What We Learned This Week: Shawkan Free, Sort of; Alam's Festival Goes On
The Egyptian photojournalist known as Shawkan is free.
Sort of.
Shawkan, whose real name is Mahmoud Abou Zeid, was released this week by Egyptian authorities, five years after he was arrested while covering a 2013 protest in Cairo during which hundreds of supporters of the county’s ousted president, Mohamed Morsy, …