Scores of people were injured in weekend clashes in Cairo after opposition activists clashed with Islamists who were rallying on behalf of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed Morsi. At stake are efforts by the Egyptian judiciary to limit and block a series of power grabs by Morsi designed to centralize...

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Senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian has linked the Boston terror attack, the war in Mali, the war in Syria, and the war in Iraq to unnamed sinister forces that control the media and “funded the violence.” El-Erian was careful to phrase his accusations — posted in Arabic to his...

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Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef – arrested last month for insulting Islam and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President Mohamed Morsi – triggered a new round of controversy over the weekend with a sketch in which he compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the Nazis. In his Saturday sketch, Youssef, who is regularly described as...

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A new poll [PDF] released late Friday by the Arab American Institute shows that American views on Egypt and on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood have plummeted to their lowest in at least twenty years: For most of the past two decades, American opinion of Egypt has been overwhelmingly favorable. In the...

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A foreigner to entering Egypt earlier this week might think he had reached some sort of Middle Eastern paradise. On Wednesday, Egyptian news sites and TV stations devoted extensive coverage to the joint press conference between Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani and his Egyptian counterpart Hesham Kandil. Al-Thani...

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Authorities in Egypt may be preparing to pile on new charges against a popular satirist referred to as “Egypt’s Jon Stewart.” Bassem Youssef was detained last week on allegations of insulting both Islam and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, triggering an international outcry that publicly pitted the Muslim Brotherhood against the U.S. State...

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One needn’t romanticize this week’s West Bank unrest. It wasn’t exactly a spontaneous outburst of rage – rather, the three funerals held recently were a pre-planned set piece for the stone-throwing that followed. Near Tulkarem, and in Hebron, two teenagers were laid to rest, having been hit by IDF fire while throwing...

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The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is using its Twitter feed to lash out against President Obama, the U.S. embassy in Cairo, and American policy in general. At stake are criticisms leveled by U.S. officials in response to the arrest of Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef on charges of insulting Islam and...

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Political, economic, and diplomatic missteps have left Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi and his government scrambling to contain interlinked crises that threaten to turn the country into a failed state. A series of power grabs early after Morsi’s election – which saw the Muslim Brotherhood-linked president and his allies centralize power and push...

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Barack Obama has traveled a long way over the past four years in his Middle East policy. In other words: The Mideast has traveled a long way since the president took office. The tête-à-tête vis-à-vis Israel has now become hugs and kisses, and Obama is gradually bidding adieu to his...

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