GWOT: Egypt

Negar Azimi : US Foreign Policy

America's "war on terror" has strengthened Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's stranglehold on civil liberties.

The Uninvited Guest

Roger Owen : History

Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt examines the little dictator's doomed attempt to occupy an Arab country.

The CIA's Italian Job

Mohamad Bazzi : Civil Rights After 9/11

The story of Hassan Nasr, a victim of "extraordinary rendition" who was interrogated and tortured in Egypt for four years, is finally being told.

Bloggers Against Torture

Negar Azimi : Internet & New Media

In Egypt, bloggers have cracked into a tightly sealed state monopoly on information dissemination.

Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation

Laila Lalami : Books, Literature, & Ideas

Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.

Adrift in Egypt

Negar Azimi : Sudan

A brutal raid on an encampment of refugees in Cairo has focused the world's attention on the netherworld Sudanese occupy in Egypt.

Egypt's Islamist Dilemma

Lee Smith : Islam & Muslims

Militant leaders now preach peace, but they may have won the ideological war.

Dispatch From Egypt

Steve Negus : Peace Activism

Justice Denied in Egypt

Daniel Swift : Human Rights

Ibrahim's conviction and sentence is a savage parody of justice.

Egyptian Justice, US-Style

Steve Nagus : Military Tribunals