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 [...]
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 [...]
