Your Handy Map of Cairo Walls
I wrote that nearly two months ago and, for some reason, never published it... here it is. Think of it as a handy map to go find the now artistically tagged walls mentioned here! ------------------ [...]
March 2012
Ikhwan: Gut feeling economic policy-making
There you have it. This is how the Muslim Brotherhood (the Ikhwan, in Arabic), through its official twitter account, sums up its policy about one of the most contentious issues in our economic policy making: [...]
Art conquers walls in Cairo
[Crossposted in Foreign Policy Magazine Transitions. My Flickr set of the No Walls Project is here.] The Artists at work. WALLS. The Egyptian army's answer to protests has, for the past six [...]
عشر نصائح لخالد علي
عزيزي خالد علي. سعدت بإنضمامك للسباق الرئاسي. و إن لم أحسم أمري فيمن سأعطيه صوتي أو لا لكني فخور أن الشرفاء من بلادنا مستعدون للوقوف أمام أعدائها من الداخل ممن يتدثرون بعباءة الشرف العسكري أو [...]
The Boy who Cried Nose Job
My story for FP Transitions. Boy that was fun to write. THE NOSE JOB SCANDAL IN CAIRO How do you conceal that you had a nose job? Easy. Fake a murder attempt. Anwar [...]
February 2012
عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح في إخوان هايتس: ضع أفضل تعليق على الصورة!
أسكن معنا في إخوان هايتس، حيث لن ترى مطلقا الشعب الكادح اللي بيموت عشان إسطوانة بوتاجاز أنا واثق أن اللي عمل الإعلان كان حاسس أنه بيبدع. و أنا شخصيا أشكره لأنه أعطانا أفضل [...]
Playing a dangerous game in Egypt
I've tried to avoid writing about it but to no avail. My latest piece in Foreign Policy is about the #NGOcrackdown debacle, how SCAF aren't completely irrational sons of bitches, and that by betting the [...]
The Parliamentary Azan: why religious posturing sells
Cross-posted in Foreign Policy Mag under the title- The battle over religion heats up in Egypt [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KcwozhUOw1o] "You're not more Muslim than the rest of us!" So shouted Parliament speaker Saad El-Katatany [...]
Where Will the Muslim Brotherhood Take Egypt’s Economy?
Mohamed El Dahshan YaleGlobal, 6 February 2012 Islamic tide: Mass support for Muslim Brotherhood gives the party power, plus the burden of running Egypt's broken economy CAIRO: Egypt’s new parliament is taking seat amid ongoing [...]
Egypt’s tragedy: This is not just soccer violence
My post for Foreign Policy's Transitions blog, from this morning at 5 am. As the first trains were bringing in the remains of the dead to Cairo. I am angry, and I am sad. -------------- [...]