In a short period of time, the group calling itself the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL or ISIS) evolved from an obscurity to acontinent-traversing, territory-holding, “tax”-collecting, oil-selling, antiquities-trading, bureaucratic (...)
In the next few days, Egypt will have both a new president and the same old problems. Among them, a sub-optimal level of investment and associated governance deficiencies that have bred and been nurtured by the country's poor economic (...)
The world's most reported river is making the news again. Egypt and Ethiopia are locked in a high-stakes dispute over the latter's construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Situated on Ethiopia's Blue Nile (the source of 85 per (...)
On airwaves and news pages, judgments have been swift, numerous, and too focused on definitions. The Merriam Webster online dictionaryreportedthat searches for “coup d'état" spiked on July 4 and remained high that week, in response to coverage of (...)
In the lead up to President Morsi's 26 June speech, his assistant for political affairs, Pakinam El-Sharkawy,saidthe "speech will offer a balance sheet" of his first year in office. With few assets to report and too many liabilities to admit, the (...)
Picture this. An “Islamist” politician is making his way through Cairo's bustling streets. The cacophonous sounds of the city's notorious traffic compete with a muezzin's call to prayer. Polluted air fills his chest. With each step, his shoes (...)
Fewer than six months into his presidency, PresidentMorsi has taken swift and successive steps to consolidate his power at the expense of Egypt's executive, legislative, and judicial institutions and military neutrality. His controversial and now (...)
To the victors go the spoils of war and the results of elections, but what happens to popular uprisings, asks Hdeel Abdelhady*
In the aftermath of Egypt's political earthquake, the army, interim civilian government, political parties, and other (...)
The Egyptian people are rightfully demanding that former regime officials responsible for corruption, violence against protesters, and other crimes and malfeasance be held legally accountable. Egypt's prosecutor general has responded, (...)