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
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading
A member of the ultra-conservative al-Gamaa al-Islamiya group filed a legal complaint against… Continue reading
Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… 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
A French junior minister said in an interview published Saturday there was no such thing as moderate Islam… Continue reading
Only days before parliamentary elections, Egypt is in a huge crisis whose outcome will determine the future of almost… Continue reading
The riots in Cairo and other Egyptian cities do not count as the country’s second revolution this year… Continue reading
What we are seeing is a political Islamist tsunami… Continue reading
What clearer sign that Egypt is turning rabidly Islamist than the fact that hardly a few weeks go by without a church being destroyed… Continue reading
The September 12-16 tour of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya has occasioned the question what role… Continue reading
How is Egypt’s revolution different from a real democratic revolution, as in Eastern Europe… Continue reading
Fifteen “liberal” groups have formed The Egyptian Bloc to contest the parliament elections that might be held in November… Continue reading
Asmaa Mahfouz, the April 6 Youth Movement leader who said she began the Egyptian revolution with a tweet… Continue reading
A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the… Continue reading
Rania Rifaat is the ultimate secular-oriented, social media-using, Egyptian “Arab Spring” activist… Continue reading
As I predicted in early February, it is now clear that Egypt no longer tries seriously to stop weapons and terrorists and money from flowing into… Continue reading
As I always say, the most important stories about the Middle East are right there on the surface but are nonetheless neglected… Continue reading
Naguib Sawiris is an Egyptian business tycoon. He’s also the founder of the new, liberal Free Egyptians Party. He also tweets and… Continue reading
Mubarak is gone, but the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt will not lead to an ‘Arab Summer’… Continue reading
In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, a london-based Arabic newspaper, Islamic thinker and former chairman of Al-Azhar Fatwa Commission… Continue reading
In September, the leaves will start falling off the trees in the West. And so will their policies toward the Middle East… Continue reading
After the Egyptian Revolution, this is what the Copts in Egypt get… Continue reading
Prediction: In September, President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy blows up in his (and our) face(s)… Continue reading
Against the background of the fall of the autocratic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, the massive demonstrations in Yemen, Syria and Bahrain… Continue reading
A narrative has emerged to explain the varied responses of the Turkish government, led by the Justice and Development Party, or… Continue reading
Gas flames shooting 65 feet high signal the birth of a new Middle East. That pillar of fire, unlike the Biblical one, indicates that Egyptians… Continue reading
One of my readers points out that last February I mockingly quoted the New York Times’ assurances that everything would be all right… Continue reading
This is fascinating for a totally unexpected reason. It illustrates the law of unintended consequences, which is perhaps the single most… Continue reading
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. Thou art weighed in the balances… Continue reading
The group that began the Egyptian revolution had just two important priorities before setting to overthrow the Mubarak regime… Continue reading
Now that the New York Times tells us that the Muslim Brotherhood is really strong, organized, widely supported by the army, and capable of taking… Continue reading
Nowadays, Western officials and journalists seem to think nowadays that if you are a Middle East dictator and people start demonstrating… Continue reading
The world’s eyes have been focused on Egypt’s dramatic revolution. Yet incredibly, the media, government intelligence agencies, and… Continue reading
In his New York Times op-ed back in February, Muslim Brotherhood agent — disguised as sophisticated academic — Tariq Ramadan wrote… Continue reading
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