Egyptian activists and bloggers are gearing up for today’s showdown between the government and leading blogger Wael Abbas, who was sentenced last fall to 6 months in prison.

One of Egypt’s top bloggers and anti-torture activist, Wael Abbas, has been found not guilty by a Cairo court on Thursday. The ruling means the blogger will avoid what could

The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information called ,today, all defenders of freedom of opinion and expression in Egypt and the world to unite with the known blogger Wael Abbas,

In a show of solidarity to the Egyptian families suffering after the loss of their loved ones in the attacks on the eve of the Orthodox Coptic Christmas, a large

At least 19 Egyptian bloggers and one unnamed French activist have been arrested during an attempt to show solidarity with victims of the Naga'a Hammadi shootings on Coptic Christmas Eve,

Meanwhile leading NGOs and studies centers all over the world becoming more interested in listening to the Arab bloggers and their digital activism, the Egyptian bloggers have bad luck in

The Egyptian journalist on Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood, and why he lost respect for Barack Obama

The rise of the Egyptian blogosphere is just one of the ways in which dissidents in the US-backed dictatorship are struggling for rights on their own. Not reliant on foreign

Egyptian bloggers have received a fair mount of press attention lately for their calls for greater democracy under Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled the country for the past quarter-century and