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“We are fortunate—the world is fortunate—that we had the Tahrir days, that for eighteen days we lived the dream, and so we know—absolutely—that life can be that dream.” (Soueif 2012:187)

Centrally located in Cairo’s hectic landscape, strategically positio..

 “The people in Muhammad Mahmoud [street] are decidedly not revolutionaries,” they are “vandals,” insisted a police captain on the phone to Yusri Foda’s prime TV show Akhir Kalam. The officer in the video has a point. Four days into what became known as “the Second Revolution”—though..

Al-Qahira, The City Victorious, February 11, 2011

Never has a revolution that seemed so lacking in prosp..

Mubarak told Christiane Amanpour that Egyptian “culture” was anarchic in nature—and that chaos would break out if he stepped down. So, Egyptians are barbaric and can be tamed only by the strong hand of a loving father—what else is new? This is not just what Lord Cr..

[Translation Below. Thanks to Fida Adely]

This is a brief report after what promised to be a fateful night in which the Egyptian regime had resolved to break the will of protesters, particularly in Midan al-Tahreer. Like most readers, I have been glued to the tube and the internet, following multiple chann..

UPDATE BELOW. On February 2, CNN journalist Anderson Cooper was one of many victims of violence by Mubarakoids who turned Tahrir Square into a battle zone. Cooper w..

[Mozn sent this post an hour ago from Egypt. 4 am Cairo time; 9 pm Washington DC time]

If the military is ever to be a legitimate national force, it must side with the protesters against Mubarak’s thugs and the police. These thugs have been ridiculou..

Many analysts have been commenting on the broader significance of the astonishing and awe-inspiring events that have swept Egypt by storm over the past six days. From Tunisia to Yemen, the Arab world is in open revolt against the..

Dear President Obama:

As political scientists, historians, and researchers in related fields who have studied the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy, we the undersigned believe you have a chance to move beyond rhetoric to support the democratic ..