Ten years gone
On the street, watching the World Trade Center fall and our nation misinterpret why it happened
Film of a garden party in Alexandria, Egypt c1920s
A lifestyle now lost captured on a film that cannot be watched
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
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
Osama bin Laden killed after 3,519 days of freedom
Osama bin Laden is dead but it is the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions that are killing Al Qaeda
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 the Egyptian military
In the revolution, Egyptian reverence for the military shamed them into not opening fire. Now what happens?
The truth about travel guidebooks
They are no joy to write and they don’t change as much as you think
1957: Israelis protest UN demand to withdraw from the Sinai
In a newsreel after Israel’s 1956 invasion of Egypt, Israelis rally in Tel Aviv against UN demands to withdraw from the Sinai
1956: Egypt claims Suez, a move called the biggest threat to world peace
A 1956 newsreel announcing that Egypt’s president Nasser has nationalized the Suez Canal, a move it calls the biggest threat to world peace
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
1956: Gaza fighting, space cadet elevators, and Grace Kelly
Making news in 1956: Gaza fighting, space cadet elevator operators, Grace Kelly getting married.
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?
Reading Hani Shukrallah on what Egypt does now
The political revolution in Egypt needs a legal revolution equal to its values and moral force
Triumph at last in Midan at-Tahrir
These 18 days of protests constitute the most beautiful political act I have ever witnessed
