Prominent dissident Alaa Abd El-Fattah has remained in prison despite completing his sentence last September, according to his family, which has appealed to the UK to help secure his release.

Alaa Al Aswany In a new novel, Egypt’s celebrated dissident assesses the complicated aftermath of revolution. Egyptian novelist Alaa Al Aswany, photographed at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 19.

To many people, the struggle to provide women with appropriate health care means the struggle for reproductive rights. But women’s health needs go way beyond childbearing, and Dr. Alaa Murabit ...

The family of detained British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike as world leaders meet in Egypt for the COP27 climate summit, hopes his dual British nationality ...

In Finding Alaa, Amimour takes the first legal steps to find his granddaughter, while grappling with pain, guilt, grief and shame over his son. Finding Alaa was co-commissioned by CBC and BBC.

British-Egyptian writer and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah is being illegally detained in Egypt and should be released immediately, United Nations investigators have said.

Alaa Abdel Fattah, the British-Egyptian writer and activist, should have been released on September 29 after serving an unjust five-year prison sentence. Instead, Egyptian authorities have kept ...

Alaa Abdel Fattah tells his family in a letter from prison he has broken a seven-month hunger strike.

We, a group of leaders from human rights organizations, writers, and public media figures, appeal to you to grant clemency to Egyptian-British writer Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who has spent nearly a ...

An Israeli air strike on the home of pediatrician Dr Alaa al-Najjar killed nine of her 10 children in Khan Younis.

Alaa Abdel Fattah’s own hunger strike in 2022, as Egypt hosted the UN climate conference, led to international pressure for his release and an improvement in his conditions in jail.

Alaa Safi is a French actor, director, and producer. He was the world champion in Tae Kwon Do at 18, then began his TV/Film career as an action actor and ...