I had asked Michael, who I have worked with for years, to pick me up from the airport because of increasing attacks on Western journalists in Cairo. He took the scene in stride as we stalled and stopped in traffic, pointing out the remains of torched cars and anti-Brotherhood graffiti along our route. “Not all of us are shooting each other,” he told me when I asked if he was nervous about the situation. He was completely unfazed by the week’s carnage and said the Muslim Brotherhood had asked for it by continuing the sit-ins it had been holding since Morsi was removed in a coup on July 3. “They are terrorists,” he said, plain and simple.
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