Mubarak the undead
Mubarak, Sharon, Arafat: there are new actors on the stage now and the old men have been forgotten
Mubarak dead. Revolution critical.
The regime has already demonstrated it can survive without Mubarak
What made Khaled Saeed a symbol?
All humans are imperfect but imperfect symbols don’t work: they get vilified for political purposes
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
Mubarak gets life in prison, Egypt gets nothing
Mubarak earned the sentence a hundred times over but it does not feel like justice was done
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
On Egypt’s first (sort of) free and fair presidential election
For the first time ever in Egypt, no one knows in advance who will win the presidency
Kony2012, the final indignity
What if you throw a party for one hundred million people and no one comes?
Did Gaddafi give Sarkozy 50m euros?
France’s dealings in Africa have often been sordid but Libya had seemed a break from this tradition
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
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
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
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
Seif al-Islam captured in the Sahara
Last of the Gaddafi clan was found in the Libyan desert near Ubari, which I visited in 2004
Dreamy visions of Gaddafi at the London Review of Books
Hugh Roberts slams NATO for not negotiating with a man who vowed to fight to the last drop of blood
Peter Schjeldahl wanders blind through the Met’s new Islamic wing
He sees only difference where he ought to be able to see centuries of cultural exchange
On the Overblown Islamist Threat
Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists