|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
By David Sirota
$11.16
28.99
$19
|
|
|
|
.jpg)
AP/Maya Alleruzzo, File
|
By Juan Cole — The announcement by the nation’s leftists and secularists that they will not contest this spring’s elections for the lower house of parliament is a needless disaster that could plunge Egypt into years of unrest.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
READ MORE 
|
.jpg)
|
By Chris Hedges — Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, with power in their grasp, are crushing those who stand in the way of single-party rule, and the government’s weapon of choice is the poor.
Posted on Dec 16, 2012
READ MORE
|
AP/ David Karp
|
By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — The new president has kept only five of his 64 promises. From his campaign slogan of “Freedom, bread and justice,” only bread has been delivered so far. Egyptians gather in Tahrir Square to express their frustration.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
READ MORE
|
AP/Shaam News Network
|
By Reese Erlich — Armed Kurds could be a powerful force in the Syrian uprising, but their participation is anything but simple.
Posted on Aug 28, 2012
READ MORE
|
Photo by Mahmoud Hassinno
|
By Reese Erlich — During the early days, religious and nonreligious Syrians came together to call for reform. But as fighting intensified, a range of Islamist groups gained influence.
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
READ MORE
|
|
A look at the day’s political happenings, including how Romney could come to the aid of so-called banksters, and John Boehner gives his VP pick.
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
READ MORE 
|
AP/Pete Muller
|
By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — Results showed a clear majority for Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, over regime candidate Ahmed Shafiq. But watch out for flames shooting from the military dragon.
Posted on Jun 18, 2012
READ MORE
|
AP/Amr Nabil
|
Mohamed Morsi is the first freely elected president of Egypt, according to his party, the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Islamist candidate, who beat out the man anointed by former dictator Hosni Mubarak in a runoff election Monday, may have few powers to exercise.
Posted on Jun 17, 2012
READ MORE
|
Abode of Chaos (CC BY 2.0)
|
The Muslim Brotherhood’s zeal for political power bears responsibility for the likelihood that a Mubarak-era holdover will win the Egyptian presidency, and the revolutionary youth defanged themselves by refusing to establish political representation, prominent dissident Mohamed ElBaradei told The Guardian.
Posted on Jun 15, 2012
READ MORE
|
khalid Albaih (CC BY 2.0)
|
The official results of the Egyptian election won’t be known until Tuesday, but the outlook points to a strong showing by Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi, the possibility of which has scared some Egyptians into voicing support for a candidate from Mubarak’s administration.
Posted on May 25, 2012
READ MORE
|
bbc.co.uk
|
Of all the people to step in and take the still-revolutionizing nation of Egypt to another level in its post-Arab Spring era, former President Hosni Mubarak’s intelligence chief Omar Suleiman probably isn’t the man for the job.
|
|
Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
|
AP / Amr Nabil
|
By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — The celebration brought hundreds of thousands from all walks of life to Tahrir Square. We left with a feeling of disappointment.
|
Wikipedia
|
Egypt’s parliamentary election results are in. Candidates from Islamist parties—the Freedom and Justice and Al-Nour—took two-thirds of the 478 seats, which means they will have a large say in determining the country’s new constitution. Revolutionary groups led by those who played a pivotal role in toppling Hosni Mubarak took only seven seats.
|
Utenriksdept (CC-BY)
|
Mohamed ElBaradei, the Egyptian reform leader, dropped out of the presidential race on Saturday, rebuking the military for failing to engender social conditions in which Egyptian democracy could be possible.
|
AP / Ahmed Ali
|
By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — National law gives the executive authorities overly broad discretion to forbid groups to do anything that authorities might see as “threatening national unity” or “violating public order or morals,” vague terminology that lays the law open to abuse and has served as a basis for the denial of registration to some NGOs.
|
Maggie Osama (CC-BY)
|
A brutal and resilient junta. The myth of prevailing revolutionary secularism. An exhausted liberal class that risks capitulation and oblivion. In this uncommonly thoughtful reflection published at The New Inquiry, journalist Matt Pearce shines light on the flies in the ointment of the Egyptian uprising one year after its inception.
|
AP / Nasser Nasser
|
By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — Much of the beauty of the spirit of Tahrir Square has now been destroyed, ripped apart by soldiers swarming like enraged red ants to attack protesters impotently throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
|
Wikimedia Commons / Marek Kocjan (CC-BY-SA)
|
Given this year’s political turmoil in Egypt, it’s not surprising that, as interim leader Kamal el-Ganzouri tearfully lamented at a news conference Sunday, tourism in the North African nation has taken a big hit.
