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
Al Jazeera goes undercover in Syria
Al Jazeera has become the essential media; even US networks that demonize it rely on its video feed
Why is it so hard to get word out of Syria?
Homs is bad enough but what is happening right now in Aleppo, in Suweida, in Deir ez-Zur?
Did Yemen just have a revolution?
Ali Abdullah Saleh is out at last but it looks like the Saleh regime remains
Caught in the middle of a firefight in Syria
A terrifyingly close view of what it means to fight an irregular war in the middle of a city
Ghost of Judith Miller returns to the NY Times
In the form of Ronen Bergman, whose cover story on Israel attacking Iran reads as propaganda
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
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
Hitch 1949-2011
Christopher Hitchens wrote like a polymath on a bender and his bombast was a pure reading pleasure
The official end of the Iraq debacle
A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day
Mapping the invisible city of Beirut
How a city fed up with thinking about war knows where the next frontlines will be
Back flips off the destroyed infrastructure in Gaza
Bringing the daredevil leaps of parkour to the bombed-out buildings of the Gaza Strip
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
What is going on with the Arab League?
They actually did something. Sanctions on Syria won’t work, but it’s a miracle all the same
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
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