It was on January 25, 2011, that a larger-than-ever protest took over Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Here, 5 years later, are the best Egyptian literary works about it.

La jeunesse, étincelle de la révolution égyptienne, a disparu des écrans. Je fouille dans mes archives et je retrouve des visages qui s’effacent doucement…

The Egyptian youth: the spark of the revolution, famous or anonymous, disappeared from the screens. I keep finding faces that are no more — or are slowly fading away…

The first of six fictional short stories from our inaugural fiction series. This piece is on the ashwa’iyet (unauthorized shanty dwellings) of Egypt.

Movies screened at the 17th Arab Film Festival in San Francisco, finding new pathways to narrate conditions in the Arab universe of life.

Our favourite Instagram photographers from the Middle East — discover Sudan, Saudi, Dubai, Palestine, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and elsewhere through them

Tilia Korpe explored artistic activism, or “artivism”, among the youth of Tunisia. We publish her interview with Tunisian rapper WMD

Reflections on the revolution that toppled Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and the coup that ousted the country’s first democratically elected president.

On Sunday June 2nd, the anti-capitalist Islamic group “Revolutionary Muslims” [Devrimci Müslümanlar] posted this open letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. “Revolutionary Muslims” were among the first groups to occupy Gezi Park in protest against its destruction.

Mashallah News spoke to Alex Shams about the lesser-known positive effect of the 1979 Iranian revolution on women’s education and university enrolment.