Wednesday's massacre of Ahly Club fans in Port Said's football stadium was the latest in a tragic crescendo for young Egyptians who continue to clash heavily with Egypt's Central Security Forces.
And though the clashes have been continually analyzed (...)
The representation of the life story of al-Hassan and al-Hussein, Prophet Mohamed's grandsons and sons of his cousin and son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Taleb, in a daily TV series during Ramadan has been a topic of dispute. Being the descendants of Ali, (...)
The meteoric rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis in Egyptian politics has drawn attention, rather unfairly, away from another Islamist group that surpasses all others in its capacity for ideological revision and organizational innovation. (...)
Many argue that Egyptian Islamism has lagged behind its counterparts in Morocco, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen and other relatively “peripheral” Arab countries, where Islamist movements have been marked by organizational and ideological innovation. While (...)
A Salafi fear industry has developed in the Egyptian media, especially after the group's sudden emergence in the aftermath of the revolution — to the shock of many secular Egyptian elites. There are indeed legitimate fears about the religious (...)
The 25 January Egyptian uprising was a bombshell that undid several cliches about Middle East politics. On top of the list is the “autocracy vs. Islamic obscurantism” duality that has long characterized political discourse about countries like (...)
