In old Cairo, an innovative learning centre provides a free-thinking alternative to both conventional schools and elitist, inaccessible education.

The daily demonstrations and clashes between the people in the streets and the army are slowly changing Cairo’s urban geography.

On aperçoit soudain toute la rue de la Ligue arabe, noire de monde. On est stupéfaits. Les militants viennent voir Pauline. « On a réussi ! »

Happy, white-clad girls dancing and playing ball in a garden. A kitschy ad? No, just an online promo video for Egypt’s Al Nour Salafi party.

Des fillettes en blanc jouent dans un jardin, floutées par une brume féérique. La vidéo du parti salafiste a suscité l’ire de la blogosphère égyptienne.

On a dusty hill on the outskirts of Cairo, right where all the city’s garbage is recycled, sits also its biggest church – and iconic tattoo artist Girgis

Ramy Essam – his perseverance, talent & enthusiasm quickly made him a staple of Tahrir’s daily life. Many simply call him the singer of the revolution.

Arab student activism has not changed that much in Montreal, despite the Arab Spring.