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

El Nadeem Centre provides treatment to victims of political violence and torture. Mashallah News met with psychiatrist Mona Hamed to discuss the nature of the psychological trauma engendered by political violence.

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.