مذكرات التحرير في معرض تونس للكتاب!
كتاب "مذكرات التحرير" الذي يؤرخ ليوميات مجموعة من الكتاب و الصحافيين النشطاء في ايام الثورة المصرية، في معرض تونس للكتاب. لو كنتم هناك، احصلوا على نسختكم الان :) The Arabic edition of our collection memoir [...]
November 2012
The sad reality of Egypt’s vaunted military
My latest piece on the #EgyArmy, for Foreign Policy Magazine. Hey, I'm just finding this in the newspaper. Don't shoot the messenger... An Egyptian expatriate friend asked me recently about the state of the Egyptian [...]
October 2012
أفكار منتصف الليل: عن الأخت ساندي، و أعداء الدين من الداخل
يا ترى الإعصار سأل اللي في العربية دي مسلمين ولا بيعبدوا الشمس؟ الساعة الواحدة صباحا بتوقيت بوسطن و فيه إعصار أنا سامعه برة و المطر بيضرب على الزجاج. إعصار اسمه ساندي، على رأي [...]
Muslim Brotherhood in Autocomplete
These are the Google search suggestions based on other users' searches, when using Google.com from a US IP address. Muslim Brotherhood in the White House. Essam El-Erian just got a hard-on.
Egypt subsidises the “Dictatorship for Beginners” manual…
Originally published in Foreign Policy: Transitions. RHS: “The Great Bahgatos is on the People’s hearts”LHS: “Bahgatia’s Statue of Liberty” – “safety matches” – “The Law”My father recently bought a new copy of an old book. [...]
Why are we arresting kids for blasphemy in Egypt?
My latest post for Foreign Policy Transitions. I am genuinely upset. Some things in Egypt are devolving from ‘seriously ridiculous’ to ‘batshit crazy’. Arresting children for blasphemy is one such instance. “The most certain test [...]
September 2012
Rocking Egyptian economic policy like it’s 2010
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 [...]
Morsi vs. Omar
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 [...]
Here we go again: Islamophobia and protests
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 [...]
Who are your country’s Facebook friends?
“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 [...]