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During the revolution in Egypt, Coptic Christians in Tahrir Square held hands around Muslims conducting Friday prayers to protect them from surprise attack. Why aren't we doing the same here in the United States?
Will the women who risked all to bring down a government find that all they got for their bravery and sacrifice was a shuffling of oppressors?
The peaceful protesters in Egypt's Tahrir Square succeeded where years of jihadi bloodshed have not produced a single political change. This is a profound anti-jihadi lesson -- it would seem God is really on the side of the people.
A small group of us LGBT activists went to Madison today to join the tens of thousands of people from there and around the region standing up for unio...
For two long centuries, the Arab Middle East has struggled to meet the challenge of modernity, a task exacerbated by the lingering, and increasing, dissonance between the glorious past and the shameful present.
The Egyptian Revolution is not over, but the period of feel-good flag-waving may be. What I witnessed today was the first time the military has turned decisively against protesters, who are themselves now becoming divided.
With the exception of weekly demonstrations in Tahrir Square to commemorate the martyrs of the revolution, a relative calm has settled over Cairo. The only discernible change is that overnight everyone has become a political pundit.
Extraordinary winds of change are blowing through the Arab world. It is huge news, so let's treat it with the professionalism and independence a truly monumental event deserves.
This is a question that draws its energy from a deep concern. To ask: "Do we have a common God?" is to worry: "Can we live together without bloodshed?"
Faced with the terrifying prospect of another Tahrir Square, the Iranian regime is choosing from a list of bad options. The next few weeks will be extremely important.
Suddenly, it is the young activists of Tahrir who are the example for the world, while the great powers seem mired in old thinking and outdated systems.
Though women played a critical role during last month's protests, their future as stakeholders in Egypt's political process is being marginalized.
To sum up, the long pent-up grievances of the Arab/Muslim world are exploding not just in the faces of local dictators such as Mubarak of Egypt but, perhaps more importantly, against their neocolonial/imperial patrons abroad.
Tahrir represents an accelerated process of political maturation that has had the effect, among other things, of cooling and beginning to contain Egyptian anti-Semitism in both its official and popular forms.
As an American it's not my place to say what's best for Iraqis. Never was. But if money talks, a fortune of dinars and dollars tell us that Iraqi democracy is rife with thievery and corruption.
The influence of the new digital commons in democratic uprisings has been chronicled at length. But the importance of a much older form of commons has earned scant attention: the public spaces.
It was long overdue. The government body known derisively as Egypt's Ministry of Disinformation has ceased to exist. The country's new interim cabin...
Social media as a formal means of communication works in isolation and can only congeal with forward momentum when there's a place to go.
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