Opinion

  Religious sectarianism has a particularly bitter taste, and Egypt is presently witnessing one of its darkest chapters amid a…

In an interesting story called “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Danish author Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of an emperor…

Copts are being persecuted in Egypt. So, what’s new about that? This has been the norm in our “beloved homeland”…

During the particularly hair-raising moments of the revolution, when some of the popular committees manning checkpoints on the streets were…

Time to let go of futile binaries   Since the polarization of pro-revolution and counter-revolution camps in the aftermath of…

In the following lines, I level four criticisms against what I term the imperialist liberal trend of thought and how…

I reject the return of any of my photojournalists to the site of the clashes in front of St. Marks…

The revolutionaries who reluctantly voted for President Mohamed Morsy in the runoffs in the presidential election — the “Lemon Squeezers,”…

It is a motley crew that finds shelter in Tahrir Square these days. On the afternoon of 7 April, a…

A few days ago, the pro-Muslim Brotherhood prosecutor general pressed charges against a number of iconic youth revolutionary figures. The…