Opinion

The Spoiler on Egypt’s Elections

The Election Commission announced that 318,033 Egyptians voted in Egyptian embassies and consulates around the world, which represents about half of those registered to...

Sisi: A New Nasser or a New Sadat?

It was an understandable question to ask. In the Egyptian press, Sisi has been repeatedly compared in laudatory and glowing terms to the charismatic...

The Tyranny of Blasphemy Laws

Before his arrest, Hafeez was teaching in the English Department at Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan, a city in Punjab Province close to where...

The Muslim Brotherhood Thinks It’s Winning Again

The military fears that a remobilized Brotherhood would quickly win power and seek vengeance. And despite an unrelenting crackdown that has claimed over 2,500 lives and jailed...

Why Should Fair Trials for MB Suspects be Important to Egyptian Christians?

This so despite the unnecessarily harsh sentences, the speed at which they have been issuing, and the clear disregard of the rights of the...

Egypt and the Gulf: When a Free Lunch Is Not Free

Upon hearing the news, one former IMF and Treasury Department official wrote to me: “So it begins…central bank has a delicate balancing act…withhold too...

Near Eastern Promises: Why Washington Should Focus on the Middle East

In spite of himself, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower was sucked into the Suez crisis in 1956 and the pan-Arabist revolts of the late 1950s....

Boko Haram and the Kidnapped Schoolgirls

The translation from the Hausa language is usually given in English-language media as "Western Education Is Forbidden," though "Non-Muslim Teaching Is Forbidden" might be...

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