Posts Tagged ‘politics’

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