The Muslim Brotherhood Comes to America
Inside Egypt’s Salafi Movement
Who are the faces and voices of an oft-deemed bearded and veiled monolith? And what exactly do they want?
Notes on the ground From Cairo and beyond
Apr
04
Feb
13
Faces of the New Egypt
A cross-section of this large and diverse country discuss the year since Hosni Mubarak’s departure and what they see in the future.
Feb
05
Women and the Arab uprisings: 8 ‘agents of change’ to follow
Women have been at the forefront of the uprisings that started in Tunisia and soon cascaded west to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria and across the Gulf. Over the past year, Arab women have relished the promise of a change — and found a new sense of equality long suppressed under sclerotic patriarchal regimes. But many women activists fear that promise is now receding; and that women’s rights are being left on the political back-burner. In Egypt’s first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections — largely seen as the nation’s first free and fair vote — only nine of the newly elected 498 parliamentarians are women.
