Cairo (Egypt)

Mona Eltahawy--Writer, Talking Head, and Activist--Willingly Steps into the Crossfire

Agent Provocateur

Middle East Feast at El Omda

Morocco has a hand in this Egyptian menu

Naseer Shamma and Al-Oyoun Ensemble

Rightbloggers Turn Benghazi Truthers, Spin Egypt, Libya Riots As Obama Treason

Last week, upon learning that an anti-Islamic film existed, extremists in several Arab cities rampaged, and in Benghazi killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton denounced both the violence and the film, and Libyan authorities apprehended so ... More >>

Baseball Predictions Are Much Better In Hindsight

​Suppose you brought all the smartest baseball kids on the block together, locked them in a house for two weeks with an unlimited supply of Twinkies and beer, and asked them to pool all their statistical tools to predict the upcoming baseball season? What might the result look like? SBNation's J ... More >>

Silence of the Hams: The Artist Joyfully Resurrects Hollywood's Past

UC Davis Chancellor Announces Pepper Spray Review; Japan Earthquake; Violent Protests in Egypt

After footage of a police officer dousing students with pepper spray went viral, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi announced she is forming a "task force" to look into the incident. She told CNN, "We really want to look into this very carefully and take action ... make sure that it will never happen ... More >>

Reno Air Crash Kills 3; States Oppose AT&T Merger; UAW and GM Reach Agreement

​At least three people died yesterday when a plane at an air race in Reno, Nevada crashed near a grandstand. Jimmy Leeward was piloting a P-51 Mustang at the National Championship Air Races and Air Show when he lost control of the aircraft. Witnesses say he managed to pull up before impact, pr ... More >>

Israeli Ambassador Airlifted Out of Egypt; Japanese Man Questioned About Air Force One Leak; State of Emergency Declared in Texas

Scenes from Springtime anti-Mubarak protests​Israel airlifted its ambassador out of their Cairo embassy after protesters swarmed the building, the Washington Post reports. Protests have been growing after the deaths of three Egyptian border guards who were killed by Israeli troops who say they ... More >>

NYC Is No Longer The City That Never Sleeps

​In fact, it didn't even rank in the top 10 of badoo.com's survey of the world's most nocturnal, jazzing-till-dawn cities. Number 10 was Buenos Aires 9--Seville 8--Valencia 7--Barcelona

Muslims? They're Just Like Us!

Q&A: Nader Sadek On Wearing Deicide T-Shirts In Cairo And Humanity's Oil-Fueled Pursuit Of Its Own Destruction

Egypt-born visual artist Nader Sadek has been bringing the worlds of avant-garde art and extreme metal together for several years. His 2007 installation Faceless arose out of his experiences living as a metalhead in Cairo, and combined oddly Edward Gorey-ish drawings of a niqab-clad woman standing ... More >>

Lara Logan Speaks on Her Sexual Assault in Egypt

Lara Logan in Cairo​As the deaths of photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Honros sadly reminded us last week, journalists continue to face dangers all over the globe, and especially in the volatile Middle East, where a rash of uprisings have created historic opportunities to capture news, ... More >>

Study Abroad, At Home

For New York archaeology students, a planned semester studying ruins in Egypt turned into a round trip back to Manhattan

LIFE, SHOT-BY-SHOT

A picture says a thousand words

Mubarak Steps Down in Announcement From Vice President Omar Suleiman

​Hosni Mubarak, president of Egypt for three decades, "has waived the office of president," said Vice President Omar Suleiman in a speech that lasted less than a minute at 6:00 p.m. local Egypt time today, Friday February 11, 2011, eighteen days after massive protests started in Cairo. The arm ... More >>

Google Exec Free in Egypt; Protest Numbers Fall Some as Media Fatigue Starts to Set In

​Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing executive in charge of the Middle Eastern and North African regions, who jumped into the Egyptian protests only to be snatched up by government authorities, is now safe and free, tweeting Monday around 8 p.m. Cairo time, "Freedom is a bless that deserves figh ... More >>

Cairo Muslims to Protect Christians During Mass; Mystery Hero Saves Woman From Subway Tracks (Sunday Links)

via ReutersHey everyone. It's looking like a nice Sunday out there! Not that you're even reading this, because today's the Super Bowl. You morons. Today in Egypt: the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group long banned by Egyptian authorities, is joining other opposition groups in meeting with Vice P ... More >>

Egypt Protests Continue for 12th Day; NYC May Double Number of Failing Schools (Weekend Links)

via Al JazeeraMorning, sunshines! Today will be relatively warm with a high of 38, but we can't seem to get away from that wintry mix. Protests in Egypt are entering their 12th day today after yesterday's "Day of Departure." Al Jazeera reports that the morning has been peaceful, although the milita ... More >>

