Environmental journalist @NatGeo, @NYT, @bbc etc. Global Fellow @ The Wilson Center, Fellow @ Center for Climate & Security
published on Jerusalem Report on Nov 28, 2013
As America’s stock in Egypt tumbles, the Russians come calling.
Tahrir Square is quite possibly the least attractive public space in central Cairo.
Bounded on one side by the Mogamma, the concrete beast that houses the belly of Egypt’s bureaucracy, hemmed in by a building site on another, and smothered with liberal amounts of cracked tarmac in the middle, the focal point of the Arab Spring scarcely lives up to its hallowed reputation.
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