Empty Talk on Tahrir Square
“We’ve agreed on a plan,” says a young man, as if carrying tablets down from the mountain. He shows us photos of his once-beaten face on his mobile phone. “We have a new initiative. Yes, we [...]
By Maria Golia The Laughter Is Dying Down in Egypt
I attended a Cairo costume party in the 1990s, where friends dressed as “terrorists” in Salafist garb, and a male Copt came in a niqab, parodying cultural phenomenon that seemed ludicrously alien [...]
Dossier Details Egypt’s Case Against Democracy Groups
The prosecution’s dossier also shows leaps of logic in a case that has imperiled a decades-old alliance with Washington and threatened Egypt with the loss of $1.5 billion in aid. The case, for [...]
After Revolution, Women’s Taste of Equality Fades
Kamel campaigns often in Tahrir Square. It represents, she says, the spirit of what Egypt could be. But the farther one travels from Tahrir Square, the more the revolutionary fervor that [...]
The Hijacking of the Constitution
By IBRAHIM ISSA I don’t have a scintilla of doubt that the Military Council will not issue a new constitutional declaration to determine for the parliament particular standards for its selection [...]
Orchestrated Campaign Against Human Rights Organizations: Facts Absent; the Public Intentionally Misled
STATEMENT BY EGYPTIAN NGOs – FEBRUARY 15, 2012. The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the ongoing slandering and intimidation of civil society organizations, particularly human [...]
Orchestrated Campaign Against Human Rights Organizations: Facts Absent; the Public Intentionally Misled
STATEMENT BY EGYPTIAN NGOs – FEBRUARY 15, 2012. The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the ongoing slandering and intimidation of civil society organizations, particularly human [...]
2,000 Muslims Attempt to Kill Pastor and Torch Church in Egypt
The mob demanded the return Rania of Khalil Ibrahim, 15, to her father. She has been held with the Security Directorate since yesterday. Christian-born Rania had converted to Islam three months [...]
Obama: Jimmy Carter’s Second Term
The bitter irony in all that was that Carter had betrayed the Shah of Iran, a longtime U.S. ally, and thereby paved the way for the ascent to power of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian [...]
Egyptian Presidential Candidate Says No Freedom in Islam
Host: You have already begun to try to impose a particular dress code for us. Abu Ismail: I’ve begun to? It’s the Lord of the Worlds [Allah] who said so. I have nothing to do with it! Host: [...]
