“Mapping the World’s Friendships” is an entertaining interactive map that displays the ‘closest friends’ for each country based on its users friends. Egypt's main friends abroad, according to Facebook For the [...]
Update: Republished in Real Clear World Republished in Outlook India (under the title “Morsi’s Code”, which I like!) Republished in Khaleej Times ——————— Morsi, with a moderate stance, could signal a more active Egypt in [...]
I'm trying to make sense of it all and organize my thoughts as news, analysis and speculations keep coming, so bear with me. Let’s first try to understand what this is not. It is not [...]
It’s not that the film is about theft: from everyone loves a good heist film [the Italian Job! Ocean’s 11, 12, 13!], never more so when the money is being stolen from the bad guy. [...]
Hello again! A second blog post this week, also originally posted at "Foreign Policy - Transitions" -- a brief reminder of why the revolution is not over and that battling military rule is as much [...]
Long overdue but worth a post as the topic regularly keeps coming back. First posted at Foreign Policy Transitions. This is what I received by email. Classy, right? Since the presidential elections [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
