It’s once again time for that exciting game of Spin the Polls by the Pew Foundation. Here are the rules… Continue reading
Their plans entail sending terrorists across the Egyptian Sinai border for attacks on Israelis to generate Israeli military incursions into Egyptian territory in hot pursuit of the perpetrators… Continue reading
Egypt will hold its presidential election May 23-24 with a possible run-off on June 16-17. It is impossible at this point to predict what’s going to happen but I can make a good guess… Continue reading
After his release from prison in March 2011, the Deputy Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al-Shater was reportedly tasked by the Brotherhood’s Guidance Council to perform a comprehensive review… Continue reading
Following the uprisings in the Arab world and since the overthrow of the Mubarak regime, the status of the Muslim Brotherhood has risen significantly both in Egypt and with the international community… Continue reading
A year ago we were told that Egypt was going to become a moderate democratic state ruled by hip Facebook kids. Now Egypt is going to become a moderate Islamist republic ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
Those who are, or will soon be, governing Egypt view themselves as being at war with Israel for all practical purposes… Continue reading
As the high hopes for a brave new Middle East fade rapidly, Western policymakers must recognize that promoting market economics and its inevitable cultural changes are far more critical to the region’s well-being than encouraging free elections or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict… Continue reading
Registering to run for president of Egypt will begin March 10. The military moved it up from April 15 to show that it is handing over power to the civilians… Continue reading
2012 appears to be unfolding as the “year of dhimmitude” for Egypt’s Christians… Continue reading
South Sudan’s friendly relationship with Israel will not pose any threat to Egypt… Continue reading
Since we can’t get good coverage of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the Western media, it’s necessary to turn to the Islamists’ intended victims — Arab liberals — to get a better picture… Continue reading
The Middle East is so strange in Western terms, so different, and having its own unique history and institutions that unless you are really aware of those differences please pick something else to be an expert on… Continue reading
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading
We’re starting to get a good picture of what the lower house of Egypt’s parliament will be like… Continue reading
The political history of the modern Middle East can easily be divided into three eras… Continue reading
It is truly astonishing how, it often seems, how Western media coverage must blame Israel for everything that “goes wrong” in the Middle East… Continue reading
In a time when Western intellectuals, politicians, and journalists are trying to explain that the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a radical Islamist group… Continue reading
What if a democratically elected government decides to enforce such a system in a law legally passed by a democratically elected government? I guess that’s just democracy in action… Continue reading
Many in the West have so acted toward Egypt during the last year… Continue reading
A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading
The Obama Administration, as I’ve written for the last year, is favoring radical Islamist forces… Continue reading
In the course of the present unrest across the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading
A 27-year-old American-Israeli law school student decides he’s going to go to Egypt… Continue reading
Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading
Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group which rules the Gaza Strip and… Continue reading
This study examines the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other Arab countries in the wake of the past year’s regional uprisings… Continue reading
At the end of 2011 is anyone in the Arabic-speaking world better off as a result of the upheavals of the Arab Spring… Continue reading
The “Arab Spring” is the name given to the tumultuous political events of 2011… Continue reading
Do policymakers, and “experts” care what happens in the Middle East? War? Bloodshed? Repression… Continue reading
Iranian speculations on Egypt’s Islamists: Shi’ite-style revolutionaries or Turkish-style democrats?
There have been various speculations in Iranian press on the significance of the Islamists’ victory and the nature of the Islamist faction in Egypt… Continue reading
It’s time for the Fifth Internationale, that of the Muslim Brotherhoods… Continue reading
Let’s figure out what the voting in Egypt means in concrete terms… Continue reading
Under President Obama, the US government has become hostile to Israel’s national rights and strategic imperatives… Continue reading
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