Obama Hapless in Face of Egyptian Crackdown
By Matthew Rothschild, August 15, 2013 He’s slapping the military with one hand and paying it with the other.read more
View ArticleIs There Hope for Egypt?
By Joseph Mayton, August 16, 2013 Or does a civil war loom?read more
View ArticleMartyrdom and the Muslim Brotherhood
By Joseph Mayton, August 18, 2013 The Muslim Brotherhood “martyrs” are waiting for death and expecting it, and the military and police are obliging.read more
View ArticleO, Egypt! How Naïve Revolutionaries Blew It
By Uri Avnery, August 23, 2013 One slogan from Tahrir Square sounds particularly foolish now.read more
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know About the Egyptian Crisis
By Bill Fletcher Jr., August 24, 2013 One of the most striking features of the current Egyptian crisis has been the response by most of the US Left and progressives.read more
View ArticleEgypt Has Its Own Pinochet
By Roger Burbach, September 11, 2013 Pinochet and al-Sisi have more in common than a love of dark sunglasses.read more
View ArticleAt the Counterrevolution in Egypt
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous, September 2013 Issue The White House has declined to label the July 3 ouster of Morsi a coup, a move that would legally require it to cut off the $1.5 billion (mostly...
View ArticleEgypt Gets a Constitution, But a Long Road Lies Ahead
By Alessandra Bajec, Jan. 16, 2014 Despite the recent election, many questions on Egypt's future remain unanswered.read more
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Obama and Clinton Shelve Ideals on Egypt
By Matthew Rothschild, February 8, 2011 President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are again showing that they’re more concerned with maintaining an ally in Egypt, no matter how...
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Obama’s chance to earn his Peace Prize
By Kevin Alexander Gray, February 9, 2011 President Obama needs to stop being two-faced on Egypt.He pressed Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak to consider his legacy and “leave power in a way that would...
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Lessons of the Glorious Egyptian Revolution
By Matthew Rothschild, February 11, 2011 Wow, what an exciting day! It’s thrilling to be alive when history comes alive.Egypt is free. Mubarak has fled. The people have won.This is the most momentous...
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30 Years of Corruption, Torture, Come to an End in Egypt
By Joseph Mayton, February 12, 2011 It can officially be called a revolution now. After 18 days of demonstrations that saw millions of Egyptians take to the streets in demanding an end to 30 years of...
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Taking The Arab Freedom Movement Global Through Song
By Stephan Said, February 13, 2011 Revolution is spreading across the Arab world. But, today’s young Arab activists aren’t just concerned with national movements for regime change and equality in...
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We need a new foreign policy for Egypt — and the U.S.
By Ghada Hashem Talhami, February 15, 2011 Egypt’s popular triumph over the regime of Hosni Mubarak may alter Cairo’s foreign policy — and Washington’s — for the better.Since the Camp David accord of...
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Gene Sharp's Nonviolent Impact
By Amitabh Pal, February 17, 2011 The successful Egyptian uprising demonstrates the ability of good ideas to travel across the world. Protest organizers there took major inspiration from the work of...
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An Interview with Sharif Abdel Kouddous
By Matthew Rothschild, May 2011 issue Q: Tell me a little bit about your background.Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Well, I grew up in Cairo until I was eighteen years old, and then I moved to college in the...
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Democracy is on trial in Egypt
By Khaled A. Beydoun, September 19, 2011 There are two momentous trials going on in Egypt.One is of the former President Hosni Mubarak. The other is the trial that is taking place in the very locale...
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EGYPT: The Afterglow Has Faded
By Sharif Abdel Kouddous, in the December 2011 / January 2012 issue On the evening of October 10, a funeral procession of more than 20,000 people marched down Ramses Street, a main thoroughfare in...
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Anniversary of Egyptian Uprising Occasion for Cautious Optimism
By Amitabh Pal, January 27, 2012 On the first anniversary of the start of the Egyptian revolution, we need to let out a cheer.True, things in Egypt aren’t quite where they should be, but still the...
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Egypt needs to get full democracy one year after Mubarak overthrow
By Moustafa Bayoumi, February 11, 2012 The time for civilian rule in Egypt is now.One year into its amazing revolution, Egypt is still in crisis. Despite overthrowing Hosni Mubarak, their dictator of...
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Egyptians Renounce Authocracy
By Moustafa Bayoumi, December 8, 2012 The Egyptian revolution, begun on January 25 2011, remains unfinished. That became painfully clear on November 22, 2012, when the democratically elected Mohammed...
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Egypt’s Bassem Youssef Responds to Controversy
By Joseph Mayton, April 9, 2013 Bassem Youssef, dubbed the “Jon Stewart” of Egypt, is responding to the recent controversy over his satire by telling people to lighten up.Youssef told The Progressive...
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In Egypt, the People Have Spoken
By Joseph Mayton, July 2, 2013 When an estimated 33 million people took to the streets of Egypt on Sunday, violence was expected to erupt en masse.Instead of a day of frustration and anger, it quickly...
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Celebrating Egypt’s New Future
by Manar Ammar, July 5, 2013 "Congratulations, Egypt has returned to us," Egyptians cheered shortly after the country's armed forces overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood regime and ousted President...
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Dancing with the Devil in Egypt
By Matthew Rothschild, July 5, 2012 It’s been inspiring to see millions upon millions of Egyptians take to the streets to change their government.But put me down in the skeptic’s column.Because I...
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Skeptical on Egypt's Revolution
July 5, 2013 Follow Matthew Rothschild @mattrothschild on Twitter
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Why Wisconsin’s Morsi Is Still in Power
By Dominique Paul Noth, July 9, 2013 What do Wisconsin and Egypt have in common? Recent events have raised some provocative parallels about what is a settled government and what is an unsettled...
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Rising Violence and Falling Hopes in Egypt
By Manar Ammar, July 10, 2013 Since tens of millions of Egyptians took to the streets on June 30, raising red cards to President Mohamed Morsi and demanding he exit the political stage, the situation...
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