FIDEL CASTRO MUBARAK'S FATE IS SEALED "HISTORY IS LOOKING DOWN UPON US"

"HISTORY IS LOOKING DOWN UPON US"MUBARAK'S FATE IS SEALEDBy FIDEL CASTROFebruary 3, 2011Mubarak’s fate is sealed, not even the support of the United States will be able to save his government. The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. “From the top of these pyramids, 40 centuries of history are looking down upon us,” Bonaparte once said in a moment of exaltation when the revolution...

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AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY REVOLUTION

AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY REVOLUTIONPosted on Feb 2, 2011By E.J. Dionne, Jr. The democratic uprising in Egypt has brought into relief a gradual and little-noticed transformation in American politics. Over the last decade, ideological divisions over the role of democracy and human rights in American foreign policy have been scrambled. In the meantime, President Obama has restored foreign policy realism to the White House, giving a liberal gloss to what had traditionally been a conservative disposition. This mildly liberal realism explains...

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CHALLENGING AMERICA'S PHARAOH

A REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND THE FUTURE OF EGYPTIAN (IN)DEPENDENCECHALLENGING AMERICA'S PHARAOHBy DAVID H. PRICEFebruary 3, 2011Anyone who has lived in Egypt for an extended period of time or has traveled there for extended stays over the past thirty years should not be surprised at the current uprising. The only surprising thing is that this uprising didn’t happen years or decades sooner. I first visited Egypt in the summer of 1982, just half a year after the assassination of Sadat. I was twenty-two years old and had little understanding of...

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THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING IN THE AMERICAN MEDIABy JOSHUA FAROUK GEORGYFebruary 3, 2011It has been one week since the Egyptian revolt began, and the mainstream American media has wheeled out many of their standard, self-appointed “experts” to illuminate matters. They attempt to solve the riddle of what could possibly have driven the thoughtless throngs into the proverbial “Arab streets,” while providing their set of contrived scenarios about how things might develop. Even as our “experts” set about to demystify what they themselves have mystified, they...

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A FLAT FOR MOHAMMED

A FLAT FOR MOHAMMEDPosted on Feb 2, 2011By Richard ReevesTen years ago, one of our sons, Colin O’Neill, and I were walking across the Qasr el Nil bridge in Cairo late at night from Tahrir Square—Liberation Square—to the island of Gezira in the Nile. As he began the story:"We were approached by a couple of guys about my age who looked as if they were selling something. Actually, they just wanted to talk—in English and French. They were cousins, both of them language teachers in private schools. The four of us, leaning out over the bridge, talked...

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TAHRIR SQUARE BATTLEGROUND: 'THESE PEOPLE TRIED TO SLAUGHTER US LAST NIGHT'

TAHRIR SQUARE BATTLEGROUND: 'THESE PEOPLE TRIED TO SLAUGHTER US LAST NIGHT'Anti-Mubarak protesters in Cairo fight to hold square littered with bricks and burnt-out vehicles after night of bloodshedPeter Beaumont and Jack Shenker in Cairo guardian.co.uk, Thursday 3 February 2011 15.52 GMT They were barely visible at first, a glimmer of tan clothing among the ranks of pro-Mubarak fighters lined on a low overpass above the entrance to Tahrir Square....

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