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When Palestine isn’t making headlines…
... this is what happens there, on a daily basis. Watch the 3-minute video summary of 2011, by the ever-remarkable Israeli Human Rights organization B'Tselem. It's a short window about life in Palestine. I also [...]
Madam Mubarak (and the children)
I really just wanted to publish this photo from 1984, taken when our former-future-King Gamal graduated from the American University in Cairo, because I think the moustaches on Alaa and Gamal look hilarious. Very teenage. [...]
في ثلاجة الموتى في القصر العيني
16 ديسمبر - بعد منتصف الليل. الخرم في ظهر أشرف صغير جداً. عند قلبه تقريباً. مطرح ما الرصاصة خرجت. من كتر ما كان صغير مكنتش مصدق إنه ممكن يقتل.. بس مش عايز كلب يقوللي إن [...]
The Gulf Tour
Friends, I am currently in Dubai as an invited speaker at the Arab Thought Foundation 10th Annual Conference. Earlier today (well yesterday technically) I spoke on a panel on the Economic Challenges of the Arab [...]
The Ikhwanmobile
As in "automobile", not "mobile phone". (Think Batmobile). There are several, actually - these are photos I took myself in the past couple of days: 03 December 2011 (less than two days before the [...]
A Voter’s Lament [Foreign Policy Magazine]
I voted, but I'm not excited... these are my - incoherent, rambling, angry - thoughts about the elections, for FP Magazine. --- Egypt's elections weren't supposed to be this way. Our first "post-revolution" (sigh…) elections [...]
Some photos from Election Day yesterday
Process violation: Man (right) filling his ballot on the window sill, at the 'suggestion' of the poll station workers Quirky advertisement for a candidate entertaining the people at the queue --> A few photos are [...]
The customary inked finger photo, with a twist.
That one's for Egypt ... And that one's for #SCAF. خوووووود! #NoSCAF #NoMilTrials
The Simple Technology of Electoral Advertisement In Egypt [Huffington Post article]
I received a text message and two envelopes containing election campaigning material today at my home in Cairo. One envelope was sent by mail, obviously part of a wide postal promotional campaign covering my district; [...]
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Egypt After the Spring: Revolt and Reaction.
Egypt After the Spring: Revolt and Reaction. This Adelphi volume brings together senior sch olars as well as rising analysts of Egypt to examine the tumultuous period from the January 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, [...]
The US elections (and their aftermath), covered as we do African elections
Had to be done (actually surprised it hasn't already): Writing about the latest US elections like US media writes about African countries. **COUNTRY CRISIS WATCH** [insert CNN "breaking news" type of jingle] The US of A, [...]
Refugees don’t want handouts: they want jobs
Jobs would give refugees both money and dignity Image: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke Polykastro, Greece Khaled wakes up early. Most people in the refugee camp in Polykastro, in northern Greece, do – the tents [...]