ArticlesFrom the Potomac to the EuphratesWeekend ReadingShareWeekend ReadingBy experts and staffPublishedMay 20, 2011 12:58 p.m.Steven A. CookCFR ExpertEni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa StudiesShareEgyptian women walk past a policeman in the newly renovated historical street of Elmoez Lideen Ella in Old Cairo (Asmaa Waguih/Courtesy Reuters)