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
Typography and world conquest
This exhibition shows the moment colonial expansion brought the Gutenberg revolution to the world
Why Mubarak should not be hanged
The old man’s secrets about his odious regime are worth more to Egypt than vengeance
The Egyptian police beat protesters senseless
The video is hard to watch but it shows why freedom in Egypt has not yet been won
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
The truth revealed, at last, in Tahrir Square
The military was always an obstacle to democracy. Now everyone can see that
Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs
But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials
On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
Where tourists and locals go in Cairo
Genius mash-up map uses Flickr photos to reveal insiders’ favorite areas in cities around the world
Into the darkness of the New York Times comments section
The central challenge for a superpower: strong views, little knowledge, limitless power to intervene
Newsreel: ’67 War and party balloons for Red China
Newsreels declare: US neutral in ’67 War in the Middle East and Red China fears party balloons
Mubarak on trial: should the past be prosecuted?
Forgetting the past is unacceptable, but so too is shelving it through superficial justice
On Obama’s second big Middle East speech
There has been a revolution in the Arab world but, thus far, no revolution in American thinking
An evocative group portrait at a cafe in Egypt, 1934
A moment captured during an outing to Roda island in the 1930s
My grandfather’s sketch of the home he’d found in Cairo in 1956
Part of an effort to entice his family to join him in Egypt in the aftermath of the 1956 war
Reading the Times on the architectural symbolism of Cairo
Much right and a few key things wrong about Tahrir Square in Cairo, the center of the revolution
The truth about travel guidebooks
They are no joy to write and they don’t change as much as you think
Reading the New Yorker on Islam and economic growth
The middle class everywhere competes on skills; in Egypt connections matter most. That’s the problem
Prospects for social justice and economic reform in Egypt
Why social justice in Egypt demands more economic reform — true reform, this time — not less
From Egypt with love
If you’ve spent time in Egypt, the human warmth of this video will be familiar; if you haven’t, go
The Muslim Brotherhood had a monopoly. Can they compete?
Mubarak gave the Muslim Brotherhood an unnatural monopoly on opposition. Can they compete?