Posted on Dec 12, 2011
READ MORE
|
AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill
|
Responding to days of protest and turmoil, once again centered in the mother lode of the Arab Spring, Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Egypt’s ruling military council made an attempt to placate pressure groups by pledging to transfer power to the Egyptian people by June. (more)
|
AP / Amr Nabil
|
By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — “No [political] parties, no Muslim Brotherhood! The Egyptian people are in the square! La ahzab, la Ikhwan! Al-Sha’b al-Misri fi al-Maydan!” “The blood of the martyrs won’t be wasted,” the crowds chanted.
|
AP / Amr Nabil
|
By Lauren Unger-Geoffroy — This morning before dawn, the tents and blockades were up: The people had been gathering since the previous night, preparing for a long stay.
|
|
By Robert Fisk — History comes full circle in Syria. In February 1982, President Hafez al-Assad’s army stormed into the ancient cities to end an Islamist uprising.
|
Wikipedia
|
The Muslim Brotherhood, seen by many as Egypt’s most organized political movement following Mubarak’s ouster, announced Saturday it plans to contest up to half of the country’s parliamentary seats in elections this September. (more)
|
AP / Ahmed Ali
|
In results released Sunday evening, 77 percent of Egyptian voters have endorsed amendments to their country’s constitution that will pave the way for parliamentary elections, which the military junta said will be held in June.
|
Flickr / Collapse The Light (CC-BY)
|
Is NPR the next Acorn? The public radio powerhouse is apparently the latest target of conservative rabble-rousers such as James O’Keefe, the undercover right-winger whose Acorn sting spelled major trouble for that institution, and Wednesday, NPR’s CEO Vivian Schiller took the fall.
|
AP / Amr Nabil
|
By Juan Cole — The hysteria in American media about Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is not only ignorant and demagogic, it is hypocritical.
|
White House / Samantha Appleton
|
Earlier in the day, President Barack Obama—even in the estimation of mainstream media outlets—had reveled in the historic moment that unfolded when the Egyptian “uprising” became a full-fledged revolution. Later Friday, the White House made ...
|
AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
|
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s latest bid to dial down the intensity of the protests against his regime aren’t deterring the opposition, as resistance groups mobilized to keep up their efforts Tuesday.
|
AP / Tara Todras-Whitehill
|
By Barry Lando — In attempting to persuade Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave the scene, Washington desperately wants to avoid further radicalization on the streets of Egypt and, above all, to ensure that the Egyptian army remains unscathed.
|
AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
|
What’s happening in the streets of Cairo and elsewhere around Egypt is likely to lead to substantial changes in that country that could well be contagious across the region.
|
|
By Eugene Robinson — The Obama administration has done a creditable job of gently edging Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak toward some sort of gilded exile. Now it’s time to push. Hard.
|
AP via YouTube
|
The recent Tunisian uprising has apparently had an effect on nearby Egyptians, as thousands took to the Internet and then to the streets of Cairo and around Egypt on Tuesday to demonstrate against President Hosni Mubarak’s long-standing government.
|
AP / Thibault Camus
|
By Juan Cole — Every state and movement in the Middle East is reading into the events in Tunisia its own anxieties and aspirations.
|
|
Despite the fact that only two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in the region, the top stories around the Middle East have been about the H1N1 threat—even to the point of edging out reports of violence in Iraq in the news lineup.
|
View the most popular tags overall?
|
|
Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
Newsletter 
Like Us
Follow Us
Get Our Feed
