Opinion

For All the Adulation, Sisi Remains Enigmaic

He is not yet Egypt’s head of state, but certainly looks like one: Nabil Fahmy, the foreign minister, trails a few steps behind, half-obscured...

U.S. Still Declares Support for Muslim Brotherhood

Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Sisi, the man who ousted the Brotherhood to massive praise in Egypt, just went to Russia to meet with President Putin,...

The Rushdie Fatwa 25 Years Later

If Rushdie, 66, is alive and well (if not exactly flourishing; his writings deteriorated after The Satanic Verses), many others lost their lives in...

Salafi Insurgency Fermenting in Northern Sinai

Some of the groups engaged in the fighting are linked to global jihadi networks, including al-Qaeda. Others have connections to elements in Hamas-controlled Gaza....

Egyptian Philosopher Mourad Wahba: Secularism as a Prerequisite for Democracy

The Arab Spring was received with initial enthusiasm in liberal circles. The decades-old political stagnation was finally cracking, sparking hope that European-style liberal democracies...

The West’s Crush on Egypt

July and August in Cairo were horribly brutal months by any measure, but equating Egypt’s unrest with Syria’s implosion, as a number of friends...

The Egyptian Economy Needs to Get Out of Its Morass

This emboldens me to address this very important aspect of the developing 'new democracy' in Egypt. This article is written to the so-called 'man...

Balancing Act

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