexistence between protesters and the Egyptian military is playing out in Tahrir Square, where early hopes that soldiers were sympathetic to the demonstrators and might ...
Religion Dispatches

Egyptians Queue Up to Say: On February 4, 2011, I was in Tahrir Square

We were all waiting for, frankly, a huge confrontation. It never happened. The pro-Mubarak demonstrators showed up, caused a bit of a ruckus, and then dispersed—and a fair bit away from Liberation ...
Cfr.org

In New Book, CFR’s Steven Cook Writes Egypt’s 2011 Revolt Was “If Not Predictable, Inevitable”

CFR senior fellow Steven Cook traces the “stirrings of Egyptian nationalism” back to the 1880s and culminates with the events in Tahrir Square in early 2011. He chronicles the end of the British ...
Time

Egypt’s Revolutionaries Return to Tahrir Square, but Their Protests Are Flailing

Exasperated by their failure to shape events in their country since last year’s ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, thousands of Egyptian revolutionaries were back in Tahrir Square on Tuesday. The ...
Reuters

Egypt police fire teargas to clear Tahrir Square

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police fired teargas to drive protesters out of Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, breaking up a demonstration commemorating 42 protesters killed two years ago while opposing ...
The Atlantic

Egyptian Court Condemns Tahrir Square Sexual Assaults With Seven Life Sentences

An Egyptian judge has sentenced seven men to life in prison for sexually assaulting women during public rallies in Cairo's Tahrir Square. The sentences – the first of their kind – were for four ...
Hyperallergic

Egypt's Representative to Venice Biennale Was Killed in Tahrir Square

Basiony's “30 Days of Running the Place” (image via universes-in-universes.org) Artist Ahmed Basiony was to represent Egypt in the 2011 Venice Biennale in an exhibition at the country’s national ...