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Not Good Enough, Mr. President
President Obama on Tuesday not calling for President Mubarak's immediate renunciation of power In the ten days since the eruption of the Egyptian revolution, President Mubarak’s government has shut...
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Dispatches From My Couch, Pt. II – Democracy, Egypt and the Neo-conservatives
When I was a baby, Reagan was president. In my toddler years, Bush led the country. My childhood saw Clinton in the Oval Office, my teen years another Bush. Now that I’m in my early-mid 20s, it’s...
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The Next Source of Instability
Food shortages are fueling unrest all over the world. In Tunisia, riots spurred by rising grain prices and food scarcity could not be quashed, and as anti-government sentiment rose to a deafening,...
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Dispatches From My Couch, Pt. III—From Irhal to Mabrouk via Tahrir
On the anniversary, coincidentally, of both the Iranian Revolution and Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, after the eighteen most thrilling days of my life, Hosni Mubarak left the office of the...
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Egypt Should Be Rapturous; Obama Should Be Ashamed: Thoughts on the...
Tahrir Square today, after Mubarak's resignation After 18 days of protests demanding his immediate resignation, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak finally yielded to the cries of the people and...
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The Next Source of Instability, Pt. II-Libya, Oil and Democracy
Libya is the latest country to come to a boil over the spreading revolutionary fervor that toppled Hosni Mubarak’s rule in Egypt and caused Tunisian President Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali to flee in...
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“Run, comrade, the old world is behind you!” 1968, 2011 and Revolutionary...
Paris, 1968, left; Cairo, 2011, right “Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy Cause summer’s here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy” —The Rolling Stones, Street...
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NY Activists: MEET AN EGYPTIAN REVOLUTIONARY LEADER – Tonight Only!
Ahmed Maher, co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, which catalyzed Egypt’s revolution this January and February, is in New York and would like to meet young activists here! He will be at the Brecht...
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Soccer, Cabs and Revolution: The Egyptian Youth Movement Comes to NYC
Waleed Rashed (left) and Ahmad Maher To hear Ahmed Maher tell it, the Egyptian revolution was as much about sports as anything else. Maher, 30, is one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, a...
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Palestine: the Logical Locus of Les Onzards
You are a Palestinian. You are forced to tolerate foreign troops, armed with machine guns and grenades, patrolling the shopping district of the city you live in, claiming the right, uncontestable...
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