Category: Blogs

Brotherhood’s Presidential Bid Divides Egypt’s Islamists / الإخوان يثيرون انقساما بين الإسلاميين بالترشح للرئاسة

By Magdy Samaan

The Brotherhood’s decision to run for the presidency has thrown an unexpected wrench in an already unpredictable presidential race, creating tensions and divisions within the Islamist political movement. Al-Shater’s entry into a field of candidates that already includes three Islamists could split the Islamist vote. In addition to Khairat al-Shater, the Brotherhood’s deputy Supreme Guide, […]

Europe has yet to make Europeans

By Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times

From Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times:  The construction of a group identity typically takes generations. But Europe’s politicians no longer have the luxury of time.

Top News: Court Suspends Constituent Assembly Over Constitutional Challenge

By Mara Revkin

The High Administrative Court suspended the constituent assembly on April 10 after ruling in favor of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the assembly’s formation.

US Returning to Security Council To Protect Syrians, Says Burns

By Barbara Slavin

Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns is a rare breed in Washington — a career foreign-service officer in a job typically held by political appointees and a man esteemed by both Democrats and Republicans. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who kept Burns on as undersecretary of state and then promoted him to his current job […]

Pentagon to fast-track cyberweapons acquisition

By Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post

From Ellen Nakashima, the Washington Post:  The Pentagon is planning to dramatically speed up the development of new cyberweapons, giving it the ability in some cases to field weapons against specific targets in a matter of days, according to a new Pentagon report to Congress.

Turkey considering unilateral action in Syria and possible NATO protection

By Abdullah Bozkurt, Today's Zaman

Top News: Mubarak VP to Run for President

By Mara Revkin

On April 6, former vice president and head of intelligence Omar Suleiman announced that he will run for president, reneging on an earlier decision to drop out of the race.

The Government’s Three Cyber Silences

By Jason Healey

The threat of Chinese espionage is so critical that the commander of our military cyber defenses has called it the “the biggest transfer of wealth through theft and piracy in the history of mankind.”

Spring Without Flowers: Are Women Being Left Behind By Egypt’s Transition?

By Dalia Ziada

It is not a secret that Egypt’s democratic transition in general is hardly moving forward, slowed down and thrown off course by a seemingly endless series of challenges ranging from military’s failure in running the transitional phase, the purposeful undermining of the civil society, to the misbehavior of political Islamists, who seem determined to curb […]