Hello again! A second blog post this week, also originally posted at "Foreign Policy - Transitions" -- a brief reminder of why the revolution is not over and that battling military rule is as much [...]
Long overdue but worth a post as the topic regularly keeps coming back. First posted at Foreign Policy Transitions. This is what I received by email. Classy, right? Since the presidential elections [...]
Crossposted at Foreign Policy Transitions. In brief: besides, as Jon Stewart says, "we don't care to know enough about countries we meddle in", Sudan has suffered for so long from such negative coverage that the [...]
Crossposted at Foreign Policy Transitions. In short: two elected presidents and one who died then resurrected, a (political) party on the street and possible backroom deals, and we haven't got a clue as to where [...]
Crossposted at Foreign Policy Transitions. In short: It's not a coup, but we're screwed anyway. This week, the Egyptian military made its boldest attempt yet to regain control over a country that has been slipping from [...]
Richard Grenell was Mitt Romney's foreign policy until last month, when he was pushed out of his job for being openly gay, which is to Romney and co's shame. For all intents and purposes Grenell's [...]
Egyptian embassy, Tunis. Thanks Samar S. Mezghanni for the photo! It's not that I like him. I hate the living hell out of him. Why did I vote? I hate Shafiq more [...]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_1yj5IlyZqo] Oh. Dear. God. That was my first reaction when I saw this new ad broadcast on a government satellite channel: A young fellow, supposed to be foreign, walks into a cafe plastered with revolutionary slogans (including [...]
a.k.a "the article where I refer to Shafiq and Morsi as "dumb and dumber" and "Bert and Ernie". Crossposted at Foreign Policy Transitions.[and big thanks to my editor Christian Caryl!] The first is denial. And that's what [...]
Because there's no way it'll be worse than Morsy or Shafiq. لأنه في جميع الأحوال مش هايكون أسوأ من مرسي أو شفيق.
