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As always, no one hears about this: “Egyptian chosen best innovator in Africa”
Googling "Mohamed Sanad Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA)" gives you hits in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Tunisia. None in Egypt. And in Arabic, Ahram has two lines - literally: 32 words! - on him. There's [...]
Your Handy Map of Cairo Walls
I wrote that nearly two months ago and, for some reason, never published it... here it is. Think of it as a handy map to go find the now artistically tagged walls mentioned here! ------------------ [...]
Ikhwan: Gut feeling economic policy-making
There you have it. This is how the Muslim Brotherhood (the Ikhwan, in Arabic), through its official twitter account, sums up its policy about one of the most contentious issues in our economic policy making: [...]
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 [...]
عشر نصائح لخالد علي
عزيزي خالد علي. سعدت بإنضمامك للسباق الرئاسي. و إن لم أحسم أمري فيمن سأعطيه صوتي أو لا لكني فخور أن الشرفاء من بلادنا مستعدون للوقوف أمام أعدائها من الداخل ممن يتدثرون بعباءة الشرف العسكري أو [...]
The Boy who Cried Nose Job
My story for FP Transitions. Boy that was fun to write. THE NOSE JOB SCANDAL IN CAIRO How do you conceal that you had a nose job? Easy. Fake a murder attempt. Anwar [...]
عبد المنعم أبو الفتوح في إخوان هايتس: ضع أفضل تعليق على الصورة!
أسكن معنا في إخوان هايتس، حيث لن ترى مطلقا الشعب الكادح اللي بيموت عشان إسطوانة بوتاجاز أنا واثق أن اللي عمل الإعلان كان حاسس أنه بيبدع. و أنا شخصيا أشكره لأنه أعطانا أفضل [...]
Playing a dangerous game in Egypt
I've tried to avoid writing about it but to no avail. My latest piece in Foreign Policy is about the #NGOcrackdown debacle, how SCAF aren't completely irrational sons of bitches, and that by betting the [...]
The Parliamentary Azan: why religious posturing sells
Cross-posted in Foreign Policy Mag under the title- The battle over religion heats up in Egypt [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KcwozhUOw1o] "You're not more Muslim than the rest of us!" So shouted Parliament speaker Saad El-Katatany [...]
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Egypt After the Spring: Revolt and Reaction.
Egypt After the Spring: Revolt and Reaction. This Adelphi volume brings together senior sch olars as well as rising analysts of Egypt to examine the tumultuous period from the January 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, [...]
The US elections (and their aftermath), covered as we do African elections
Had to be done (actually surprised it hasn't already): Writing about the latest US elections like US media writes about African countries. **COUNTRY CRISIS WATCH** [insert CNN "breaking news" type of jingle] The US of A, [...]
Refugees don’t want handouts: they want jobs
Jobs would give refugees both money and dignity Image: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke Polykastro, Greece Khaled wakes up early. Most people in the refugee camp in Polykastro, in northern Greece, do – the tents [...]