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
The scene in liberated Benghazi in eastern Libya
The first detailed images out of Libya show thousands in Benghazi celebrating Gaddafi’s demise
The surreal experience of visiting Libya
With a Libyan human rights activist, racing through the Tripoli medina alleys to avoid eavesdroppers
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
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
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
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
Reading the Atlantic on Facebook in Tunisia
It is the apolitical nature of Facebook that makes it useful to political activists
What the Tunisia revolution looked like
Big, powerful images of the revolution in Tunisia from the Boston Globe’s site ‘The Big Picture’
Reading Slate on the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia
In Tunisia it may be Jasmine but in Lebanon it wasn’t really Cedar