Egypt
جمهورية مصر العربية
War Drums Beat on the Nile
Gwynne Dyer, Japan Times
What Tocqueville Would Tell Muslim Brothers
Joseph Loconte, HuffPo
Egypt's Criminal Suppression of NGOs
Heba Morayef, Foreign Policy
Egyptian Brotherhood's Assault on the Arts
Vivian Salama, The Atlantic
Egypt's Crisis of Legitimacy
Marina Ottaway, The National Interest
Without that water, the only options for Egypt are beggaring itself with massive food imports (until the foreign exchange runs out), or famine. Unless, of course, it decides on war...(full article)
"In the United States, they associate for the goals of public security, of commerce and industry, of morality and religion," Tocqueville wrote in "Democracy in America.""There is n...(full article)
On June 4, an Egyptian criminal court sentenced 43 people to prison on charges of membership in illegal organizations. It was a familiar scenario for anyone who worked on human rig...(full article)
As the curtains swept open on the stage of Cairo's historic Opera House in late May, spectators held their breath waiting to be regaled by Giuseppe Verdi's classic Aida, whic...(full article)
Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) has taken another step toward annulling the outcome of the elections that followed the 2011 uprising. Earlier this week, it declare...(full article)
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