Egypt News Balancing Goals in Egypt Proves Tricky for U.S. Yomna Yasser Aug 18, 2013 0 Pro-coup demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir Square were given a tangible reminder of America’s long-standing support…
Egypt News Egypt Braced for Renewed Protests Yomna Yasser Aug 16, 2013 0 The Egyptian capital Cairo is poised for renewed protests by supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi. They are…
Egypt News In Trying To Save Egypt, The Military And The Brotherhood May Destroy It Yomna Yasser Jul 31, 2013 0 Abdel Hamid Madi lies in a bed in the al-Tamin al-Sahy Hospital, close to the Islamist sit-in at the Rabaa…
Egypt News Egypt Must Not Rely on Its Army to Bring Democracy Yomna Yasser Jul 31, 2013 0 Scarcely a month after the coup d’état that brought down President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood,…
Blogging Egypt: As Impoverished Crowds Gather in Support Of Morsi, Well-Heeled March Behind Their… Yomna Yasser Jul 28, 2013 0 Hundreds of thousands of people turned out outside Cairo’s Rabaa mosque yesterday to protest against the coup…
Egypt News Egypt’s Military Should Hear from Obama Administration Yomna Yasser Jul 27, 2013 0 Twenty-Three days after a military coup, carried out in the name of preserving democracy in Egypt, thousands of…
Egypt News Some Egyptians Look for ‘Third Square’ to Resist Islamists, Army Yomna Yasser Jul 27, 2013 0 As hundreds of thousands of Egyptians crammed into dueling rallies in different parts of Cairo on Friday,…
Egypt News Egyptian Presidency: ‘Our War on Terrorism’ Doesn’t Breach Human Rights Yomna Yasser Jul 27, 2013 0 The office of Egypt’s interim president, Adly Mansour, has praised mass demonstrations in Tahrir Square on Friday…
Egypt News Egypt’s Generals Back in Favor after First Flawed Transition Yomna Yasser Jul 26, 2013 0 When Egypt's army was last in charge, little more than a year ago, 27-year-old artist Mohamed Haroun painted a…
Blogging Egypt, Repression or Reconciliation? When Egyptians Are Right and Wrong Yomna Yasser Jul 26, 2013 0 In Egypt, a country that is terribly polarized and dangerously tense, facts get in the way. Each side claims their…