Al-Azhar mosque is expected to be the scene of a mass demo against Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni over his recent veil remarks, tomorrow following the Friday prayers. Both the Muslim Brothers and the Islamist-leaning Labor Party supporters are expected to be present and have a leading role.

Already thousands of Muslim Brothers supporters have demonstrated this week in universities in Cairo and the provinces, demanding the minister’s resignation. Below are pix shot by Amr Abdallah of a protest at Al-Azhar University campus in Nasr City last Monday, that was further flared by security agents assaults against Islamist female students who were distributing leaflets.

Artists and Writers for Change, one of Kefaya’s offshoots, issued a statement. While refusing to support Forouk Hosni, for his corrupting role in the country’s cultural life, the movement denounced the attack on freedom of expression by the Muslim Brotherhood and “some of the NDP poles,” and called up on the activists to devote their energies to the more urgent political and social struggles.