
Reading ‘How Democracy Became Halal’ op-ed in the Times
What a former CIA Middle East specialist gets wrong in his Times op-ed about the Egypt protests

The Green Man Ferro China bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994
A bitter aperitif from 1990s Cairo with an odd name and undrinkable contents

Where the Egypt revolution began
Egypt’s current demonstrations build on years of work by civil society groups

Shepard Smith’s moment of moral clarity about the Egypt protests
Finally, the American media abandons the pretense that the pro-Mubarak gangs might be spontaneous

La Baalbanaise arak bottle: Cairo, Egypt, 1994
Conjuring up neither the decadence of Baalbek nor the panache of the Lebanese

Why downtown Cairo has been the symbolic center of protest since the 1950s
Downtown Cairo burned on 26 January 1952; exactly 59 years later, it is the center of protest again

Portrait of Saad Zaghloul, leader of Egypt’s 1919 revolution
The tattered portrait of the man who led the Egyptian revolution of 1919

What makes Egypt beautiful
This exceptionally moving interview reveals what is at stake for the protesters in Egypt

Chabrawichi 555 cologne: Cairo, Egypt, 1998
An Egyptian cologne that in enclosed spaces tends to linger almost in perpetuity