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February 25, 2014 | |

These Aren’t the Terrorists You’re Looking For

On Feb. 16, a bus full of South Korean tourists was idling near the Taba border crossing in Sou...

July 11, 2013 |

Egyptians Still Hunger for Democracy

Zagazig, Egypt — The Egyptian protests that began on June 30 and culminated in the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi look a lot like the 2011 uprising that brought an end to the 30-year...

June 7, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief

The Backstory Behind Egypt’s NGO Arrests

An Egyptian court convicted 43 people working for foreign democracy and human rights NGOs on Tuesday. Nineteen were Americans working for some of the most established non-profits in the world. So...

March 8, 2013 |

A Star Is Born

The State Department made Samira Ibrahim a heroine.

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...

August 16, 2012 |

What Egypt’s President Is Up To

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

July 24, 2012 |

Egypt and the Rule of Law

Last week, Egypt’s administrative court tried to invalidate the assembly charged with drafting the country’s first constitution since protesters overthrew president Hosni Mubarak over...

June 28, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer Foreign Policy |

If at First You Don’t Succeed…

The Palestinians may appeal to the United Nations for statehood. Again. That was the message out of Ramallah on Sunday, June 24, when Fatah, the dominant Palestinian faction in the West...

June 25, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer

A New Egypt, But Is It An Improvement?

The Post reports: “Egypt’s electoral...

June 25, 2012 | Khairi Abaza

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...

June 19, 2012 | Khairi Abaza CNN

Compromise is Inevitable in Egypt

Egypt’s historic presidential election will not settle the future of the country in one fell swoop, but it traces the contours of a new regime in which the key political actors may ultimate...

June 18, 2012 | Clifford D. May National Review Online

A Little Egyptology

In Egypt over the weekend there was an election, more or less. And a coup — sort of. At least that’s what I took away from a discussion we had here at the...

June 11, 2012 |

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...

May 24, 2012 |

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...

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...

March 5, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard

How to Kill an Economy

Egypt sours on its (lucrative) gas deal with Israel.

February 9, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet

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...

February 6, 2012 |

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...

December 23, 2011 | Khairi Abaza International Herald Tribune

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....