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Abdallah Schleifer
Abdallah Schleifer

Abdallah Schleifer is a veteran American journalist covering the Middle East and distinguished visiting professor of political mass media at Future University in Egypt. He is also professor emeritus at the American University in Cairo where he founded as served as first director of the Kamal Adham Center for TV and Digital Journalism. He is chief editor of the annual publication The Muslim 500; a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA) and at the Royal Aal al Bayt Academy for Islamic Thought (Jordan.) Schleifer has served as Al Arabiya Washington D.C. bureau chief; NBC News Cairo bureau chief; Middle East correspondent for Jeune Afrique; as special correspondent (stringer) , New York Times and managing editor of the Jerusalem Star/Palestine News in then Jordanian Arab Jerusalem.

Egypt’s skewed cabinet re-shuffle

The more things change these days in Cairo, the more they stay the same. A cabinet reshuffle that has been “imminent” for more than a few weeks, has come and gone and nothing has really...

 Amira Hass; a champion of justice

I live in Cairo but I long for Jerusalem. My first job in the Middle East as a young American journalist ,who stumbled upon the Old City of Jerusalem almost by accident enroute from Algiers via Amman...

 Political infighting after Egypt’s ‘revolution’

This past week has been quite confusing. On one hand, young supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) demonstrated outside the Supreme Court calling for a purge of the Mubarak-appointed judiciary....

 Why Egypt’s Mubarak was smiling

When Hosni Mubarak was wheeled into court last week he was a different man from the one brought to court from a military hospital nearly a year ago. At that time, Mubarak lay flat on his back, hands...

 The problems of Islamist politics in Egypt

Over the past week there have been attacks of varied intensity, curious in their timing, against what one might describe as the respective citadels of traditional Islam and traditional Christianity...

 Egypt’s media quagmire worsens

Joel Simon is the executive director of the independent, non-profit, New York- based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which takes its name quite zealously. Wherever in the world journalists are...

 Long lines and frustration in Egypt

 One of the features of Post-Tahrir Cairo are long lines, most dramatically the long lines of large lorries and mini buses that are stretched out periodically, and increasingly in recent months,...

 The Spectre haunting Egypt

We are overwhelmed by the latest breaking story, and this past week there have been an unnerving number of them. But a sense of an intensifying crisis – until now a largely ignored economic as...