The late Omar Sharif in a magazine called Alive
I remember Omar Sharif best for a 1997 interview in a forgotten magazine in Cairo
The cultural destruction of war in the Middle East
My beloved Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo may not be a total loss but much is elsewhere
My favorite museum in Cairo damaged by a car bomb
Terror attack on Egyptian police HQ badly damages the Museum of Islamic Art, an overlooked marvel
Was the coup in Egypt even necessary?
Morsi might have been forced from power anyway, but the military short circuited that
Draft articles of impeachment for Morsi now
Even elected leaders can lose their legitimacy; Egypt needs a legal statement to that effect
Egypt Independent is strangled in its crib
Independent journalism is a bad business everywhere but in Egypt politics makes it worse
My twenty years in Egypt
My first trip to Cairo was in 1992. Here are some thoughts on how it has changed
On Egypt’s constitutional referendum
The Muslim Brotherhood has changed its political strategy, a loss for everyone
If you missed the Egyptian royal family…
A film made by the Egyptian royal family about a coup d’état that was lost for nearly sixty years
What an Omar Suleiman girl group would sound like
Mubarak’s Angel of Darkness would have yelped and wailed just like this
The embassy mobs and Obama’s ‘failure’ in the Middle East
Is Obama’s policy in the Middle East in ‘epic collapse’? Hardly. But serious people have doubts now
Latest in the battle over the Mohamed Mahmoud mural
The New York Times blog The Lede picks up the battle over street art in Cairo
The amazing mural on Mohamed Mahmoud that was just painted over
What a loss for Cairo, artistically as much as politically
In a first, a new dictionary of ancient Egyptian colloquial
The language was on the Rosetta Stone but the dictionary is only now being published
How the US is playing into the hands of the Salafiyeen
The US just told the Salafiyeen they have the power to affect aid talks. Big mistake
Tracking how the Egyptian government is doing
Before the revolution, Egypt had no politics. Now it does, and the small things matter
Pay no attention to these anti-American protests in Cairo
I was in Cairo 48 hours ago: there is no great wave of anti-Americanism right now
Mubarak dead. Revolution critical.
The regime has already demonstrated it can survive without Mubarak
Actually, in Egypt now it is Chirac vs Le Pen
Large parts of the political spectrum have no representation at all in the second round
In Egypt right now, it is practically Bush vs Gore
A Mohamed Morsy and Ahmed Shafiq runoff would crush those who believed in the revolution
The hidden sword behind the US-Egypt NGO debacle
The NGOs were operating illegally. The Egyptian regime likes it that way
Ahmed Basiony and the cost of revolution
The protesters in Tahrir Square preached non-violence, but the Mubarak regime did not
One year on in Egypt: Art, Politics and Power
The Egyptian revolution happened in the middle of my Egypt novel and I didn’t know what to do about it