Press
Below are my latest published press articles, along with some interviews.
Egypt’s foreign relations, in light of the new Morsi-SCAF dance
Yale Global Magazine, 21 August 2012
Republished in Real Clear World, Outlook India, and Khaleej Times
NiTON: Nations in Transition Olympic News
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 30 July 2012
Egypt ‘celebrates’ 60 years of military occupation
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 25 July 2012
My first lady doesn’t wear a tiara (and that’s a good thing)
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 24 July 2012
#SudanRevolts: Why we’re ignoring the revolution in Sudan
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 05 July 2012
WWMBD? (What will the Muslim Brotherhood do?)
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 22 June 2012
Why the bad news in Egypt is worse than you thought
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 15 June 2012
The Five Stages of Electoral Grief
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 05 June 2012
Tunisia Stakes a Claim
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 21 May 2012
A bitter presidential vote
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 18 May 2012
“Tunis Reads” as Tunisians reclaim their public space
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 23 April 2012
And in French in Slate Afrique: Tunisie, Nouveau modele Arabe?
More disqualified candidates: elections make even less sense now
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 16 April 2012
Attention all dictators: A Manual for Constitutional Disaster
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 09 April 2012
Tunisia: Of flags and Salafis
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 03 April 2012
Art Conquers Walls in Cairo
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 19 March 2012
The Nose Job Scandal in Cairo
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 05 March 2012
Playing a Dangerous game in Egypt
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 21 February 2012
The battle over religion heats up in Egypt
Foreign Policy - Transitions blog, 9 February 2012
Where Will the Muslim Brotherhood Take Egypt’s Economy?
Yale Global Magazine, 6 February 2012
[Republished in the Jakarta Post, Outlook India, and The Daily Star]
Egypt’s tragedy: This is not just soccer violence
Foreign Policy – Transitions blog, 1 February 2012
Twitter boycott? No, let’s trust it
The Guardian, 27 January 2012
A family portrait of Egypt’s Revolution
Foreign Policy – Transitions blog, 25 January 2012
We’re all Americans now (and not in a good way)
Foreign Policy – Transitions blog, 19 January 2012
Playing Hard to Get with the IMF
Foreign Policy – Transitions blog, 12 January 2012
A Voter’s Lament
Foreign Policy Magazine, 29 November 2011
The Simple Technology of Electoral Advertisement In Egypt
The Huffington Post, 29 November 2011
The Sacking of Dina Abdul Rahman is a threat to the freedom of Media in Egypt
Index on Censorship, 5 August 2011
Egyptian Youth Sidelined from their Own Revolution
Yale Global, 19 July 2011
* Reprinted in the South China Morning Post, 25 July 2011
*and in the Daily Star (Lebanon), 3 August 2011
Meeting the French “Subversive Elements” That Israel Fears So Much
The Huffington Post, 12 July 2011
Egypt must embrace an independent South Sudan
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 9 July 2011
Egyptian journalist tried before military court following January revolution
Index on Censorship, 28 June 2011
Vodafone Egypt’s PR fail
Index on Censorship, 3 June 2011
Sectarian strife escalated by new political and religious forces
Index on Censorship, 2 June 2011
Protesters still face challenges in post-revolutionary Egypt
Index on Censorship, 31 May 2011
Facebook has little to fear from Muslim social networking sites
The Guardian, 31 May 2011 [NB: Article's full version is here].
Bazinga! – Palestine’s tech entrepreneur factory emerges
TechCrunch, 30 May 2011
Revolution 2.0
Foreign Policy Magazine, 25 May 2011
Egyptian Revolution Inspires Artists
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), 11 March 2011
Revolutionary Role for Egyptian Women
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), 8 March 2011
Still Fighting in Cairo
Foreign Policy Magazine, 7 March 2011
The economic revolution is yet to happen
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 5 March 2011
The revolution was not about Israel
+972 Magazine, 3 March 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood in post-revolutionary Egypt
Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review, , 1 March 2011
The ‘Demubarakization’ of Egypt
The New York Times, 1 March 2011
Tweeting Tahrir
The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), 22 February 2011
Victors, Martyrs and Mourning
The New York Times, 20 February 2011
A cautious Faith in the Army
The New York Times, 14 February 2011
Detained in Cairo
The New Yorker, 4 February 2011
Egypt: “The People / Demand / the Fall of the Regime” – Eyewitness Account
The Huffington Post, 1 February 2011
Al-Masry Al-Youm 31 January 2011
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 30 January 2011
The Referendum for Northern Sudan’s self-determination?
The Huffington Post, 25 January 2011
Egypt: The saddest new year’s day
The Huffington Post, 3 January 2011
Al-Masry Al-Youm,17 December 2010
The Importance of Being Mohammed
The Guardian, 29 October 2010
School’s out for Egypt’s sex education
The Guardian, 7 October 2010
Arab researchers fill breach at Stockholm’s World Water Week
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 21 September 2010
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 13 September 2010
Developing world’s megacities struggle to conserve water
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 12 September 2010
Obama and Garang in the Juba market
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 29 July 2010
Juba: Capital of an almost state
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 27 July 2010
Money talks at royal weddings
The Guardian, 19 June 2010
The Jews of Egypt: A tale of love and cold shoulders
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 2 April 2010
Coverage of the ArabNet conference in Beirut (3 articles):
Egypt’s Internet entrepreneurs: Resilient despite difficulties
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 1 April 2010
Are social media users in the Arab world different?
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 27 March 2010
Arab IT start-ups, entrepreneurs meet at Beirut conference
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 25 March 2010
Davos: Not much for the Middle East
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 8 February 2010
Parliamentary elections are key to Sudan peace
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 2 February 2010
A bitter pill to swallow
The Guardian, 24 January 2010
Ministry takes up residence in Cairo synagogue
France 24 – The Observers, 1 January 2010 (also available in French and in Arabic)
With the “Gaza Freedom March”, Egypt is on the wrong side of the Palestinian cause (again)
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 29 December 2009
The curious case of a Cairo synagogue
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 15 December 2009
World Aids Day: Struggling to raise awareness
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 1 December 2009
The Turks are back
Al-Masry Al-Youm, 17 November 2009
Egypt’s football party gets out of hand
The Guardian, 16 November 2009
RANDOMLY SELECTED MEDIA INTERVIEWS: (i.e., the ones I could get my hands on)
World Hijab Day: Muslims debate where the headscarf belongs
Christian Science Monitor, 4 September 2012
“Cada voto importa en Egipto”
La Vanguardia, 23 May 2012
Podcast: Mediatwits #38: Online Report from Tunisia
MediaShift, February 17, 2012
The Spectator, 26 November 2011
Social media: From Egypt’s revolution to Karachi
The Express Tribune, 12 June 2011
International bloggers network in Karachi at first-ever social media summit
The Express Tribune, 12 June 2011
کراچی میں بلاگرز کا اجتماع
BBC Urdu, 11 June 2011
Sociala medier som megafon
DIK (Sweden), 4 March 2011
Du blog à la rue, les espoirs de la jeunesse égyptienne
Le Temps, 3 Mars 2011
“Egypt will never be the same after these protests”
Euronews, 30 January 2011
En El corazon de la plaza Tahrir
Euronews, 30 January 2011
RADIO INTERVIEWS:
Education à coups de bâtons
Radio France International, 26 Fevrier 2010
Tension Algérie-Egypte sur fond de rivalité sportive
Radio France International, 13 Novembre 2009
