Egypt’s got 99 problems, but US aid ain’t one
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 [...]
October 2013
November 2012
The sad reality of Egypt’s vaunted military
My latest piece on the #EgyArmy, for Foreign Policy Magazine. Hey, I'm just finding this in the newspaper. Don't shoot the messenger... An Egyptian expatriate friend asked me recently about the state of the Egyptian [...]
June 2012
WWMBD? (What will the Muslim Brotherhood do?)
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 [...]
March 2012
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 [...]