Haaretz, 2/2/13 - John Kerry was sworn in to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton, who ended a four-year tenure as secretary of state that made her one of America's most popular public figures, despite leaving on a bitter note amid a partisan feud over the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission ...

 Washington Times, 1/31/13 - John F. Kerry had better bring his A-game when he takes the field as the new secretary of state on Monday. The “Arab Spring” may be headed for a fall in Egypt, threatening what remains of the Middle East’s fragile stability. If the United Stat...

 11/1/12 - Global Post - CAIRO, Egypt — Republican challenger Mitt Romney has accused US President Barack Obama of letting Egypt, a once stalwart friend, slip away. All politics aside, it is true that Egypt is no longer the unflinching ally it once was. Shaken by a popular upr...

 Atlantic, 10/23/12 - Hosni Mubarak had to go. It's nice that the presidential candidates can agree on something. (Never mind that they agree on something that happened over twenty months ago.) During last night's debate, both candidates said that the United States had to stand with the b...

 Washington Post, 9/11/12 - The raising of an al-Qaeda banner by the angry mob that breached the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday — the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — was disturbingly apt. Huge majorities in major Muslim countries prefer baseless conspir...

 New York Times, 7/9/12 - WASHINGTON — In his first major speech last month, Mohamed Morsi, the new Egyptian president, pledged to seek the release of a notorious Egyptian terrorist from a North Carolina prison. Not long before that, a member of a designated terrorist organization, G...

 Reuters, 4/22/12 - Egyptian energy companies, citing a trade dispute, have terminated a deal to supply Israel with natural gas in a step that may further erode bilateral ties strained by a popular revolt that toppled Egypt's pro-Israeli leader last year. An Israeli partner in the busines...

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 Almasry Alyoum, 10/30/11 - A European Parliament delegation will visit Cairo this week to discuss the recent tensions regarding the Coptic Christian community in Egypt, diplomatic sources in Brussels told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Saturday. The delegation will be headed by Irish Member of the ...

10/29/11, Christian Post Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have condemned the massacre of peaceful protesters in Egypt and Syria, and have passed a resolution this week calling for authorities in the nations to do more to protect vulnerable and targeted Christian communities. Religious Fre...

Weekly Standard, 9/15/11 - News from Egypt is not good. Six months after the revolution, demonstrators in Tahrir Square are no longer protesting the Mubarak regime, but the military’s own undemocratic governing practices. Meanwhile, the economy is deteriorating and the security situation&...

 Jerusalem Post, 8/19/11 A number of Egyptian soldiers were killed and injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up on the Egyptian side of the border with Israel on Friday morning near the Philadelphi Route crossing. Security officials said that the suicide bomber was thought to belong to ...

 CNN, 6.13.11:  CAIRO – In the months since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, his successors have signaled a shift in foreign policy by reaching out to former adversaries. Egypt’s government has welcomed Iranian diplomats and embraced the Palestinian group ...

 'موت بن لادن لا يعني موت القاعدة'، هكذا'أعلن'أعداء وأصدقاء بن لادن، الرجل الاسطورة الذي اعتبره أعداؤء'زعيم الارهاب'في العالم'وهللوا لمقتله، بينما ترحم عليه مؤيدوه واحتسبوه شهيداً في الجنة،'ورغم اتفاقهم على'أن موته'لا يعني موت القاعدة،'الا ان هذا لا يعني أنهم على صواب. نعم ستحدث على الأغلب ع...

 4/18/2011, Crosswalk In a victory for worldwide religious freedom, a measure that criminalized criticism of other religions (namely Islam) has been removed from the United Nations docket. Pakistan introduced the Defamation of Religions Resolution to the United Nations Human Rights Council in...

 New York Times, 4/14/11 WASHINGTON — Even as the United States poured billions of dollars into foreign military programs and anti-terrorism campaigns, a small core of American government-financed organizations were promoting democracy in authoritarian Arab states. The money spent on th...

WSJ, 4/2/11  'What Went Wrong?" That was the explosive title of a December 2001 book by historian Bernard Lewis about the decline of the Muslim world. Already at the printer when 9/11 struck, the book rocketed the professor to widespread public attention, and its central question gripped ...

