Egypt
Crisis Convergence
Why the global economic crash, the rise of the Tea Party, the Arab Spring, and China’s coming fall are all connected.
BY GEORGE MAGNUS | AUGUST 31, 2011
Stopping the Fifth Column
How to end a post-Qaddafi insurgency in Libya before it starts.
BY BRIAN FISHMAN | AUGUST 24, 2011
A Revolution, with Qualifications
What the naysayers got right about the Arab Spring.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 19, 2011
The Road to Tahrir
The roots of Egyptians' rage can be traced back to bad economic advice from the IMF -- and the crony capitalism it left behind.
BY TY MCCORMICK | AUGUST 18, 2011
Cairo's Revolutionaries Change Tactics
The hard-core activists who led the protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak are looking for other ways to make an impact. But with elections looming, are they losing the plot?
BY MAX STRASSER | AUGUST 10, 2011
Revolution's End
Looking at the Arab Spring through 20 years of post-Soviet history.
BY SUSAN GLASSER | AUGUST 8, 2011
Egypt's Protest Art
Art from the graffitists, cineastes, cartoonists, and photographers who are making Egypt's post-revolution phase a bit more colorful.
AUGUST 4, 2011
The Cultural Revolution
As Egypt's artists struggle with a newly repressive military regime, the creativity that flourished after this year’s revolution is taking on some new targets.
BY URSULA LINDSEY | AUGUST 4, 2011
Guilty Until Proven Guilty
In the cage of justice, sometimes a courtroom's verdict is long foretold.
BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 3, 2011
The Trial of the Century
Look beyond the cage. The problems facing Hosni Mubarak’s trial lie elsewhere.
BY NATHAN J. BROWN | AUGUST 3, 2011
The Arab Recession
They may be cheering for democracy, but for most countries affected by the Arab Spring the economic news will have them crying.
BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 22, 2011
Five Months of Waiting
What happens when a revolution stalls out?
BY SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS | JULY 15, 2011
Once More to Tahrir
On a hot summer day, Egypt's revolution grinds on.
BY MAX STRASSER | JULY 8, 2011
Paperwork Tigers
The developing world can do fine without more regulation, thank you very much. In fact, it can do better.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 1, 2011
The Most Notable Revolutionaries of 2011
Right, wrong, or otherwise -- these freedom fighters haven't let the powers-that-be block them, and we're (mostly) better off for it.
BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | JULY 1, 2011
Suspicious Minds
Is Ilan Grapel an Israeli spy, or an innocent victim of Egypt's overactive imagination?
BY MAX STRASSER | JUNE 16, 2011
The Cynical Dairy Farmer's Guide to the New Middle East
How a couple of cows explain a changing region: equal opportunity offender edition.
BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JUNE 15, 2011
Game of Thrones
Morocco is the Arab world's last chance to prove that monarchs can reform their countries without getting thrown out of them.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 10, 2011
Warsaw on the Nile
How do you get the new Arab democracies' economies in order? Look to Eastern Europe.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 3, 2011
It's Their Country, Too
Children on the increasingly violent frontlines of the Arab Spring face an unknown future for themselves and their countries.
MAY 27, 2011
Blinded by the Right
The GOP's blatantly partisan love for Bibi obscures a dangerous reality: that unwavering support for Israel actually hurts wider U.S. interests in the Middle East.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MAY 24, 2011
Tunnel Vision
Why even Egypt's new government won't end Gaza's isolation.
BY SHARON WEINBERGER | MAY 17, 2011
The Arab Spring Comes to Israel
Thousands of Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops during protests marking the anniversary of Israel's founding.
MAY 16, 2011
Arab Spring, Turkish Fall
Turkey's leaders are looking less like the new Ottomans they've imagined themselves to be and more like stumbling politicians afraid of a new regional order.
BY STEVEN A. COOK | MAY 5, 2011
The End of Tunnelnomics
Is Hamas’s lucrative underground trade about to come to a screeching halt?
BY ADEL ABDEL GHAFAR | MAY 4, 2011
Why Recessions Are Good for Freedom
Democracy is best served with a side of economic stagnation.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2011
What Happens When the Arab Spring Turns to Summer?
Ruminations on the revolutions of 2011.
BY DAVID IGNATIUS | APRIL 22, 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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