Author: Marlene Schröder

Soldiers of the Egytian army in Cairo (photo: Reuters)

The Parallel World of the Egyptian Military

An End to the Oasis for the Privileged

Maher Galal is convinced that the military government will never give up its power freely. As the son of a general, he knows the corrupt parallel system created by the Egyptian military. For years, he profited from the system himself. Now, his wish is for a just society. By Marlene SchröderMore

Interview with the Egyptian Historian Khaled Fahmy: ''The Army Lacks a Vision for the Future''Interview with Bouthaina Kamel: ''The Revolution Is Not Over as Long as the Military Rules''Interview with George Ishak: ''We Need a New Revolution''

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It all began in Dresden on 20 October 2014. Organised by a hitherto unknown movement calling itself "Pegida" (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West), a small group of people took to the streets to demonstrate against what they saw as the Islamisation of the West. The banner reads "non violent and united against religious wars on German soil! PEGIDA". Although small, the march attracted a lot of attention in Germany and around the world.

Germans take to the streets: marching for and against Pegida

In the autumn of 1989, Dresden was one of the East German cities that became known worldwide for the peaceful "Monday demonstrations" against the government of the GDR that precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall a few months later. One of the slogans chanted by the protesters at the time was "Wir sind das Volk" (We are the people). Twenty-five years on, a very different movement began organising weekly Monday demonstrations and chanting "Wir sind das Volk". In this photo gallery, we chart some of the reactions to Pegida and the developments relating to this anti-immigration and anti-Islam movement.