Rozina Ali
Rozina Ali is senior
editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs.
From 2010 to 2013, she served as deputy editor at the Economist Intelligence
Unit in New York. She has contributed to Al Jazeera America, Foreign Policy, Guardian, New York Times, and Salon. On Twitter: @rozina_ali.
Oriental Hall, etc.Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo. Read More
Oriental Hall, Etc.Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo. Read More
Reimagining LimitsSince Ezzedine Choukri Fishere began publishing fiction in 1995, he has come out with six novels exploring themes from freedom and destiny to identity; critics have viewed his work as indictments against repression, injustice and suffering in Egypt. Read More
Oriental Hall, etc.Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo. Read More
The Struggle for Iraq’s FutureDoes the rise of Islamic extremism prove that Iraqi democracy was doomed to fail? Read More
Oriental Hall, etc.Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo. Read More
Desert FloweringSaudi Arabia made its first-ever submission of a film for an Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards in Hollywood. Wadjda, which was submitted in the Best Foreign Film category, failed to earn a nomination, but it made history as the first feature movie to be filmed entirely in the country. Read More
Oriental Hall, etc.Happenings, speakers, and events at the American University in Cairo. Read More
Damage ControlA political prisoner freed. An affidavit documenting police abuse. An audience with lawmakers. When Egyptians rose up in 2011, human rights campaigner Heba Morayef dared to hope that such incremental accomplishments were giving way to freedom and democracy. But the dream didn’t last for long. Read More
Democracy versus SecuritySimplifying Egypt into the narrow dualism of ‘us versus them,’ the military has re-established a dominant role for itself on Egypt’s political stage, one that has gone largely unchallenged by the Egyptian public. Read More
Texts: Tunisia’s Political TransitionIn Tunisia, where the Arab Spring uprisings began in 2010, the National Constituent Assembly voted 200 to 12 with four abstentions on January 26, 2014, to approve a new constitution. The full text of the document. Read More
A Better CitizenMahmoud El-Gamal will be forever nostalgic about his days as an economics undergraduate at the American University in Cairo. In July, he became the university’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. Read More