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Egypt + 100: Stories From a Century After Tahrir

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

How to Match Ends and Means in the Middle East

Dennis Ross
Snapshot

The Promise of the Egyptian Plan for Gaza

Lisa Anderson
Snapshot

What Jimmy Carter Left Behind

Tom Donilon
Snapshot

Does America Still Need Egypt?

Michael Wahid Hanna
Snapshot

The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

We Are Your Soldiers: How Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab World

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Dirty Money Is Destroying Sudan

John Prendergast
Snapshot

Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Laughter in the Dark: Egypt to the Tune of Change

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Israel’s Self-Destruction

Aluf Benn
Essay

My Egypt Archive

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Why Arab States Must Lead on Gaza

Lina Khatib
Snapshot

Egypt in the Cauldron of Gaza

Lisa Anderson
Snapshot

The Egyptian Economy in the Twenty-First Century: The Hard Road to Inclusive Prosperity

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Turmoil in the Middle East

Suzanne Maloney, Marc Lynch

An Invasion of Gaza Would Be a Disaster for Israel

Marc Lynch
Snapshot

Sudan’s Descent Into Chaos

Alex de Waal
Snapshot

Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

The Middle East Is on the Brink Again

Maha Yahya
Snapshot

Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

You Can Crush the Flowers: A Visual Memoir of the Egyptian Revolution

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

The Republic of False Truths

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Time to Cut Egypt Off

Sarah Leah Whitson
Snapshot

The Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics, and Urban Space

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Citizenship and Its Discontents: The Struggle for Rights, Pluralism, and Inclusion in the Middle East

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

Lisa Anderson
Capsule Review

Biden Doesn’t Need a New Middle East Policy

James F. Jeffrey
Snapshot

The Arab Uprisings Never Ended

Marc Lynch
Essay

Climate Change Doesn’t Have to Stoke Conflict

Tarek Ghani , Robert Malley
Snapshot

The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State

Geneive Abdo, Nourhan Elnahla
Snapshot

Nile Be Dammed

Michael Woldemariam
Snapshot

Crony Capitalism in the Middle East: Business and Politics From Liberalization to the Arab Spring

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

Owners of the Republic: An Anatomy of Egypt’s Military Economy

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

The Wounded Presidency, Part Two

Timothy Naftali
Comment

The Unwanted Wars

Robert Malley
Comment

An American in Cairo

Lisa Anderson
Review Essay

What Algeria and Sudan Can Learn From Egypt

Killian Clarke
Snapshot

Is There a Future for American Universities in the Middle East?

Lisa Anderson
Snapshot

To Stop Sisi, Strengthen Egypt’s Judiciary

Bruce Rutherford
Snapshot

Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

The Political Economy of Reforms in Egypt: Issues and Policymaking Since 1952

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

Muslim Brothers

Shadi Hamid
Review Essay

Democratic Transition in the Muslim World: A Global Perspective

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

Egypt’s Sham Election

Andrew P. Miller, Amy Hawthorne
Snapshot

Egypt

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

Egypt First

Michael Wahid Hanna, Daniel Benaim
Snapshot

Quiet Riots

Justin Murphy
Snapshot

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Fatal Mistake

Eric Trager
Snapshot

Do Copts Have a Future in Egypt?

Nina Shea
Snapshot

Egypt and Sudan’s Escalating Border Dispute

Maged Atef
Snapshot

Egypt's Failed War on Terror

David Schenker
Snapshot

Sisi Is No Partner For the United States

Meir Walters
Snapshot

Why Europe Is Floating Egypt's Navy

Mohamed Soliman
Snapshot

Sinai’s Suffering

Maged Atef
Snapshot

A Revolution Undone: Egypt’s Road Beyond Revolt

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution

John Waterbury
Capsule Review

Egypt Picks Sides in the Syrian War

Oren Kessler
Snapshot

Stuck With Sisi

Eric Trager
Snapshot

Commercial Diplomacy in the Middle East

Haisam Hassanein
Snapshot

Extremism Under Sisi

Khalil al-Anani
Snapshot

The Making of Egypt's Presidents

Peter Schwartzstein
Letter From

Egypt's Unlikely Ardor for Trump

Oren Kessler
Snapshot

No Westphalia for the Middle East

Selim Can Sazak

Egypt’s Nightmare

Steven A. Cook
Essay

Where the Turkish Military Fails, Egypt's Succeeds

Steven A. Cook
Snapshot

Hamas and Egypt Make Amends?

Oren Kessler, Grant Rumley
Snapshot

Egypt's Theory of Terrorism

Zack Gold, Elissa Miller
Snapshot

Why Sisi Fears Egypt's Liberals

Muhammad Mansour
Snapshot

ISIS Targets Egypt

Oren Kessler, Max Peck
Snapshot

Renewing the Alliance

Mohamed Soliman
Snapshot

Crying Wolf

Allison McManus, Jacob Greene
Snapshot

Egypt's Troubled Islands

Michael Wahid Hanna
Snapshot

Egypt's New Radicalism

Mokhtar Awad
Snapshot

Decay of the Dictatorships

Muhammad Mansour
Snapshot

Did Sisi Save Egypt?

Nathan J. Brown, Yasser El-Shimy
Snapshot

Egypt's Durable Arab Spring

Marina Ottaway, David Ottaway
Snapshot

The Brotherhood Breaks Down

Eric Trager, Marina Shalabi
Snapshot

A Nuclear Nile

Sigurd Neubauer, Yoel Guzansky
Snapshot

Last Alliance Standing

Yoel Guzansky, Ofir Winter
Snapshot

Sinai's Stubborn Insurgency

Omar Ashour
Snapshot

Getting Over Egypt

Michael Wahid Hanna
Comment

Partisans Without Parties

Emad Shahin, Jeff Martini
Snapshot

Egypt's Gift From God

Yuri M. Zhukov
Snapshot

Ancient Ales

Steve Hindy
Snapshot

Trading Peace in Egypt and Israel

Oren Kessler
Snapshot

Egypt's Old Strategy for New Terrorism

Nancy Okail, Allison McManus
Snapshot

Sisi and His 40 Thieves

Nizar Manek, Jeremy Hodge
Snapshot

Nuclear Power to the People

Bennett Ramberg
Snapshot

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Gets a Facelift

Eric Trager, Marina Shalabi
Snapshot

A Tale of Two Sadats

Gabriel Scheinmann
Snapshot

Seduced by a Strongman?

Jeff Martini
Snapshot

Houthi Who?

Asher Orkaby
Snapshot

Turkey and Egypt's Great Game in the Middle East

Soner Cagaptay, Marc Sievers
Snapshot

Hamas Nears the Breaking Point

Benedetta Berti, Zack Gold
Snapshot

Al Qaeda Loses Touch

Clint Watts
Snapshot

A Pipeline Against Peace

Tareq Baconi
Snapshot

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