Egypt’s New Political Transition
Egypt’s “Committee of the Fifty,” which serves as a constituent assembly, held its first deliberations last week to draft a new constitution. The meeting was a major milestone,...
Amr Moussa
Egypt’s Future Uncertain as Mubarak’s Health Worsens
With Egypt soon to head into the final round of its first presidential elections, deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak looks to be on his last legs. Though a court recently sentenced him to life in pri...
Op-eds
A Second-Best President for Egypt
This week, Egyptians will elect a president for the first time in their history. Since 1953, the year in which Egypt became a republic, the country’s presidents have been no more than milit...
Op-eds
Egypt’s Presidential Debate was a Historic Triumph for Democracy. So Why Did We Ignore It?
On Thursday night, something historic took place in Egypt: The first televised presidential debate ever held in the Arab world. This was four-and-a-half hours of real cut-and-thrust on sensitive...
Op-eds
Mubarak’s Old Stalwarts Vie for Supremacy
In late May, Egyptians will vote in the first free presidential election in their history. But despite parliamentary elections and other inklings of democracy, the forces of the old dictatorship...
Op-eds
An Ill Season
Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend. They torched the Coptic Christian house...
Op-eds
What Would We Do Without the Arab League?
Little publicized fact: Right up until the Arab League suspended Libya’s participation, due to Gaddafi’s highly visible slaughter of his own people, which country held the annually ro...
Op-eds
Libya’s Backseat Drivers
Maybe the next time Pres. Barack Obama is tempted to follow the leadership of the Arab League, he’ll think twice. Having brandished the Arab League’s call as the classiest of multilat...
Op-eds
The Ossification of Egypt
After decades of looking to Egypt to provide stability in the Middle East, Washington finds Cairo contending with an increasingly dangerous combination of ossified leadership, Islamist violence,...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Cleric Encourages Arab Cooperation with Turkey, Iran
There have been pro-flotilla rallies throughout the Muslim world and some of them have been attended by especially notorious figures. Consider the rallies in Yemen. On June 1, thousands gathered...
Op-eds
Syrian Pressure, Lebanese Blood
Two years after the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, and 22 others, including former Minister Basil Fuleihan, on Tuesday Lebanon was subjected to another terro...