Egypt’s Terrible FGM Death
... which brutalizes young women. The death of Soheir has thrown a spotlight on the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM), a ritual which is still widely practiced across Egypt despite...
-
-
Egypt’s Gay Moment
... robbed for "dressing like a faggot"—and avoiding the police for fear that they, too, would target him for being gay. Though homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt, coming out has always...
-
Egypt Sentences American Workers to Jail Time
... one to five years. The court also declared the closure of five foreign nonprofit organizations operating in Egypt and ordered the confiscation of their funds. They are the U.S.-based...
-
Kerry’s Secret Gift to Egypt
... in NGOs not registered with the government. Only one of those Americans, the National Democratic Institute’s Robert Becker, actually stayed in Egypt to await the verdict. He was...
-
Why Egypt Is Too Big to Fail
Egypt is a mess, and its leaders seem intent on making a bad situation even worse. Returning recently from my fourth trip to Egypt in 18 months, I see the endless missed...
-
Ransomed in Egypt
... daughter.Fears of violent crime abound in Egypt, a nation still mired in upheaval. The security crisis has been one of the revolution’s darkest legacies, with the country’s leaders—first the...
-
Egypt’s Conscience
... portrayal of sex and masturbation prompted one critic to decry That Smell’s “lowness, its vulgarity.” Twenty years later, when an unedited version of the book finally appeared in Egypt...
-
Desperate to Go to War, Syrians in Egypt Find an Ally to Help
... who can help: Abu Samer (not his real name), perhaps the most prolific recruiting officer for anti-Assad rebels in Egypt. Formerly a wealthy Damascus-based businessman, 51-year-old...
-
IDF Budget Cuts Are An Opportunity In Disguise
... military that can take on the IDF.Syria’s military is barely managing against lightly-armed rebels and Egypt, which Israel has peace with and where the quality of the military is often...
-
It’s the Egyptian Economy, Stupid
As Egypt lurches from one crisis to the next, it’s the country’s battered economy, analysts say, that may be President Mohamed Morsi’s greatest challenge yet. The 2011 revolution...
