The ‘Cursed Objects’ podcast meets journalist Jack Shenker, and his broken revolutionary mug

What happened when Sanaa Seif tried to shame the authorities into releasing her brother?

Ten years after the revolution, Tahrir Square is sanitised, the dictatorship in place harsher than the one it replaced. But while the revolutionary generation came from ruins, it is not ruined

A keynote lecture given for the Stuart Hall Foundation's Third Annual Public Conversation at Conway Hall, London

For the London Review of Books - Dystopian realities in Sisi's Egypt

Digital technologies are a market product and play politics by different means. It’s up to us to harness them for democracy

A hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, exploring John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook The World' on the banks of the Nile

For Granta magazine - A weird relationship with a wondrous city gets weirder still

A critically-acclaimed book exploring Egypt's revolution and counter-revolution from below - published by Allen Lane and Penguin

As XR shifts away from radical action and the UK government restricts the right to protest, the climate movement is asking tough questions

In an arena of guns and certainties, other fault lines fade to darkness. This latest wave of state violence aims at destroying the very conditions of audibility in which revolutionary voices can be heard

A megacity turns itself inside out

A selection of news, comment and analysis from Jack Shenker’s award-winning Guardian coverage of Egypt’s revolutionary uprising

One dodgy car, three irritable companions and 1000km by the Nile: Cairo to Luxor by road.

One hundred years ago, the British explorer WJ Harding King tried and failed to cross Egypt’s myth-laden Western Desert. Jack Shenker follows his footsteps into a once-isolated world on the cusp of transformation.

The Nile Delta is under threat from rising sea levels. Without the food it produces, Egypt faces catastrophe.

Prising open Egypt's cracks

Excluded from the rapid development of Sinai’s tourist coast and subject to a prolonged police crackdown, the Bedouins who have made the Peninsula their home for centuries now teeter on the brink of social implosion