 WSJ, 3/29/11 - Talk to top U.S. officials here about how things are going in Egypt, and the gist of the answer reminds me of what Apollo XI astronaut Michael Collins told Mission Control while sailing over the Sea of Tranquility: "Listen, babe, everything is going just swimmingly.&qu...

Tomorrow, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Cairo, becoming the most senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak. She lands at a sensitive time, just days ahead of a controversial constitutional referendum, and in a political atmosphere characteri...

Relevant magazine, 3/7/2011 It must have been in a moment of weakness that I agreed to make some comments on the on-rushing, revolutionary events taking place in the Middle East and North Africa. Anyone who claims to know how all this will end is a fool. And tomorrow’s events may undermine my...

Washington Post, 3/7/11:  CAIRO - Egypt on Sunday got its second new government in less than six weeks, including a new foreign minister who is expected to take a tougher line with Israel than the government of the ousted president Hosni Mubarak did. The newly appointed prime minister, Essam S...

Washington Post, 2/14/2011 Imagine an Egypt that consistently opposes the West in international forums while relentlessly campaigning against Israel. A government that seeds its media with vile anti-Semitism, locks relations with Israel in a cold freeze and makes a habit of publicly rejecting "...

The Weekly Standard, 2/17/2011 Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority claims that Iran has scrapped plans to send two warships through the Suez, but Tehran denies it and says those vessels are still on their way. Whether those ships make it to the Suez or not isn’t important right now, because it...

 Since January 25th, we have all been watching with great admiration the many Egyptian men and women rising up to demand freedom and democracy. To my surprise, we saw such a wide representation of the nation – men and women, young and old, Muslim and Christian, dark and blond, rich and p...

The Congress Blog, 2/4/2011 Egyptians have taken to the streets in full force again today to demand the departure of President Hosni Mubarak, in their eleventh consecutive day of mass mobilization for regime change. At the same time, the American policy establishment is hyperventilating about the p...

 Almasry Alyoum, 1/19/2011:  Leaders participating in the Arab Economic Summit issued a statement rejecting foreign interference on the issue of minority rights in the Arab World. The summit opened Wednesday in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort. Earlier this week, Egyptian Foreign Minister ...

 Almasry Alyoum, 1/23/2011:  The Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Sunday criticized a recent US congressional hearing that discussed the issue of perceived "discrimination" faced by religious minorities in the Middle East, especially in Egypt and Iraq. A ministry statement released...

There are several other important questions within the one in the title. By and large, they are not fully answered. It is an uncontestable fact that the Egyptians in the Diaspora have every right to participate in Egypt’s political process as anyone still in Egypt. To paraphrase a term “...

The Atlantic, 1/17/2011 CAIRO -- On Friday evening, within hours of Tunisian ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fleeing the popular uprising against him, approximately one hundred Egyptian activists demonstrated in front of the Tunisian Embassy in Cairo. Though they were ultimately beaten back by securi...

 TIME, 1/18/2011 "Yes We Can!" read a placard carried by one Tunisian protester last week, hours before he and his peers scored an improbable victory by forcing the autocratic President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country. The demonstrator's confidence that standing up to scl...

1/20/2011 -  CAIRO (AP) — The head of the Arab League told the region's leaders Wednesday the upheaval in Tunisia is linked to deteriorating economic conditions throughout the Arab world, warning them that their people's anger has reached unprecedented heights. In impassioned remarks, ...

 Almasry Alyoum, 1/18/2011 As the government points the finger at “foreign hands” behind the recent Alexandria church bombing, the world is looking at Egypt, which has long been accused--both domestically and abroad--of neglecting the rights of its most prominent minority. Copts i...

AFP, 1/27/2011 - CAIRO — Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit warned Sunday the West to stay out of Arab affairs, days after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Arab leaders to work with their peoples to bring reforms. And in separate remarks, Cairo's top diplomat downplayed fe...

 Reuters, 1/7/2011 GENEVA - Attacks on religious minorities in places like Egypt, Nigeria and Pakistan should serve as a wake-up call to authorities everywhere to combat rising fanaticism, the top U.N. human rights official said Friday. All countries have a moral and legal duty to protect fre...

