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Jun 29, 2015, 10:43 PM

New TV show highlights Egypt’s Jewish problem

A new television series is shaking up the lucrative Ramadan viewing season in Egypt. The program – titled “The Jewish Quarter” and set in the late 1940s and early 50s – departs from decades of Egyptian precedent by depicting...

Jun 6, 2015, 9:10 AM

The FIFA farce and the Palestinians

The scandal-ridden soccer organizations passed a resolution that politicizes sports and appeases incitement

Jun 5, 2015, 9:52 PM

Terrorism and tourism in Egypt

Unidentified gunmen on motorcycles killed two members of the tourist police Wednesday at Egypt’s iconic pyramids of Giza. Egypt has experienced hundreds of attacks since the 2011 downfall of President Hosni Mubarak, mostly against state infrastructure and personnel. An...

Jul 28, 2014, 12:05 PM

On terror tactics and ‘mutual restraint’

Israel this weekend accepted an extension to a UN-brokered 24-humanitarian ceasefire, which Hamas promptly rejected. Two weeks ago Israel accepted an Egyptian-mediated, US-backed ceasefire that would have ended the current operation completely. Then too, Hamas refused and continued firing...

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Deputy director for research and research fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington DC