Arab World

If the Egyptian military and judicial elite thought that they could use the youthful Rebellion Movement, which put three or four million demonstrators in the streets a week and a half ago, to restore the status quo before the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, they probably miscalculated. Rebellion denounced as “dictatorial” interim president Adly Mansour’s Monday […]

Egypt

Egypt: A People’s Revolution, Not a Crisis or Coup (Nawal El Saadawi)

Juan Cole

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi writes at IslamiCommentary (translated by miriam cooke) Every revolution in history has had its counter-revolution. Most recently, internal and external forces allied, as they did in Egypt, to abort the January 2011 revolution. But the Muslim Brotherhood failed to abort this latest revolution on June 30, 2013, and they […]

Egypt

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Calls for ‘Uprising’ as Plan for Elections is Announced

Juan Cole

The killing of over 50 Egyptians outside the Republican Guards Barracks on Monday morning continued to roil the country on Monday, as the Freedom and Justice Party, the civil wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, called for an “uprising” against the interim government. The word used for ‘uprising,’ intifada, is the same word used by Palestinians […]

Egypt

Egypt: Over 50 dead in Brotherhood-Army Clash; Baha-al-Din proposed PM; Thousands support Gov’t

Juan Cole

Update: The death toll in the deadly incident outside the Republican Guards barracks in Cairo has risen to over 50, with 300 wounded. Firm details of how the clash began are still not available. The pro-Brotherhood press, such as Aljazeera, is calling it a premeditated military massacre of peaceful praying civilians. The Egyptian military maintains […]

Egypt

Egypt: 8 Wounded in Clashes as Salafi Fundamentalists Object to Elbaradei as PM

Juan Cole

Amid a general calming on Saturday in Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula remained a hot spot, when a gas pipeline was bombed, probably by Muslim radicals who have announced an insurrection against the military after it deposed President Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. Likewise in Sinai, a Coptic Christian priest was shot dead. Some Muslim […]

Egypt

Brotherhood, Army risk Civil War: 30 Dead, Hundreds Wounded

Juan Cole

Egypt veered sharply toward the looming specter of civil war on Friday, as the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood continued to call for resistance to the overthrow of Muhammad Morsi, who had been the elected head of state before the army deposed him on Wednesday. On Thursday, the military had arrested the Supreme Guide of […]

Egypt

Egypt: One Soldier Dead, 3 Wounded, as Muslim Brotherhood Clashes with Army, Secularists in Provinces

Juan Cole

The markets in Egypt reacted with sheer joy to the Egyptian Revolution 3.0, with the Egyptian stock market rising 7% and adding billions to the economy. Deposed president Muhammad Morsi was considered a poor steward of the economy, and tourism, electricity and services had deteriorated in the year he was president. But whether the transitional […]

Egypt

Egypt’s “Revocouption” and the future of Democracy on the Nile

Juan Cole

The argument over whether what happened in Egypt on Wednesday, July 3, was a coup or a revolution is really an argument over the legitimacy of the actions taken. If it was a revolution, it was perhaps a manifestation of the popular will, and so would have a sort of Rousseauan legitimacy. If it was […]

Egypt

Fourth of July Comes a Day Early to Cairo after Fundamentalist President is Removed (video)

Juan Cole

RT has video: