police brutality, Mona Baker

Unauthorized memory

January 25, 2015 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt, Human Rights, Police Brutality

Sunday, January 25, 2015 Yasmin El-Rifae Yesterday they shot and killed a woman on Talaat Harb Street. She was walking, along with other members of the Socialist Alliance Party, through downtown to commemorate those killed since all of this started four years ago. Many of them were carrying flowers, wreaths to lay in Tahrir. Photos of Shaimaa Sabbagh in

On August 14, a belated obituary for Bassem Mohsen

August 15, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Philip Rizk, Police Brutality, Translating Dissent

Philip Rizk Thursday, August 14, 2014 – 18:33 I met Bassem Mohsen for a few moments in July 2013. He was upbeat and hopeful that the army had taken hold of power from the Muslim Brotherhood. I remember being surprised by his quick optimism. He believed that these generals were different than those who had ruled during the period