Visiting Leila Menchari’s garden in Tunisia
An Hermès exhibit to honor Leila Menchari and my journey to her beloved garden in Tunisia
The late Omar Sharif in a magazine called Alive
I remember Omar Sharif best for a 1997 interview in a forgotten magazine in Cairo
The cultural destruction of war in the Middle East
My beloved Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo may not be a total loss but much is elsewhere
The ancient theater in Sabratha, Libya
Anarchy in post-Gaddafi Libya sends me into storage to find photos I took on my trip there in 2004
How I got to Libya one month after the embargo was lifted
Ten years ago the US lifted its embargo on Libya. I landed a month later. It was complicated
My favorite museum in Cairo damaged by a car bomb
Terror attack on Egyptian police HQ badly damages the Museum of Islamic Art, an overlooked marvel
98.1% of Egyptians vote for the Sisi constitution
By comparison, Mubarak only claimed 88.6% of Egyptians voted for him in his last election in 2005
Two constitutions, one triumph
Tunisia got it right with their new constitution while Egypt reverted to old authoritarian habits
Interview with History by Oriana Fallaci, 1976
Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci lost the plot at the end but she was a wonder in her prime
Was the coup in Egypt even necessary?
Morsi might have been forced from power anyway, but the military short circuited that
Draft articles of impeachment for Morsi now
Even elected leaders can lose their legitimacy; Egypt needs a legal statement to that effect
My twenty years in Egypt
My first trip to Cairo was in 1992. Here are some thoughts on how it has changed
Rendition and torture: how it happened
Everyone knows by now that the US and UK tortured captives. That should still shock us
If you missed the Egyptian royal family…
A film made by the Egyptian royal family about a coup d’état that was lost for nearly sixty years
The embassy mobs and Obama’s ‘failure’ in the Middle East
Is Obama’s policy in the Middle East in ‘epic collapse’? Hardly. But serious people have doubts now
Latest in the battle over the Mohamed Mahmoud mural
The New York Times blog The Lede picks up the battle over street art in Cairo
The amazing mural on Mohamed Mahmoud that was just painted over
What a loss for Cairo, artistically as much as politically
In a first, a new dictionary of ancient Egyptian colloquial
The language was on the Rosetta Stone but the dictionary is only now being published
How the US is playing into the hands of the Salafiyeen
The US just told the Salafiyeen they have the power to affect aid talks. Big mistake
Tracking how the Egyptian government is doing
Before the revolution, Egypt had no politics. Now it does, and the small things matter
Pay no attention to these anti-American protests in Cairo
I was in Cairo 48 hours ago: there is no great wave of anti-Americanism right now
The Egyptian Angel of Darkness passes away
For the US, Omar Suleiman was ‘our man in Cairo.’ That only makes it worse