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It is the Friday of, as they say in Arabic, "Zahf."
The word connotes a kind of military advance or march---in this case, of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, pushing steadily from the gove...
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Crafted with his characteristic mix of brilliance and dark speculations about the motives of government actors, Stephen Holmes, my colleague, has published an exceptionally rich essay in the Financial Ti...
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Last Friday afternoon, while many people were enjoying a long July 4th weekend, the Obama Administration quietly filed a remarkably strong amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reverse the Ninth Circ...
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As I promised yesterday I would, I go back to the Egyptian Museum this morning.
In the old days---the days when Egypt was a repressive but stable police state---as many as 10,000 people would come throu...
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On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia and the UAE showed their support for the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi, and the army's new grip on power, by presenting Egypt with eight billion dollars in...
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It's the first morning of Ramadan---a little after 5:30. For the first time I can remember, I hear birds in Cairo, loud chattering ones that persist despite the city's inhospitality to wildlife.
I am se...
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It was a terrible day by 6 am Monday morning, and it has been getting worse all day. What we know: 51 people died from gunshot wounds that they sustained outside the Republican guard facility, and 435 ot...
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Tahrir Square is full tonight. Tamarod marchers converge on downtown from all over Cairo. Rabaa el Adaweya is packed as well again today, only with Morsi supporters.
I haven't written yet in this diary ...
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Egypt has a new Prime Minister---or not.
State news media announced on Saturday that Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize winner and outspoken critic of the Brotherhood and the Mubarak regime, had been appoin...
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So much violence tonight.
When people called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they clashed against state security forces with a clear goal in mind. There was a positive objective. Not ...
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In the U.S., the Fourth of July is the nation's birthday. In Egypt, it's the first day of the rest of the country's life.
It happened so fast that many of us are still in shock, still processing everyth...
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At 7 p.m. this evening, Mohamed Morsi was informed by the armed forces that he was no longer president of Egypt. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has been sacked and sentenced to one year in prison. All I ca...