“How do you say, ‘Robert Fisk is full of shit’ in Arabic?” Gaza: the topic du jour of local ahwas and downtown bars, the front page headline of every major newspaper and the st… more →
oum pushkinaSasha wrote 6 months ago: “How do you say, ‘Robert Fisk is full of shit’ in Arabic?” Gaza: the topic d … more →
Sasha wrote 8 months ago: The recent victory of President-elect Barack Obama has got everyone talking. So while Al-Qaeda has … more →
Sasha wrote 10 months ago: If the fact that it took Egyptian authorities 18 hours to extinguish the fire in Parliament building … more →
Sasha wrote 10 months ago: Amnesty International (AI) recently wrote a memorandum to President Mubarak asking him to observe in … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: I have frequently asked Egyptian friends if they believed that there would be an Egyptian revolution … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: Ayman Nour is the former president of the Egyptian political opposition party Al-Ghad. After he was … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: Maher El Gohary was born and raised a Muslim Egyptian, but secretly converted to Christianity 34 yea … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: Fellow expats and Cairenes, have you noticed that there are way more police officers controlling tra … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: Well, there were the French and then the Bolsheviks.. Then, there was the Orange Revolution, the Tul … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: This morning, Egyptian human rights activist, founder of the Ibn Khaldun Center and my old boss, Dr. … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: This morning the NYT published an article on tensions rising between Christians and Muslims in Egypt … more →
Sasha wrote 11 months ago: It’s official. The new cigarette boxes displaying the “anti-smoking warning images” are now av … more →