On Wednesday, I watched aerial footage of Egypt on fire. The bright orange flames in the urban jungle of Cairo reminded me of wild fires on National Geographic. Only here it was buildings, houses, cars, offices, [...]
The visible displeasure of Moroccans over the past week has shaken the government all the way up to the top: The almighty king of Morocco was compelled to issue a declaration after days of protests, backtracking on [...]
Finding spaces for sanity and reason amidst Egypt's extreme polarization can be a difficult task when political factions seem intent on walking the road to extremism. Luckily for the rest of us, a small [...]
At times it was the plague. At others it was cholera or scabies. Supporters of the military takeover in Egypt sure aren't shy about expressing their contempt for the Muslim Brotherhood and its [...]
"Chinese Graffiti in Egypt Causes a Stir in China," reads the title of one article concerning the defacement recently discovered in Egypt’s Luxor Temple: a Chinese boy wrote, atop a millennial carving, that he “was here”. The story [...]
For Foreign Policy: Transitions. You’d think we'd won the World Cup: cars honking, loud celebratory music, people carrying flags. There are also flags hanging from the military helicopters flying at low altitude above Egypt's [...]
Slightly longer version of the version published at Foreign Policy. Hundreds of thousands of readers saw this image in their newspaper: A woman in a niqab with a bruised and bloodied left eye that you [...]
Originally published at Foreign Policy: Transitions. These little bastards were responsible for blocking Tunisia's internet. Tunis, Tunisia. The humming of the censorship equipment that ran in Tunis is barely audible, but intimidating nevertheless. You can't [...]
For Foreign Policy: Transitions. Lately I've found myself thinking back to those horrible American soap operas (the "Bold and the Beautiful," etc.) that my late grandmother used to watch. She managed to find [...]
For FP: Transitions. I don't know much about the code of conduct of U.N. Peacekeepers, such as those deployed in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). But I'm going [...]
