I debated an Egyptian cleric on Salafi TV: a report for The Atlantic.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, Egypt, religion
5 October 2012 • 5:02 pm 0
Preacher, Tailor, Salafi, Spy
A report for The New Republic.
Filed under: New Republic, Egypt, religion
29 August 2012 • 4:28 pm 0
Cairo, City of Fights
A report for the IHT.
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, Egypt
3 July 2012 • 4:26 pm 0
A History of Mob Violence
On public violence in Cairo. (IHT)
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, Egypt
6 December 2011 • 4:44 pm 0
Clinging to the Egyptian Army
I visited Nag Hammadi for the IHT and found an Egyptian Wild West.
Read my story here.
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, Egypt, religion
1 November 2011 • 4:50 pm 0
Microrevolutions off Tahrir Square
Originally published on the IHT‘s Latitude blog.
CAIRO — It has been nearly three months since the last really big, unmanageable crowd converged on Tahrir Square and threatened to stay until its demands were met. On the eve of Ramadan, in early August, the Egyptian military smacked and clubbed that group — a broad but woefully inarticulate coalition opposing the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces’ hold on power — out of the square. And much to the protesters’ horror, the majority of Egyptians seemed fairly satisfied with the pushback, preferring a return to order even if it came with a military policeman’s truncheon. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: International Herald Tribune, Egypt
30 June 2011 • 7:36 am 0
The latest from Tahrir
I filed a post for TheAtlantic.com from Tahrir.
Filed under: Atlantic Monthly, Egypt, Middle East
11 April 2011 • 6:31 pm 0
Holy Treasure
Originally appeared in The Daily.
In December 1945, an Egyptian peasant named Muhammad Ali Samman and his brother wandered away from their village in central Egypt, hoping to scoop up a few buckets of soft dirt to fertilize his crops. Digging next to a large boulder, Muhammad Ali found a mysterious earthenware jar about 3 feet tall. He and his brother backed away from it, worrying that it might contain a genie. Then, on further reflection, they considered that it might contain gold, and they smashed it apart, thereby releasing a force in some ways more disruptive to traditional Christianity than any genie could have been. Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Daily, books, Egypt, history, Middle East, religion
