Opinion

Three years ago, Tunisia was the starting point for the upheavals that swept across the Arab world. A street vendor set fire to himself...

It was July 3, 2013, and the streets of downtown Cairo were heavy with anticipation. Two days earlier, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the head...

Of course, the odds are stacked heavily against the Brotherhood in this struggle, since it lacks the state’s repressive capabilities. And yet it will...

A couple weeks earlier, Emad Shahin, a less politically prominent (and far less politically involved) academic, known among his colleagues and students for his...

An important indicator of the status of Egypt’s democratic experiment is the current state of freedom of religion or belief. Why religious freedom? Past...

Let’s start with Tunisia, where the country’s National Constituent Assembly has forged a new Constitution that, as The Times reported, “is a carefully worded...

The fact is that, though of course there are individual grievances or reasons for the violence in each country, there is one thing self-evidently...

Never mind that military aid is as useful for promoting democracy as a screwdriver is for hammering a nail. Washington’s hand wringing regarding Egypt’s...