Opinion
What’s behind Israel’s Pillar of Defense?
December 8, 2012
What’s behind Israel’s Pillar of Defense?
Now that it has ended with a truce, maybe it’s time to understand the logic behind Israel’s Operation Pillar…
Our revolution was historic, the Brotherhood’s constitution is not
December 7, 2012
Our revolution was historic, the Brotherhood’s constitution is not
To decide whether to vote yes or no to the new constitution, we have to go back in time to…
Copts and the power over personal status
December 6, 2012
Copts and the power over personal status
When former President Hosni Mubarak introduced amendments to the 1971 Constitution in 2007, the always contested issue of the status…
Bhopal’s lessons to Egypt
December 4, 2012
Bhopal’s lessons to Egypt
Twenty-eight years ago the world awoke to the aftermath of one of the most notorious industrial disasters begun in the…
Uncle Morsy
December 4, 2012
Uncle Morsy
The past two weeks, since Morsy announced his Hitler powers, have been the bleakest since the revolution began.
Egypt deserves better
December 3, 2012
Egypt deserves better
Back in March 2011, I bought a T-shirt in Tahrir Square with a bold Arabic “no” written in black on the…
Stop calling us Copts
December 2, 2012
Stop calling us Copts
In early October, after the forced migration of several Christian families from Rafah, Al-Masry al-Youm published a cartoon, the first…
Egyptian undemocratic liberals
December 1, 2012
Egyptian undemocratic liberals
To be a liberal is to be democratic. That’s a no-brainer.In Egypt, as in American foreign policy, however, the situation…
Against Morsy’s constitutional declaration
November 30, 2012
Against Morsy’s constitutional declaration
In essence, President Mohamed Morsy’s constitutional declaration is an attack on the judicial institution to force it out of the…
The view from the officers’ club
November 29, 2012
The view from the officers’ club
Since 1952, the military has been the guarantor of both the nation and the state. Since February 2011, it has…