My latest post for Foreign Policy Magazine's website*. IN EGYPT, A RECIPE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DISASTER Attention all dictators! Are you looking to pass a constitution tailored to keep you in power while maintaining a semblance [...]
[CROSSPOSTED IN FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE - TRANSITIONS] In the second such incident this month, Tunisia's hardline Salafis decided to scale buildings in order to, well, put up a flag. Seeing the cheers of [...]
I have no doubt she’s “very smart” and a “wonderful human being” and now “a lovely mom” as I was told by her classmates (class of 2006) – some of whom I tutored back in [...]
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 [...]
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! ------------------ [...]
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: [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
