Four years later, it’s clear that the Arab Spring didn’t stop U.S. support for friendly despots.
Doubling Down on Dictatorship in the Middle East
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Don’t Count Out the Arab Youth
Three ways rebellious young people are still reshaping the Middle East.
Did Nonviolence Fail in Egypt?
The Egyptian Revolution is a perfect case study for both the power and the limits of nonviolent mass movements.
Egypt’s Treacherous Road
Egyptians continue to find themselves in the throes of a revolution that began in January of 2011. Rarely are these easy periods for any nation, but now the darkness of oppression has brought the worst upon the people of Egypt. The recently deposed President Mohamed...
The New Rules of the Game in Egypt
Since deposing the country’s democratically elected government and rounding up supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s military has launched several bloody assaults on Islamist protesters and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi. Its notorious August 14...
Egypt Speaks, Again
The taxi driver was excited. Driving through the busy streets of Cairo a little more than a year ago, he wanted us to see his most prized token from the revolution that brought Egyptians to the streets in 2011.He passed his cell phone to the back seat to share a YouTube video of his children were singing the Egyptian national anthem—backwards. Backwards, he explained, because that was how former President Hosni Mubarak was ruling the nation. “We want Egypt to be for all Egyptians—Christians, Jews, and Muslims,” he declared, smiling broadly.
Egyptian Revolution Frozen in Its Tracks
The new government will probably be even more open to World Bank and IMF structural-adjustment programs than in the past.