On Jan. 25, the third anniversary of ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak's ouster, violence broke out on Egypt's streets, led by mobs exacting vigilante justice on anyone who dared to question the government. The clashes came just [...]
I had the pleasure of speaking at the TEDxCairo conference last December - my first TEDx speech in Arabic, and it was a ton of fun. Titled "Democratising Entrepreneurship", I spoke of the opportunities and [...]
I feel really strongly about Bahrain - not only because of friends there, but also because I feel that I am probably not doing enough to publicize what's going on there. So here's a very [...]
How i spent my February 11th. Crossposted on FP Transitions. There is one tradition that Muslims and Jews in the West agree on: They both like to eat Chinese food on Christmas Eve. It's [...]
Sorry I haven't written in a while! Been hectic, work, travels, which I promise to write more about. In the meantime: my latest post for Foreign Policy Transitions can be summed up as follows: Hamada [...]
Back to writing! My latest for Foreign Policy: Transitions. On Bourguiba avenue, 14 January 2012. Two years! It's been two years since Ben Ali packed his suitcase along with the passwords to his [...]
My latest for Foreign Policy Transitions. It's the abridged version of a 5-page article full of profanity. The intractability of the problem in Egypt is caused by the presence of three, not two, parties to [...]
Crossposted at Foreign Policy Transitions. In brief: besides, as Jon Stewart says, "we don't care to know enough about countries we meddle in", Sudan has suffered for so long from such negative coverage that the [...]
Update: Someone translated this article into French for Slate Afrique: La Tunisie, nouveau modele Arabe? Summary: Tunisia is beginning to assert its leadership role in the Arab world, backed by its revolutionary credentials and buoyed [...]
Long story short: I voted. And I hated it. Crossposted at Foreign Policy Magazine: Transitions. A BITTER PRESIDENTIAL VOTE Yes, that's totally me. My hand is white now. I ticked the ballot, dropped it [...]
