Luxor
Patient Extremism: The Many Faces of the Muslim Brotherhood
Memos
Terrorism and Tourism in Egypt
Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at...
Op-eds
Egypt’s Religious Freedom Farce
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt presents himself as an Islamic reformer. He has...
Op-eds
ISIL’s International Expansion: What Does Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis’s Oath of Allegiance Mean?
The international expansion of the jihadist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has become a ...
Op-eds
The Truth About ISIS… They’re Better at Twitter Than War
The Islamic State’s real social media skill makes commentators too willing to believe its shaky territorial claims
Op-eds
Murder on the Democracy Express
Who killed Egyptian democracy? Elite foreign-policy analysts have been providing strikingly divergent answers. Egypt’s military is, of course, the prime s...
Op-eds
Prominent al Qaeda Leader Killed in Drone Strike in 2012
Al Qaeda announced the death of Abd el Kader Mahmoud Mohamed el Sayed, a longtime senior jihadist leader and military commander who was killed in a drone strike in Pakistan sometime in the spring...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda Lives
The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12
Op-eds
Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists Helped Incite 9/11 Cairo Protest
Several al Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite the protest outside the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. The jihadists include senior members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a group that merged...
Op-eds
On Egyptian President-elect’s Vow to Work for Blind Sheikh’s Release
The New York Times has a report this morning about the pledge by Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, to work for the release from U.S. p...
Op-eds
Obama Administration’s Breathtaking Arrogance on Questions about Inviting a Terrorist to Washington
One should always hesitate before jumping to the conclusion that the something that just happened is the worst thing that has ever happened — history usually has many worse “worsts&rd...
Op-eds
Releasing the Blind Sheikh?
It is too early to tell, but not too early to be very worried.
Op-eds
The Copts Will Fight
But they won’t win.
Op-eds
Watch the Islamists
An estimated three dozen Islamist militants reportedly escaped from an Egyptian prison on Sunday amid the chaos that has enveloped the country. This did little to quiet the raging debate over the...
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
Gitmo Does Not Cause Terrorism
So we're going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the 200-plus terrorists detained there to a seldom-used civilian correctional center in Tho...
Op-eds
Who Says We Can’t Find Common Ground with al Qaeda?
At his arraignment today, upon being advised by the military court of the possibility that he could be executed if convicted, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the jihadist savage who orchestrated the...
Op-eds
The Blind Sheik’s Mistress
Legal ethics rules in all fifty states absolutely prevent lawyers from assisting their clients in the commission of criminal acts. Confidentiality and lawyer-client privilege rules have, everywhe...
Op-eds
Egypt and Militant Islam
Last week, three suicide bombings within an hour left at least 34 people dead and hundreds wounded at resorts frequented by Israeli tourists in the Taba region of the Sinai Peninsula. In the afte...