Since the removal of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, much of the discourse on the interim government’s handling…
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Hosni Mubarak
Egyptian elections
July 2, 2012
The protests in the Middle East and North Africa, and the ensuing political changes, were intended to transcend the old…
Coptic Christians and Egypt’s future
May 18, 2012
Yasmine Saleh recently reported on the dilemma many Coptic Christians face in the upcoming Egyptian presidential election.
Paradoxes of “religious freedom” in Egypt
April 16, 2012
The place of religion in the political order is arguably the most contentious issue in post-Mubarak Egypt. With Islamist-oriented parties…
(In)Visible Copts
June 14, 2011
At Jadaliyya, Anthony Shenoda reflects on the simultaneous visibility and invisibility of the Coptic Christian community in Egypt.
Myths of Mubarak
February 2, 2011
The term ‘secular’ and its conceptual affiliates are doing a lot of work in misrepresenting the uprising in Egypt. ‘Secular’…