You know things are bad when some of the most sensible analysis is coming from self-declared Marxists, but Egyptian leftist activist Hossam ...

My readers know that Arabic diglossia and the spoken Arabic dialects are a persistent interest of this blog, so here's a post that has ...

Anyone who was clinging to a lingering hope that SCAF would reject or overrule yesterday's court rulings can take off the rose-colored g...

You might have thought that Al-Tahrir newspaper would have thought to put the Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court on the cove...

For the past year SCAF and the Muslim Brotherhood have been playing each other, with SCAF often behaving in such an incoherent and contradic...

As reactions to today's dramatic developments continue, Nathan Brown brings is expertise as an expert on constitution-writing to bear in...

A thought in a somewhat lighter vein: Despite earlier reports that both houses of Parliament will be dissolved under the Egyptian court ruli...

I'm sure there's going to be a lot of commentary today about the turn of events in Egypt. Besides my own preliminary take I'll ...

 On a day when Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court handed down two decisions which each could have thrown the country into chaos, it ch...

Egyptian bloggers and tweeters have declared today a day to post in protest of sexual harassment , after an anti-sexual harassment march by ...

Egypt's Justice Ministry has issued a decree allowing Military Intelligence and Military Police to arrest civilians for non-military cri...

Tunisia is reeling from a wave of clashes Monday night in the elite seaside community of La Marsa and several other parts of the capital, a...

This is a few weeks old, but worth pointing to if you haven't seen it: "35 Years Since Star Wars Premiered and the Force is Still ...

I believe the last time (probably the only time) this  blog had occasion to discuss Madonna was when some of her Israeli fans asked Netanyah...

Ahram Online has published the names of the 100 members of Egypt's Constituent Assembl y, the designatio of whom has continued to provo...

The omnipresent, unforgiving, and parody-producing Thing Known as Social Media and the Internet is joking about Tom Friedman of the New York...

The blogger suzeeinthecity has been documenting graffiti in Cairo ever since the revolution, and I've linked to her a number of times. ...

I'm not an enthusiast for the Muslim Brotherhood; even if I wwere a political Islamists, which I clearly am not, I'd be bothered by ...

It's been a while since we've had a "death of Arabic imminent" article, which I always enjoy dissecting; purists have been...

Egyptian State TV has suspended (apparently not "pulled" for good as some are reporting) two public service announcements that had...

A real headline from the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) from a couple of days ago: Kuwaiti Beach Volleyball Team Head to China. Ponder that tho...

I think it was Ronald Reagan who once reflected that one thing that would end our geopolitical rivalries would be an alien invasion. Any hop...

I haven't been paying much attention to Iraq lately, despite the growing struggles between Prime Minister Maliki and his enemies; I'...

Al-Nahar Ghassan Tueni, lynchpin of a Lebanese political and journalism family, has died at the age of 86. The son of the founder of the ...

Colin H. Kahl, Melissa Dalton, and Matthew Irvine have a new report at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) on "Risk and Riva...

Minya Montage (Wikipedia) Reuters has a piece, "Egypt Province Hopes Vote Will End its Isolation," about the Middle Egyptian ...

Laboring through the night under a drop-dead deadline this afternoon, Egypt's political parties have agreed on a formula for representat...

Steve Inskeep at NPR is on a "Revolutionary Road Trip" across North Africa, and in his report "Once Tolerated, Alcohol Now C...

Emblem, 1er Spahis Marocains Today is the 68th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy. Usually when we talk of World War II, eve...

The first eight of some 50 cars owned by the family of deposed Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali have been shown to the public prio...