Shahira Amin

Shahira Amin is an award-winning freelance journalist and former Deputy Head of Nile TV. She quit her job at the height of last year's uprising in Tahrir Square in protest at State TV's biased coverage of the revolution. Amin is also a longtime contributor to CNN International.
31 Articles

Keeping the peace

Should Islamist rule in Egypt be cause for growing Israeli concern or…

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Egypt at a crossroads

Seventeen months after the revolution, Egypt is vastly different from the country…

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Ending the Legacy of Hatred

Egyptians reacted with shock and grief to the news of an armed…

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Hopes fade for an inclusive government

Many Egyptians now doubt the new cabinet will match expectations for a…

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Your ID, Your rights

Thousands of marginilised women in Qalyoubia are now the proud owners of…

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Omar Suleiman: Man of mystery and controversy

To most Egyptians, Suleiman will remain a man of both mystery and…

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Women at the frontiers

For those who launch attacks on journalists to stop the free flow…

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Tolerance and diversity

Only by reversing policies and norms that encourage divisions within the society…

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Egypt’s women after the uprising

The uprisings transformed the image of women from voiceless and submissive to…

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Cautious optimism as first Egyptian civil president is sworn in

Morsi may or may not be the president we had wished for…

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