...Delta plains. Amid these gorgeous surroundings are poverty and deprivation, racial and religious conflict, and other manifestations of man’s sinful nature. There is tremendous success and wealth, met in equal...
Delta
here & there
“The embourgeoisement of the Islamists”: Olivier Roy on the uprisings
by Justin Reynolds...prices and sack tenant farmers. So complete has this transformation been that Islamists are now wholly absent from the social movements active in the Nile Delta, where there has been...
off the cuff
Egyptian elections
by Margot Badran, Thanassis Cambanis, Mohammad H. Fadel, Charles Hirschkind, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Atef Said, Samuli Schielke, Jeremy F. Walton and Jessica Winegar...driving in the eastern Nile Delta. Islamists, meanwhile, raised specter of the return of the felool on the apron-strings of the army while breathlessly pledging allegiance to a secular state...
here & there
Finding Islam at Gitmo
by Nicole Greenfield...Errachidi to write out the shahada in English and transliterated Arabic. He then uttered the words aloud and, there on the floor of Guantánamo’s Camp Delta, became a Muslim. When...
Is this all there is
Listening in our disasters
by Sarah Azaransky
...activists in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Baker insisted SNCC organizers sit on porches for hours, spending weeks in a Mississippi Delta town so they might begin to understand...