Opinion

Why a Lynching Is No Way to Celebrate Freedom

According to a recent Zogby poll, while 57 percent of Egyptians were full of hope after Morsy won a democratic election that was seen...

Will June 30 Be Midnight for Morsi’s Cinderella Story?

I share that sense of confusion and uncertainty -- but I also feel as deep concern and foreboding as I have at any moment...

Egypt’s Countdown to June 30

Islamists who support Morsi's government, primarily from the Muslim Brotherhood, responded with a counter-signature drive of their own called Tagarrod -- or "Impartiality" --...

Egypt Protesters Look to Army Backing

After that, they believe that the Islamists have misruled so badly that a new election would yield a different result.Morsi's backers, in turn, say...

Egypt Turns on Shiites

Sam Tadros, author of “Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity,” on the military’s signal it might soon intervene to preserve the...

Obama Doctrine: Alliance with Muslim Brotherhood to Promote Middle East “Stability”

“One of those obscure Middle East events of the utmost significance that is ignored by the Western mass media, especially because they happen in...

Egypt’s Perilous Drift

He has no choice, he says, because his fuel costs are spiking. You can watch the subsidized-flour bags being carried on shoulders out the...

How to Understand Islamism: Read What its Leaders Really Say

It’s easy to see why al-Qaradawi is the leading Sunni Islamist thinker in the world today, the spiritual guide behind Egypt’s Islamist revolution. He...

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