U.S. Bright Star Participation and the Push for Egyptian Reform
U.S. and Egyptian military forces, beginning Saturday, will participate in a joint exercise in Egypt called “Bright Sta...
Hosni Mubarak
Unlikely Allies, Israel and Egypt Face Joint Challenge in Gaza
The winds of war are blowing in Gaza. The last several months have been replete with rocket barrages, drones, incendiary balloons and kites (flaming or containing explosives) flying into Israeli airsp...
Op-eds
The Manchester Attack Shows How Terrorists Learn
Yesterday’s terrorist attack that struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Britain’s Manchester Arena—leaving 22 people dead and 59 injured, by the ...
Op-eds
Mubarak Freed, Egypt Shrugs
Hosni Mubarak was freed Friday from a military hospital in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, six years after mas...
Policy Briefs
Egypt Picks Sides in the Syrian War
On February 1, a military transport plane left a Russian airbase in Latakia, Syria, landed at an airfield...
Op-eds
Egypt’s Unlikely Ardor for Trump
More than three weeks after the election, the American public remains divided...
Op-eds
Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease
America’s settled policy of standing by while half a million Syrians have been killed, millions have become refugees, and large swaths of their country have been re...
Op-eds
The Israel-Egypt partnership deepens
Egypt last week marked Revolution Day, the day commemorating the 1952 Free Officers' revolt that toppled the playboy King Farouk. Next door in Israel, the Egyptian embassy threw a party....
Op-eds
By blocking UN vote, Egypt sticks finger in Turkey’s eye
Egypt blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution this past Saturday that...
Op-eds
Hamas and Egypt Make Amends?
A steady stream of reports in recent weeks has suggested that Egypt is burying the hatchet with Hamas. The Washington Post saw an “...
Op-eds
Containing ISIS, keeping Assad weak
Israel should favor a Kurdish state and Druse autonomy in Syria; must prevent Islamic State from securing a presence on its border; has the tools to deter Hezbollah; and would like to see Preside...
Op-eds
Al-Jazeera Files $150M Claim Against Egypt for Harassment of Journalists
The Al-Jazeera news network has filed a $150M arbitration claim against the government of Egypt, making good on a three-year-old threat to seek redress for what it describes as the persecution of...
Op-eds
Dissent likely to be muted on Egyptian revolution’s fifth anniversary
Monday is the fifth anniversary of Egypt's Jan. 25 revolution, but you'd be forgiven for not noticing. The government is waging the ...
Op-eds
Five Years Later: How the US and EU Failed the Arab Spring
Thursday marked the five-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Arab Spring when a young Tunisian, Muhammad Bouazizi, set himself ablaze in 2010 to protest the regime’s seizure of his vege...
Op-eds
Freed Prisoner’s Plight Underscores Egypt’s Security Failings
Egypt and Israel completed a prisoner swap on Thursday that included the release of an Israeli Be...
Op-eds
The Sinai Crash is Sisi’s Nightmare
It’s still too early to definitively state the cause of the Russian airliner crash...
Policy Briefs
Victory Without Soldiers?
With the war in Syria becoming ever more complex and murderous, it’s worthwhile to revisit a guiding principle of Barack Obama: The use of American military power is likely to do more harm...
Op-eds
New TV Show Highlights Egypt’s Jewish Problem
A new television series is shaking up the lucrative Ramadan viewing season in Egypt. The program – titled “The Jewish Quarter” and set in the late 1940s and early 50s – de...
Op-eds
Terrorism and Tourism in Egypt
Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at...
Op-eds
When the U.S. Will Intervene in the Gulf, and Other Notes From the Camp David Summit
I've held a number of discussions with people who have direct knowledge of the conversations that took place at this month’s Camp David Summit between President Obama and leaders from...