Dispatches From Cairo: Bragging About Gang Rape

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Feb 12, 2013 He couldn't have been more than 19 His clothes were cheap and his sparse yet unshaven facial hair was indistinguishable from the dirt on his cheeks He was with another kid on the other side of a kiosk and couldn't see that I was listening. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: All Children Go to Heaven

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Nov 20, 2012 "Is this the work of a God-fearing people?" screamed our neighborhood imam over the loudspeakers during Friday's passionate sermon. The innate hostility in regard to Israel tilts toward hatred.Egyptians are aware of their country's important role in this conflict, and are watching President Mohamed Morsi's position closely. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Brother, Can You Spare a Breeze?

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Aug 7, 2012 Rolling blackouts turn up the heat and turn off the lights; on the political front, Morsi feels heat of a different sort. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Clinton’s Clumsy Visit

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Jul 19, 2012 The top U.S. diplomat wooed Egypt's new government but wowed very few among a proud people determined to find their own way as a democracy. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: New President, New Hope

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Jun 29, 2012 As the days pass, Egyptians seem more and more relaxed, and there is an emerging hope that displays itself in voices less strident, faces less stressed, more smiling, despite the stifling heat. Perhaps the storms of the Arab Spring have finished and now will come the flowering. Voices are less strident, faces less stressed, more smiling, despite the stifling heat. Perhaps the storms of the Arab Spring have finished. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Testing Democracy

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig May 22, 2012 Here in Cairo every conversation turns to this week's presidential election, hopefully the first true democratic election in the country's history. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Sand and Political Excitement Fill the Air as Election Nears

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Apr 21, 2012 One month before Egypt's presidential vote, 100,000 or more Islamists and liberals of all parties packed Tahrir Square to join in support of Egypt's revolution. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Fuel for the Fire

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Apr 2, 2012 Those who can have chosen to selectively forget the worst of recent memories, but most sense a new wave of conflict, gathering at a distance and surging toward them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Blood, Money and Revolution

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Feast of Sacrifice

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig 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. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Egypt’s Black Sunday

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Oct 12, 2011 How can the people who made this revolution of unity have been so betrayed? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Flagman and ‘Our Martyrs in Sinai’

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Aug 23, 2011 Yes, Flagman -- surely you've heard of the Egyptian superhero who scaled the 21 floors of the Israeli Embassy in the predawn hours Sunday. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )