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October 20, 2010

Politics and Government
October in Egypt

Cairo - I had some down time today, and this being October, I braved the traffic and went out to Nasr City to visit the 1973 War Panorama, which commemorates al Ubuur or “the Crossing” of the Suez …

Egypt Eissa Press Freedom
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

September 12, 2013

Egypt
Return to the Bad Old Days

This article was originally published here on ForeignPolicy.com on Thursday, September 12, 2013.  In October 1990, extremists affiliated with the terrorist organization Egyptian Islamic Jihad raked …

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

August 10, 2015

Egypt
Whatever is the Matter With Egypt? Nothing All That New

My friend Hisham Melham, Al Arabiya’s Washington bureau chief, dean of the Beltway-based Arab press corps, farmer, and intellectual with few peers, wrote a piece that appeared over the weekend called…

Whatever is the Matter With Egypt
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

April 26, 2012

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Middle East Matters This Week: Syria Plan Flounders, Iraq’s Kurds Worry

Significant Middle East Developments Syria. The United Nations Security Council established the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria on Saturday, increasing the number of ceasefire monitors there fro…

Members of the first U.N. monitoring team in Syria, together with members of the Syrian Free Army, visit Homs on April 21, 2012.
Blog Post by Robert Danin Middle East Matters

February 6, 2014

The World Next Week: Francois Hollande Visits Washington, Egypt Marks the Anniversary of Mubarak’s Ouster, and the Chicago Auto Show Opens

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed French president Francois Hollande’s upcoming visit to Washington, the third anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in Egypt, and the Chi…

U.S. president Barack Obama shakes hands with French president Francois Hollande after a meeting in the Oval Office in 2012. (Eric Feferberg/Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge