Writing in what is quickly becoming one of the prime sources of English-language cultural and political commentary on recent events…
A post-Islamist Middle East?
Egypt
“Does Egypt Need a Pharaoh?”
Political scientists Alfred Stepan and Juan Linz argue, in an article for Project Syndicate, that a democratic transition following the…
Breaking the fear barrier in Egypt
"January 28th marked a major rupture in Egyptian history: it is the day Egyptians truly broke the fear barrier created…
The road to Tahrir
While the uprising in Egypt caught most observers of the Middle East off guard, it did not come out of…
Fear for the uprising
SSRC-IDRF fellow Omar Cheta assesses the situation in Egypt.
Space and resistance
It is illuminating to ponder the recent events in Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir as we try to understand the relationship between…
Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Žižek on the future of Egyptian politics
Tariq Ramadan and Slavoj Zizek on the future of Egyptian politics [video].
Egypt readings for the weekend
Readings on the popular struggle in Egypt recommended by Aaron Bady.
The Egyptian Revolution
Mohammed Bamyeh: "Never has a revolution that seemed so lacking in prospects gathered momentum so quickly and so unexpectedly."
The dignity of Egyptian youth
No one expected this unfolding series of events—certainly, no one of my generation (those of us in our mid-forties), nor…