Opinion

Oh dear, it wasn’t meant to turn out like this at all! When the Egyptian uprising began almost two years ago, it was cheered...

The Associated Press reported that the draft constitution "largely reflects the conservative vision of the Islamists, with articles that rights activists, liberals and Christians...

The reason is that last Thursday, November 22, Morsi granted himself sweeping new powers. He declared that no court, not even the constitutional court,...

"The term 'Muslim Brotherhood,'" he said, "is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group,...

Several of the articles passed have been a matter of contention. Egypt Independent attempts to identify articles that raised concerns amongst experts in the...

It would seem obvious that the United States has a great interest in seeing moderate forces prevail. Those forces — consisting often of groups...

In Egypt, some things, of course, stayed very much the same. The new Islamist president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, has not broken the peace...

Even as the Israeli government and the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza agree on a ceasefire, the significance of this deal is diluted by...