September 01, 2008

Egyptian delegation to break Gaza siege

The plan, as described on Hamas's website here, could be huge. It will almost certainly have a much bigger impact than the two-small-ship siege-busting effort undertaken from Europe last month....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:02 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

April 07, 2008

Serious unrest in US ally, Egypt

Ever since the Washington managed to broker the 1978 Camp David agreement between Egypt and Israel, Egypt has played a huge role in American military planning in the Middle East....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:47 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

March 31, 2008

Human Rights Watch opposes Egypt's political arrests

Kudos to Human Rights Watch for having issued a strong statement criticizing the Egyptian government’s continuing mass round-up of opposition activists and would-be candidates. This campaign, HRW said, "puts the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:59 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

March 20, 2008

Problems inside Egypt's ruling party?

Egypt's landmark local elections are coming up April 8. As noted in my 'Delicious' comments over recent weeks, the Mubarak regime has gone to great lengths to prevent representatives of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:26 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

March 10, 2008

Support democratic principles in Egypt!

Reuters is reporting from Cairo that Egypt's biggest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood says that only 50 or 60 of the thousands of its members who have tried to register...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:19 PM | Fulltext link (13 comments)

March 08, 2008

Progress in the Gaza ceasefire talks?

The western MSM has been fixated on Thursday's tragic, unjustifiable killings of eight students at a West Jerusalem yeshiva (Jewish religious school), and to a lesser extent on the effect...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:25 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

February 11, 2008

Congratulations, Egypt and Abu Treika!

Egypt's national football (soccer) team won the African Nations Cup final in Ghana last night. Huge congratulations to them and to their scorer! Muhammad Abu Treika (no. 22). Abu Treika...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:25 AM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

February 09, 2008

Mubarak on the Gaza question

This is the English-language version of an interview conducted on January 30th with Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak by two correspondents from Italy's La Repubblica. A very well-informed person tells me...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:52 PM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

January 31, 2008

Al-Ahram Weekly on Egypt and Gaza

I've been unbelievably busy with the galley-proofs (or whatever they call today's functional equivalent of them) of my book. Five chapters down, and two to finish tomorrow... Meanwhile, I see...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:07 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

February 23, 2007

Interview with Dr. Abdel Monem Abul-Futouh

Posted by Helena Cobban at 05:37 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 22, 2007

Egyptian blogging on trial

The trial of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer, who is on trial for his writings criticizing Egypt's al-Azhar religious authorities, Islam and President Husni Mubarak, resumes in his home town of...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:50 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

February 21, 2007

Notes from Cairo, #3

I have been incredibly busy, "uploading" information and impressions from here in Egypt into my brain, renewing old acquaintances here, making new ones, rushing around in general. My daughter-- and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:36 AM | Fulltext link (20 comments)

February 17, 2007

Interview with Dr. Issam el-Arian

Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:42 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

Notes from Cairo, #2

I have gathered such a lot of great material from my time here in Egypt so far that it has been a challenge for me to figure out how to...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:55 AM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

February 08, 2007

Sunni Arab view of US-Iran Tensions

If jwn readers and our generous host will pardon me, I (Scott) wish to draw early attention to Helena Cobban's important column in today's Christian Science Monitor. Writing from Cairo,...
Posted by Scott Harrop at 12:01 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

April 16, 2006

Violence and tragedy in Egypt

Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:22 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

February 08, 2004

Luxor fun

We had a totally awesome three days checking out various tombs and ancient temples in Luxor. I got back to Cairo yesterday, and started pulling together the raw materials for...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:44 AM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

February 03, 2004

Posting from Egypt

I'm traveling in Egypt this week. Not sure how much I'll actually learn about What Egyptians Think, since we're doing mainly touristy stuff (Luxor, etc.) And I am not the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 12:08 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)