By James M. Dorsey Port Said, the Suez Canal city associated with the worst incident in Egyptian sporting history, is emerging as a prime...

Soccer is Politics JAMES M. DORSEY Why Egypt’s repressive regime considers soccer fans one of its biggest threats. Ahmed (not his real...

By James M. Dorsey Egyptian-general-turned-president Abdel Fattah al Sisi’s iron grip on dissident is likely to be put to the test with...

Ahlawy: Football is for Fans (Source: Ahram Online / Shereen Abd El-Azeem By James M. Dorsey Egyptian and Turkish soccer pitches are set...

By James M. Dorsey An expected decision by Egyptian soccer authorities to ban as terrorist organizations groups of militant soccer fans...

By James M. Dorsey Militant, street battle-hardened soccer fans played a key role in toppling Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and...

By James M. Dorsey A soccer brawl last year in which more than 70 militant soccer fans died galvanized significant numbers of Egyptians...

Ultras set Cairo police club on fire By James M. Dorsey The fall-out of last year’s death of 72 soccer fans in a politically-loaded...

Port Said protesters help an injured solider (Source: Al Ahram) By James M. Dorsey A series of soccer protests in the past week in...

Protesters block government offices (Source: Al Jazeera) By James M. Dorsey Thousands of militant soccer fans, in an indication that...

Mass soccer protests By James M. Dorsey Egypt’s premier soccer league is scheduled to resume this weekend for the first time in a year...

Bradley fighting to give fractured Egypt World Cup hope Posted by Jeff Carlisle ESPN FC Bob Bradley says he's been asked a thousand times...

Adding to the powder keg: The Black Bloc (Source: Dalia Rabie/Egypt Independent) By James M. Dorsey Egypt’s military has authorized the...

There will be more deaths to come, as Morsi seems determined to crush and not heed the opposition. The great tragedy is that clearly, as...

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(Source: Vice.com) By James M. Dorsey President Mohammed Morsi’s imposition of a curfew in three Egyptian Suez Canal and Red Sea cities...

(Source: Vice.com) By James M. Dorsey Escalating street violence in the wake of a partial verdict in the Port Said soccer brawl case pits...