It received worldwide media attention and drew women in droves to the streets: Footage of a veiled Egyptian woman being dragged by her black abaya across Tahrir by soldiers, one of whom kicked and stomped on her limp body. Her face remained covered, but her blue bra and...

I first came across protestors dubbed "Black Bloc" in San Francisco during an anti-war protest in 2003. It was rush hour and I was standing in a downtown intersection that about 30 young people in black had blocked, yelling, "Who's streets? Our streets!" News reports focused on arrests, broken windows,...

A "xenophobic" ad campaign in Egypt caught my eye during this past week of presidential election drama, but was quickly overshadowed by news of the military regime's power grab. Last night, however, I was transfixed as I read a British journalist named Natasha Smith's account of being sexually...

Now that Egypt's ongoing revolution has delivered the country its first Islamic president, there's a common Iran-related theme I've been noticing among the Egyptians I speak to online and follow daily -- "Egypt will not be Iran."

Gigi Ibrahim, a young activist who is among Egypt's Twitterati, summarized the threads...