I have been in Egypt since February 6, 2011, where I have been witnessing events, talking to friends, activists and…
America in the Egyptian revolution
Egypt
Debating the Muslim Brotherhood
A few days ago, the Al-Jazeera program Empire assembled a high-profile panel to discuss the future prospects of the Muslim Brotherhood…
Have the jihadis lost the moral high ground to the rebels?
It has been a season of earthquakes, and the political ones in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Middle…
New tensions in Egypt
Michael Slackman has a fairly extensive article in The New York Times on the Muslim Brotherhood's apparent consolidation of power…
Egypt’s revolution and the new feminism
The youth-driven Revolution of 2011, with its call for freedom and justice, is inscribing a new feminism, with a fresh…
Missed signals
At Muftah, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd reflects on how American observers may have overlooked the potential for political uprising, and eventual revolution,…
Religion and the emerging transnational Arab public
In the SSRC's Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum, Seyla Benhabib considers the recent and ongoing uprisings in the…
Revolution and women’s rights
Tuesday marked the first day of the 55th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women meeting. …
A Muslim revolution in Egypt
News organizations reporting on Egypt in the last two and half weeks have repeatedly raised the specter of the Muslim…
“The embourgeoisement of the Islamists”: Olivier Roy on the uprisings
Olivier Roy, writing in the New Statesman, argues that the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa show how…