The ‘inheritance project’ and Mubarak’s last hours
The film hindi going on behind the scenes during the last days of Egypt’s First Family
The Fantastic Four of the Republican race
A robot, a kook, and two flawed moralizing Catholics is really the best that the GOP can offer us?
When Memphis cared
When Martin Luther King was killed, John T. Fisher showed that not only blacks in Memphis cared
A vial of Saharan sand from the Acacus region in Libya
The Acacus felt so remote that, now, only something as material as sand confirms I was really there
Photographer Martin Klimas and the color of sound
Marrying Abstract Expressionism to every heavy metal kid’s discovery that speakers produce air waves
Finally, propaganda I can believe in
The UK Foreign Office makes a stout defense of multiculturalism, just in time for the Olympics
Typography and world conquest
This exhibition shows the moment colonial expansion brought the Gutenberg revolution to the world
The Cincinnati Daguerreotypes of 1848
Exploring in high detail an America that was newly industrializing and soon to war with itself
Why Mubarak should not be hanged
The old man’s secrets about his odious regime are worth more to Egypt than vengeance
Expect a lot of Republican talk about the apocalypse
As Richard Nixon understood, anger and resentment are the ties that bind American conservatism
The incoherence of the Republican battle in Iowa
GOP social and economic policies are incoherent and none of the candidates knows how to hide that
The Egyptian police beat protesters senseless
The video is hard to watch but it shows why freedom in Egypt has not yet been won
Goodbye, Earthlings
Kim Jong-il departs for some distant galaxy of coiffed hairdos and Politburo-issue safari suits
Hitch 1949-2011
Christopher Hitchens wrote like a polymath on a bender and his bombast was a pure reading pleasure
The official end of the Iraq debacle
A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day
Paula Scher on the spirit of typeface
PBS has an evangelical video for those who still look through type without noticing it
Mapping the invisible city of Beirut
How a city fed up with thinking about war knows where the next frontlines will be
Fashion collective threeASFOUR brings peace to the Middle East
Hardly: Muslim – Jewish cultural ‘togetherness’ is the easy part
Back flips off the destroyed infrastructure in Gaza
Bringing the daredevil leaps of parkour to the bombed-out buildings of the Gaza Strip
Sharia El Aziz Osman street sign, Cairo, Egypt
I used to live on this street in Zamalek and have now given it to the protagonist in my novel
What to make of the elections in Egypt?
Millions turned out, but will the electoral process prove worthy of the hopes invested in it?
Egypt votes today, but it’s a mess
The elections were badly organized, the military undermined them, but turnout has been significant
What is going on with the Arab League?
They actually did something. Sanctions on Syria won’t work, but it’s a miracle all the same