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In Syria, America Loses if Either Side Wins 26 Aug 2013 | 02:31 pm
You know those nightmarish images of chemical attack victims in Syria you saw (or if you are like me, glimpsed and then avoided looking at) last week? It should be our goal to keep that shit coming, s...
Egypt linkdump 23-25 August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 01:58 pm
Various things clogging up the browser tab bar... ‘We are not in civil war, but catastrophe has many forms’ - Interview with Rabab al-Mahdi - Ahram Online Egypt's politics: Pyramids of power | The E...
Changes coming to this site 26 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
When I created this blog 10 years ago, shortly after the invasion of Iraq, I had no idea it would become so well-trafficked or that it would last so long. It was an experiment, one that had its up and...
Et Tu Sonallah? 25 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
On the New Yorker's blog, Robyn Creswell lauds Sonallah Ibrahim (whose first novel That Smell he recently translated, to glowing reviews) as Egypt's "oracular novelist," arguing that his skepticism ov...
Back to Basics 25 Aug 2013 | 01:27 pm
Our latest translation courtesy of the team at Industry Arabic is a column from former National Salvation Front spokesman Khaled Dawoud (he quit over his inability to continue dismissing the Rabaa mas...
We have always been at war with Eastasia, Egypt version 25 Aug 2013 | 01:58 am
From Bradley Hope's account of the increasingly widespread belief that Morsi and friends were broken out of prison by Hamas and Hizbullah, and other re-writings of the 2011 uprising: This view is no....
Back to Cairo 23 Aug 2013 | 01:54 pm
The man across the aisle was reading an article headlined: “No Turning Back and No Surrender Before the Forces of Darkness.” As our plane descended over night-time Cairo, the streets were blurry in th...
Mrs. Lincoln’s Egyptian Constitution 22 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
Nathan Brown, in FP, asks: Can a constitution written in 2012 largely by people now decried as terrorists really be amended to serve Egypt in 2013? Isn't the new regime's "road map" to restore const....
Meanwhile in Tunisia 21 Aug 2013 | 04:06 am
Allegations of a deal between the country's two top political leaders: Not much reliable information about the meeting in Paris between former Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi and Ennahda l....
The Way Out 21 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
I prefer to see what happened as a great fire, which many shared in starting, some out of negligence and stupidity, some out of revenge, some of out greed and some out of inattention. Everyone thought...
