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As the fighting in Gaza continues, so too have Egypt’s efforts to mediate a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. According to Shibley Telhami, the persistence...

Earlier this week, Hamas rejected a proposal to end hostilities in Gaza, which was initiated by Egypt and initially accepted by Israel. The proposal would...

As Egyptians celebrated the inauguration of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi one month ago, video footage emerged of a brutal mass sexual assault that occurred...

Earlier this week, events on the one year anniversary of Egypt’s June 30 protests provided an appropriately grim testimony to the bitter legacy of Mohamed...

Following Monday’s news that Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste, and Baher Mohamed had been sentenced to seven and ten year prison terms for...

Abdullah El-Shamy, an Al-Jazeera journalist who was detained by Egyptian authorities following the Rabaa dispersal on August 14 of last year, was released late...

It took a week after the election results were announced, but Sisi finally received his congratulations from the U.S. government when President Barack Obama...

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was officially declared the winner of Egypt’s presidential election earlier this week, with the Presidential Election Commission...

As Egypt’s predictable presidential election ended on Wednesday with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi winning more than 90 percent of the vote, violence resumed next...

During the Arab Spring, new forms of activism proliferated across the Middle East. In a policy brief for POMED that is based on their new book Taking to the...

Benefiting from significant state support and the repression of his political opponents, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El Sisi will likely cruise to an easy...

Three years after the January 25 Revolution, Egypt is no longer in a democratic transition, but the situation does not have to stay that way forever. Though...

The International Republican Institute released a poll on April 23 that looks at the state of democracy in Tunisia. The poll finds increased optimism and...

The June 30 alliance that overthrew former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi last year brought Egypt’s liberal political parties together with supporters of...

How long can a government continue to run on the fumes of empty promises? As Egyptians prepare to elect Abdel Fattah El Sisi to the presidency, the question...

By the time then Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was ousted from power on July 3, a consensus had developed amongst Morsi’s opponents in which his...

It's official: Abdel Fattah El Sisi will soon be president of Egypt (Photo Credit: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reutuers). Abdel Fattah El Sisi has ended months of...

It's too soon to give up on democracy in the Middle East. (Photo Credit: Scott Williamson). As the Arab Spring continues its increasingly dark turn, hope...

Violence between Islamists and the security forces has spread across Egypt since Morsi's ouster in July. (Photo Credit: AFP). After Defense Minister Abdel...

Field Marshal Abdel Fattah El Sisi will likely announce his presidential bid in the following weeks. (Photo Credit: AP) Following a public endorsement from...

Three years after the Arab Spring began, prospects for a more democratic Middle East seem worse than ever. Political transitions appear stalled in Egypt,...

The Egyptian government has its new constitution, but the document’s passage can hardly be construed as bolstering the government’s claims of democratic...

Since the Egyptian military moved to oust then president Mohamed Morsi on July 3, 2013, analysts have tried to understand the motives that drove the generals...

Russia hopes to capitalize on Egypt's frayed relations with the United States. (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons) When the Obama administration decided to...

The Egyptian military is stronger than ever, but there is still hope that, eventually, its political power can be contained. When I recently asked a...

After the Egyptian military forcibly removed President Mohammed Morsi from office on July 3, several analysts were quick to suggest that the president had only...