Egypt Votes: A Primer on the Arab World's First Free Presidential Election
Likely outcomes of the heavily contested first round, and what happens next… More »
Thanassis Cambanis, a columnist at The Boston Globe and a regular contributor to The New York Times, is writing a book about Egypt's revolutionaries. He is a fellow at The Century Foundation, teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and blogs at thanassiscambanis.com. He is also the author of A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel.
Likely outcomes of the heavily contested first round, and what happens next… More »
The secular diplomat, the Muslim Brother, and the 'liberal Islamist' are facing off to become the first freely elected leader of Egypt.… More »
An opaque and unelected bureaucracy is guiding the country's future away from its revolutionary ideals.… More »
Travels and conversations with the irreplaceable friend and writer, who died from an asthma attack while reporting in Syria.… More »
How the country's politicians, activists, elites, its sponsors in Washington, and most of all the military have failed it at a critical moment… More »
While Hezbollah's support of Syria's Assad is unpopular, at least for now, the group will remain a critical player in regional politics… More »
So far, Egyptian politics center around debate among competing interpretations of Islamic politics, rather than a struggle between religious and secular parties… More »
Today's vote pits Islamists against secularists, campaigners against boycotters, the military leadership against the civilian one, and a legacy of autocracy against the hopes for democracy… More »
As the military chief and new Egyptian ruler promised reform, demonstrations against his rule only intensified… More »
As protesters demand the military rulers allow civilian rule, how will generals respond?… More »
This weekend's enormous protests and violent crackdown -- both some of the largest since Mubarak's ouster -- have changed Egypt's still-struggling revolution in several fundamental ways… More »
Three weeks ago, peaceful Christian protesters were killed in what appeared to be an orchestrated attack by the state. But, whatever actually happened, many here believe it was the event that either closed the ill-fated Egyptian revolution or began its second chapter.… More »
Two of Egypt's star youth activists visited the protesters in New York, but what they found was not quite an American Tahrir… More »
Hamas, Hezbollah, and other resistance already understand their incentive to capture Israelis, dead or alive, and barter them… More »
Kept guessing by the military leaders and pressured by a small activist base that disdains working within the system, the same Egyptians who led the Tahrir uprising are now losing out… More »
Egypt's de facto ruler walked around Cairo Monday night as state television's commentator touted touted Tantawi's presidential material… More »
Will workers join political reformists in Egypt, or will they negotiate a separate deal with the post-Mubarak military regime?… More »
What happens if -- or, more likely, when -- the Lebanese Party of God loses a crucial sponsor in Damascus?… More »
How should the U.S. adjust to a changing, post-9/11 world?… More »
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