Kenneth Cole Caught in Uproar, But Give Him a Break

​I remember presenting at an awards show that was so badly organized and boring I couldn't help cracking to the audience, "The people in Haiti are luckier than we are right now. At least they're not here!" This was in the middle of devastating earthquakes, by the way. Am I proud of that rema ... More >>

Watch for Falling Ice; Unemployment Claims Drop Again; NYC Real Estate on the Up

​• The wintry mix has ended, but ice is now falling from buildings. Your next snow hit will happen on Saturday. In the meantime, it's mostly sunny, and chilly. Elsewhere, the country continues to deal with the aftermath of this week's "historic" storm. [NYT, Weather, CNN] • Violence conti ... More >>

Egypt Update: March of Millions Planned For Tuesday; Plus, Where to Read More

With the government curfew lifted and military roadblocks encircling the city of Cairo, Tuesday is shaping up to be the biggest day of protest yet as the ongoing general strike may top one million marchers tomorrow, according to organizers hoping to oust President Hosni Mubarak. Al Jazeera English ( ... More >>

Egyptian Protests Continue; Al Jazeera Cairo Bureau Shut Down; Sudanese Students Protest in Khartoum (Weekend Links)

via Reuters​The latest out of Egypt: thousands of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square are demonstrating, even though the military is firing shots into the air to scare them off. New protests are also being reported in Alexandria Suez. Yesterday, Pres. Mubarak appointed Omar Suleiman (whom the Time ... More >>

One Thousand Egyptians Storm Interior Ministry; Death Toll in Revolts May Have Broken 90; New Protests in Yemen and Jordan

via CNNThe Middle East is getting absolutely bonkers. There's a lot going on right now and it's moving really fast, so Weekend Links are going to be a little Egypt-centric today. Al Jazeera is reporting that around 1,000 Egyptians have stormed the interior ministry in Cairo; they're also reporting t ... More >>

Egyptian Protesters Continue to Clash With Police; WikiLeaks Releases Egypt Cables

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Egypt have been strained and "delicate" for years, according to new cables released by the government-bearing organization WikiLeaks on Friday morning, as protests in Cairo turned violent. Thousands are braving police violence, including the use of ... More >>

Egyptians Hosed During Prayer; Protests Continue; President Mubarak Reportedly Flees

By way of YouTube, Mohamed Ibrahim Elmasry shares this video of protesters in Cairo today. The chaos and tension is palpable. At one point those praying were actually hosed by police.

Anonymous Threatens Egypt Amid Protests

​Anonymous, the amorphous, anarchistic hacker group best known for their constant targeting of Scientology, as well as less admirable pranks like flooding YouTube with porn, have set their sights on the Egyptian government, per a new Anonymous press release. Days of unrest in the north African ... More >>

Did Egypt Shut Down the Internet?

​As Egyptian protesters continue to demonstrate against government corruption in Cairo, we hear that BlackBerry Internet access in the country has been blocked. Via The Arabist [Update: as of 11 p.m. the site was giving a "connection interrupted" page load error], I just received a call from ... More >>

Egypt Blocks Twitter During Protest

​Likely emboldened by the recent uprising in Tunisia, which took down longstanding dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, thousands of Egyptians are protesting today in Cairo against a general lack of freedoms, and more specifically, the horrific murder of Khaled Said (warning: graphic image) by p ... More >>

Cairo's Trash Collectors Face Extinction in Garbage Dreams

Cairo Station

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, a Deadpan Bond Parody

Or, rather, a Jean Bruce parody. Same thing, basically

Damien Hirst's Shark, Georges Seurat's Drawings, Scott Hug's Celebrity Silkscreens

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

No Context: Death Metal and Burkas

Picture This

An unsentimental journey through this season's most stylish, sinful coffee-table books

The Challenger

For Egypt's opposition, reforms change little, and America is still the 'kiss of death'

Tut, Tut!

Escape From Sudan

In Egypt, Africans fleeing a genocide find protection, and little else

Torrents of Arabia

Islamic severity vs. belly-dancing tradition: Fest honors Egyptian auteur and successors

East Via Shortwave

Sun City Girls tune their static into freaky Asian frequencies, keep changing the channel

Flashlight on the Potomac

The Middle East, Still Dark in Bush's Gaze

Fringe Dancers Pour Their Hearts Into International Styles

The Hours

Collecting Mexican Women Poets

After Saddam, The Music

Iraq's Divided Pop World Awaits Life in the War's Wake

The Year in Queer

What Went Down in the Cabaret of Contradictions

Salaam

Hate Crimes

Like the Taliban, America’s Middle East Allies Tyrannize Gays and Women

The Jerusalem Problem

Defending Edward Said

World Affairs

Consumer Guide