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Nov 30, 2013
The perils of American disengagement from the Middle East
It must be remarkably gratifying -even amusing – for many Egyptians to watch the United States scrambling to get back in their interim government’s good graces. How tempting it must be to throw…
Nov 28, 2013
Cairo's dalliance with Moscow
As America’s stock in Egypt tumbles, the Russians come calling.
Nov 20, 2013
The Dying Art of Belly Dancing in Conservative Egypt
At the Scheherezade club in Cairo’s downtown district, five paying customers and a dozen staff sat and gawped as the belly dancer shimmied across the stage, amid the peeling paint, chipped murals,…
Sep 27, 2013
Water Wars: Egyptians Condemn Ethiopia's Nile Dam Project
As the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam takes shape, tempers rise.
Sep 12, 2013
Egypt's Latest Conspiracy Theories Target the Country's Syrian Refugees
After fleeing a warzone, Syrians find that Egyptians want to hunt them down.
Aug 20, 2013
There Are No More Good Guys in Egypt
One thing that makes this crisis so vexing: Each of the country's major groups have done something totally horrible in the past few weeks.