 CSM, 1/12/2011 - Cairo - A rare wave of protests sweeping through Tunisia has revealed a population not only concerned about high unemployment, but deeply angry with its repressive and corrupt regime. The unrest serves as a startling red flag for governments across the region that ha...

الجمعة، 14 يناير 2011  وأخيرا رحل الرئيس التونسى، زين العابدين بن على عن السلطة مضطرا بعد ثورة شعبية عارمة انطلقت من سوسة مسقط رأسه إلى جميع أنحاء البلاد. تولى بن على رئاسة تونس فى 7 نوفمبر 1987 بانقلاب أبيض على الرئيس الراحل الحبيب بورقيبة.. الذى كان مصابا بالشيخوخة والعجز وحكم عائلته &qu...

Doha, Qatar (CNN) 1/13/2010-- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Middle East leaders that they could be leaving their countries vulnerable to the influence of extremists and terrorists if they allow corruption and foster inequality, and ignore the voices of their people. Calling it a ...

 Reuters, 1/13/2010 - Countries across the Middle East need to shake up corrupt institutions and reinvigorate stagnant political systems or risk losing the future to Islamic militants, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday. Clinton, wrapping up a five-day tour through t...

National Review Online, 1/3/2011 Islamists exploded a bomb that killed 21 Coptic Christians and injured scores of others as they left a crowded New Year’s Mass at an Orthodox church in Alexandria, Egypt, thus continuing their practice of terrorizing this long-oppressed Middle Eastern religiou...

Washington Post, By Michael Posner -Saturday, December 18, 2010 Although it has held a series of troubling elections this year, Egypt has an opportunity to fulfill the commitments its government has made to the Egyptian people as it prepares for next year's presidential election, if it takes...

 Reuters, 12/20/2010 CAIRO (Reuters) - At Bayoumy's, a dingy, smoke-filled tea shop in downtown Cairo, Egyptian football fans groaned at the "biased" referee as they watched their national team lose 2-1 to the Gulf state of Qatar in a friendly last week. Once the television commentar...

 AFP, 12/15/2010 WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday launched a reform of US diplomacy that will turn ambassadors into corporate-like CEOs tasked with helping a country develop and avoid armed conflict. Wary of Republican calls for cost-cutting, Clinton pro...

CAIRO (Reuters) 12/16/2010 - Gamal Mubarak's chances of becoming Egypt's next president could suffer a blow if his father dies in office because he may lack the support of the powerful military, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables. Egypt, a U.S. ally, is heading for a 2011 presidential elect...

By Matthew Lee via Free Copts, 12/14/2010 UNITED NATIONS, December 14 -- A crowd of Egyptic Christians gathered Tuesday in front of the UN, and the the Egyptian Mission on 44th Street, demanding an end to legal and violent targeting in that country. Two representatives were allowed into the Egypti...

 The Daily Star, 12/14/2010 While the last two years in the Arab world have witnessed a few modest advances in political reform in Arab countries – importantly, women appear to be participating politically in larger numbers – the general trend has been authoritarian retrenchment, a...

 VOA News, 12/10/2010 Results from the latest round of Egypt's parliamentary elections are due on Tuesday, but already Egyptian-Americans are saying another chance has been lost for a more open democracy in their former homeland. The pessimism comes after two rounds of balloting - the first in...

 CAIRO, Dec 10, 2010 (Reuters) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in power since 1981, will likely run for a sixth term in 2011, "inevitably" win and stay in office until he dies, the U.S. ambassador to Cairo said in a leaked diplomatic cable. In the May 2009 cable released by the W...

 CSM, 12/1/2010 Elections in Egypt have become a leading bellwether for how much a US president really cares about democracy in the world. Egypt, after all, is the second largest recipient of American aid, the most populous Arab nation, and the birthplace of modern radical Islam. In theory, i...

 Fox News, 12/7/2010 An Egyptian official believes that Israel's intelligence agency might be behind the fatal shark attack of a German tourist in Sinai over the weekend, the Jerusalem Post reports. "What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark (in the sea) to hit tour...

 Washington Post, 12/4/2010 EGYPTIAN AND international observers were expecting last weekend's parliamentary elections to be afflicted with fraud and government-sponsored violence. As it turned out, they were mildly surprised - by just how blatant and pervasive the rigging was. The regime's ...