We are continually told that Obama’s policy has been supportive of democracy and human rights, but this is not true at all… Continue reading
Open letter to President Obama by Bahieddin Hassan… Continue reading
2012 will likely be remembered as the year that Islamists made the greatest gains in their quest for a new caliphate in the region… Continue reading
What’s been happening in Egypt this week is as important as the revolution that overthrew the old regime almost two years ago… Continue reading
You have to hand it to the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
Many are the lessons to be learned between the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the current revolutions of the Arab world… Continue reading
While one can certainly sympathize with the idea of letting an elected parliament being allowed to take office… 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
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
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
At the time of the Bush administration… Continue reading
What we are seeing is a political Islamist tsunami… 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
Rania Rifaat is the ultimate secular-oriented, social media-using, Egyptian “Arab Spring” activist… Continue reading
Here’s how revolutions — at least ultimately undemocratic ones — work… Continue reading
Listening to President Barack Obama talk about the administration’s Libya policy is a strange experience… 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
What’s most scary in America today may be the financial deficit and it may be government policies, but for me the scariest thing is… 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
A lot of people may think that I’m too tough on President Barack Obama and the New York Times. Yet every day they do something that… Continue reading
There are 20 Muslim-majority political entities in the Middle East — counting the Gaza Strip and West Bank separately… Continue reading
Official release of President Obama’s Middle East and North Africa speech… Continue reading
President Obama’s latest paean to what he calls “the Muslim world,” delivered at the State Department today, was an exercise in whistling past the… Continue reading
Perhaps the most important policymaking development of the last month has been President Barack Obama’s increasingly visible loss of… Continue reading
Repeatedly we were told about the alleged absence of anti-Israel rhetoric and signs in Tahrir square during the revolution. I don’t think it was true… Continue reading
The Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement achieved in Cairo last week was enthusiastically supported by Iran… 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
The photos released of the fortified villa in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden died on Sunday night, show a… 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
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. God hath numbered thy kingdom, and brought it to an end. Thou art weighed in the balances… Continue reading
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