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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 justiceI 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 smilingWhen 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 EgyptOver 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 worsensJoel 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 EgyptOne 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 EgyptWe 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......