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August 5, 2011

Justice in Cairo?

The trial of Hosni Mubarak began this week. Throughout the world the indelible image of the former president in a cage was printed on page one of a thousand newspapers. Mubarak was a dictator, and v…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

June 4, 2013

Middle East and North Africa
NGO Verdict in Cairo, Failure in Washington

Here is what happened in Cairo in the case of 43 NGO workers whose crime was to promote democracy in Egypt: An Egyptian court on Tuesday convicted 43 nonprofit workers, including at least 16 America…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

October 18, 2010

Politics and Government
Truthiness in Cairo

Cairo - It used to be that Egypt did big things based on big ideas. The Aswan High Dam, unity with Syria, Nasserism, the Crossing (of the Suez Canal), infitah, and peace with Israel, to name just …

Truthiness in Cairo
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

January 25, 2011

Egypt
Cairo Protests

Cairo - Well, today was the big day…January 25th…National Police Day…and Egypt’s Day of Rage. It began for me at 230am when I was wandering back to my hotel from Bab el Luq.  I found myself on Fala…

Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

November 14, 2013

United States
Red Star Over Cairo?

When I heard that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his colleague Sergei Shoigu, the defense minister, were to visit Cairo, I dusted off my copies of Mohammed Hassanein Heikal’s The Sphinx a…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates