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Dispatches From Cairo: Blood, Money and Revolution
Feb 23, 2012 As American NGO employees await trial, propagandists beat the drums of public suspicion and the military maneuvers to preserve U.S. aid.
Dispatches From Cairo: Game of Death
Feb 6, 2012 Oh, Egypt Oh, Arab Spring Another tailspin into the worst of expectations and reactions leaves us in a gray confusion of deception and distrust Now, there is gore on stadium seats Another tailspin into the worst of expectations and reactions.
Dispatches From Cairo: Revolution One Year Later
Jan 31, 2012 The celebration brought hundreds of thousands from all walks of life to Tahrir Square. We left with a feeling of disappointment.
Dispatches From Cairo: Raising Cane Against the ‘Morality Police’
Jan 18, 2012 Some Egyptian women have an answer for vigilantes armed with walking sticks: welts and words that are far from submissive.
Dispatches From Cairo: Egypt’s War on NGOs
Dec 31, 2011 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.With a raised fist, 2011 staggers bleeding and shouting to a close in Egypt.
Dispatches From Cairo: The Worst So Far
Dec 20, 2011 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.Much of the spirit of Tahrir Square has now been destroyed, ripped apart by soldiers swarming like enraged red ants.
Dispatches From Cairo: Return of the Revolution
Nov 23, 2011 In the surreal dawn of Tahrir Square the sun is purple-gray through the mist of tear gas, a building a block away is burning, the black carcass of an overturned truck smolders as a few people hover.In the surreal dawn of Tahrir Square the sun is purple-gray through the mist of tear gas.
Dispatches From Cairo: Feast of Sacrifice
Nov 10, 2011 The streets of Egypt ran with rivers of blood Sunday. It was the blood of sacrifice and not the blood of slaughtered humans this time.
Dispatches From Cairo: Torture in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Oct 30, 2011 Essam Atta died Thursday at Qasr El-Eini hospital in Cairo after prison guards allegedly tortured him by sodomization.
Dispatches From Cairo: Egypt’s Black Sunday
Oct 12, 2011 How can the people who made this revolution of unity have been so betrayed?