Originally posted on FP transitions, and I forgot to post it here.. This week I attended two events in Cairo devoted to Egypt’s economic situation, but the setting could easily have been any point [...]
As I looked at this photo [source] of Mohamed Morsi praying Juma'a in Italy, surrounded from three sides by his security detail, I remembered this beautiful story from the days of Omar Ibn El Khattab. A [...]
Crossposted at Foreign Policy: Transitions "I demand the expulsion of diaspora Copts from Egypt," said a placard held by a young man in jeans and a T-shirt at the U.S. embassy protest here in Cairo yesterday. On a [...]
“Mapping the World’s Friendships” is an entertaining interactive map that displays the ‘closest friends’ for each country based on its users friends. Egypt's main friends abroad, according to Facebook For the [...]
Cross-posted on Foreign Policy Transitions With her white hijab and the slight gap between her teeth, Fatma Nabil looks like my cousin. She probably looks like everybody’s cousin. Yet after presenting the afternoon news last week, Fatma [...]
