Polarization

13 years ago

Last night's massacre in Cairo has disputed origins, but the effect is all too clear:  polarization.  The Muslim Brotherhood will…

Inclusion is difficult

13 years ago

That's clear enough from this morning's news that the Salafist Nour party appears to have vetoed the already announced naming…

ElBaradei should not make Morsi’s mistakes

13 years ago

If Americans remember Mohamed ElBaradei at all, it is for his stubborn and ultimately vindicated resistance to the George W.…

Yemenis in DC

13 years ago

I spent a couple of hours with visiting Yemenis earlier this week, focused on the current national dialogue.  This was…

Meanwhile in the Balkans

13 years ago

I did this interview Wednesday for Bedrudin Brljavac of the Turkish Anadolu agency in Sarajevo: In the aftermath of the…

Was the coup a good idea?

13 years ago

This piece has been cross-posted at Ghurbeh. Like many, I’m confused about the events in Egypt.  While I sympathize with…

Leahy and democracy in Egypt

13 years ago

Senator Leahy said yesterday: U.S. aid is cut off when a democratically elected government is deposed by military coup or…

Coupkoo

13 years ago

With the army's seizure of power today, Egypt has swerved again in a revolutionary trajectory that has already passed through…

Egypt is in play

13 years ago

The Guardian this morning reports: Morsi offered a series of concessions in a four-hour meeting with General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi…

Tabler and Lynch go ten rounds

13 years ago

The Obama administration’s decision to arm the Syrian rebels is controversial in Washington.  While some support the decision, others consider…