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.
It's been a lousy day all things considered - with the official announcement of the Morsy-Shafeeq run-off, but the comic relief was that a nice hacker broke into the Muslim Brotherhood Twitter accounts, and changed [...]
A guide of the Egyptian elections and its main protagonists, explained for Game of Thrones fans. The comparisons are of course very approximate, I am not familiar with the books and it’s the first [...]
Update: Someone translated this article into French for Slate Afrique: La Tunisie, nouveau modele Arabe? Summary: Tunisia is beginning to assert its leadership role in the Arab world, backed by its revolutionary credentials and buoyed [...]
Long story short: I voted. And I hated it. Crossposted at Foreign Policy Magazine: Transitions. A BITTER PRESIDENTIAL VOTE Yes, that's totally me. My hand is white now. I ticked the ballot, dropped it [...]
