When I arrived in Cairo three months ago my first stop was not the Pyramids. Not the Egyptian Museum. Not even the beating heart of the revolution- Tahrir Square.
(Be warned your first trip to Tahrir will be disappointing- never has a more chaotic, confusing, and somewhat ugly collection of streets, buildings, and [...]

“You are Irish, I like George Bernard Shaw”
“Shaw. Wow…I don’t know much about him”
The disappointment on the face of the Egyptian man sitting beside me would have made the Sphinx cry.
It was just the truth. Shaw is one of the Irish writers I know least about. I saw ‘Saint Joan’ in the Abbey Theatre (I [...]

The Irish Times is often referred to as the quality newspaper in Ireland. It enjoys a wide readership with a reported circulation of over 120,000 for the period between July and December 2010. Even the use of the word “Times” in the title would seem to suggest a shared lineage with the Times of London. [...]

David published this on Arab Spring in My Step last night.
Just back from reporting from Tahrir.
It was dark, heaving with people, tear gas swirling in the air, the sound of street battles on the side streets - sometimes very tense, sometimes bursting with excitement.
This is not the forum for a long detailed look at [...]

David Lynch spent Sunday on the streets around a Tahrir Square in revolt. He will be writing about the events in Cairo in the Sunday Business Post on Sunday and we’ll be putting his posts from Arab Spring in My Step up here as he posts them during the week.
Tahrir this morning: Protestors under tear [...]

Book Review: ‘On the State of Egypt- The Issues that Caused the Revolution‘, Alaa Al Aswany (AUB Press 2011)

David Lynch is currently based in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring. He is blogging at Arab Spring in My Step.
Massive social phenomena are not easily predicted.
The CIA for instance, was pumped full of [...]

This blog post was originally published today in David’s blog An Arab Spring in My Step, which he has set up while in Cairo reporting on post-Mubarak Egypt and the Arab Spring.
Eid al-Adha in Cairo, is a time for family, communal praying, and in 2011- some serious electioneering.
The streets of Cairo run with blood on [...]

Grupo Raices and Justice for Colombia will be hosting a film screening on Thursday July 28th in Liberty Hall at 6pm.
We will be showing the documentary “El Baile Rojo” (The Red Dance). The film is about the experience of the Patriotic Union, a left-wing political party which tried to challenge the dominant oligarchy in Colombia [...]

Gideon Levy is a veteran journalist and columnist with the liberal Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Along with Amira Hass, he is one of the few Israeli journalists - one of the few Western journalists - to take a long term interest in the Gaza Strip. His book The Punishment of Gaza is a valuable collection [...]