Mohamed Hussein Tantawi

July 19, 2024 | Haisam Hassanein |

Sisi’s New Cabinet Reflects Continuity Over Change

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi accepted the credentials of a new cabinet on July 3, stating that its main priorities will be the economy, investments, and social services. However, some of the...

September 17, 2012 |

Do Americans Dare Trust Egypt’s President Morsi?

The dramatic attacks on the U.S. embassy in Cairo capped off a summer in which Egypt has already seen its greatest political developments in 150 years. The first democratic elections since 1950 b...

September 13, 2012 |

What Happened in Cairo

On the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an Egyptian mob stormed the U.S. emba...

August 16, 2012 |

What Egypt’s President Is Up To

Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s housecleaning over the last two weeks—dismissing...

August 15, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

The Israeli-American Divide

Israel fears a crisis in Egypt, but the U.S. remains calm. How did these allies come to see things so differently?

April 25, 2012 |

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...

March 27, 2012 |

A Tale of Two Egyptian Armies

Last week, the Obama administration started releasing the $1.3 billion in U.S. milita...

November 28, 2011 | Khairi Abaza International Herald Tribune

Egypt’s Military Must Step Aside

With only days left before Egyptians are to vote in their first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, thousands of protesters spanning every political ideology, from secular to Islamist, hav...

August 3, 2011 |

The Way Forward for Egypt

Egypt’s deposed former president Hosni Mubarak made his first appearance in his trial in Cairo today.  On Monday, Mubarak’s former subordinates in the military retook Ca...

February 8, 2011 | CJ Radin Long War Journal

Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Army remain aloof from protests

Ever since protests broke out in Egypt on Jan. 25 calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, much speculation has focused on two groups: the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. Both...