The authors of the draft constitution that will be presented for approval to Egyptian voters over the next few days have quietly erased a provision of utmost importance to the country's entrepreneurs: Article 17 of [...]
The anti-revolutionary crowd love to look at us with incredulous eyes, and ask "but why would the army want to take over power? They have no interest in being in power! They're better off being [...]
كنت في لقاء على قناة دي ام تي في في برنامج "من الآخر" - استمتعت بشدة و ضحكت كثيرا مع المقدمين الرائعين. انا شخصيا كنت لسبب ما عامل زي واحد شارب 12 اسبريسو و انا [...]
This past week, representatives from some 20 countries in the Arabic-speaking world and beyond got together, once again, to talk about Internet freedom in the region. The meeting was particularly interesting, convening as it did [...]
Few people, even among their most ardent detractors, would argue with a straight face that Muslim Brotherhood supporters, with all their shortcomings, are being treated fairly right now: an apparent compassion deficit has meant that, [...]
Update 2: Response from Reuters Foundation journalist Crina Boros - scroll to comments ---- Tayeb. Let’s be clear that this is no defense of Egypt and the abysmal state of women’s rights in this country. [...]
There’s a strange practice in Egyptian media: it refers to nearly every country, particularly developing ones, as a “sister country”. Newspaper articles never fail to mention “Sister Tunisia” or “Brother Iraq”. If it’s not [...]
I'm not sure what the U.S. government was hoping to achieve by suspending some of its military assistance to Egypt, but whatever it was -- it failed. Though the State Department declared that the [...]
"At least we're number one at something, even if it's from the bottom," quipped one of my friends in Cairo. We had just finished reading the recently issued World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014, [...]
Just in case you can't get enough of the Lebanese army billboards on the main highways in Lebanon, you can now carry them in your pocket, too: the "Lebanese Army - LAF Shield" has finally landed [...]
