GWOT: Egypt
Negar Azimi : US Foreign Policy
America's "war on terror" has strengthened Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's stranglehold on civil liberties.
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The Uninvited Guest
Roger Owen : History
Juan Cole's Napoleon's Egypt examines the little dictator's doomed attempt to occupy an Arab country.
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The CIA's Italian Job
Mohamad Bazzi : Civil Rights After 9/11
The story of Hassan Nasr, a victim of "extraordinary rendition" who was interrogated and tortured in Egypt for four years, is finally being told.
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Bloggers Against Torture
Negar Azimi : Internet & New Media
In Egypt, bloggers have cracked into a tightly sealed state monopoly on information dissemination.
2006
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Naguib Mahfouz: An Appreciation
Laila Lalami : Books, Literature, & Ideas
Egypt has been deprived of its greatest living writer, and the world has lost one of its most humane literary figures.
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Adrift in Egypt
A brutal raid on an encampment of refugees in Cairo has focused the world's attention on the netherworld Sudanese occupy in Egypt.
2003
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Egypt's Islamist Dilemma
Militant leaders now preach peace, but they may have won the ideological war.
2002
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Justice Denied in Egypt
Ibrahim's conviction and sentence is a savage parody of justice.
This week: A look at the advocacy group MoveOn.org at 10. Plus: Controversy in Africa over the indictment of the Sudanese President; Amy Alexander and Chris Rabb on the challenges facing minority journalists in their transition to the web; and The Nation's new sex column. (13mb mp3)
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