Mubarak dead. Revolution critical.
The regime has already demonstrated it can survive without Mubarak
On the Egypt revolution and America’s War of 1812
A bad week in Egypt, but profound political change can take a very long time
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
The hidden sword behind the US-Egypt NGO debacle
The NGOs were operating illegally. The Egyptian regime likes it that way
Did the Renaissance invent individuality in portraiture?
Andrew Butterfield says yes; the Fayum portraits suggest no
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
Typography and world conquest
This exhibition shows the moment colonial expansion brought the Gutenberg revolution to the world
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
Video of the Egyptian army running over civilians with APCs
But the Egyptian army rules the country, so it is the protesters who face military trials
On the Overblown Islamist Threat
Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists
On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
My journals on September 11th, 2001
I still can’t believe how slowly I grasped the scale of what was happening that day