Egypt’s Never-Ending Revolution
Since January 25, Egypt has witnessed an unprecedented wave of nationwide protests which have left more than 60 people dead. The country remains in a state of lawlessness. The protests,...
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The Rise of Egypt’s Jon Stewart
The popularity of satirist Bassem Youssef may show that the government can’t stifle public debate
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The Mirage of the Arab Spring
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So when protests broke out against the authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, most of us were supportive...
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A Blind Spot
Jihadi radicalisation and religious ideology One area of study that has significantly grown over the past decade is that of radicalisation. How do individuals come to be...
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Fatal Arab Spring
EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI The Cairo Speech illusion may now be over. To lead, America must be feared, not loved. Much energy was invested in recent years to improve America&rs...
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What Happened in Cairo
On the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an Egyptian mob stormed the U.S. emba...
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Fate Sealed for Egypt’s Jews
Islamists storm the U.S. embassy and Egypt’s last Jews have no rabbi. Shanah tova from the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Obama’s ‘Alert Observation’ of Anti-Christian Violence Must End
As Nina Shea discussed below, Pakistani authorities have incarcerated a...
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The Mideast’s Vanishing Christians
Times are tough for Christian communities across the Middle East. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was putting it lightly when she said that Coptic Christians &ld...
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What’s Next for Egypt?
The Muslim Brotherhood, which won the presidency Saturday, sees itself as a corrective to modern Egyptian life
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Islamist’s Win in Egypt Leaves US Uncertain
Egyptians celebrated Sunday the election of their country's first freely elected president - Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who becomes the first Islamist head of state of the Ara...
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The Bin Laden Files
What the al Qaeda leader's final correspondence tells us about his legacy.
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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...
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It’s Not the Arab Spring, It’s the Nahda
And it’s about “subjugating people” and “the Islamization of life.”
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First the Ahmadi, Then Everybody Else
It isn’t al-Qaeda that’s slaughtering religious minorities in Muslim lands.
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Hostage Crisis
Since last month, 19 Americans working with pro-democracy nonprofit organizations have been under investigation for trumped-up charges of operating without proper registration. On Monday, the Egy...
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The Military, Not Mubarak, was Egyptians’ Real Enemy
Aside from Egypt, perhaps no place in the world was more galvanized by the events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year than Washington. American policymakers and foreign policy experts on bot...
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When Will the West Act Against Persecution of Christians in the Middle East?
Co-authored by Giulio Meotti The case of the Iranian pastor sentenced to death for his faith has attached a human face to the horrible situation of Christians in the...
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Minority Interest
Being Christian in the Middle East has never been easy, but the wave of uprisings that has swept the region over the past year has made the situation for the region’s Christian minority alm...
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Is Egypt Flying Apart at the Seams?
Egypt has seen an alarming rise in violence this past week between protesters and security forces — a stark illustration that the army has botched the country’s political transition....