[caption id="attachment_55233875" align="alignnone" width="594"] Egyptian writer Khaled Al-Khamissi [/caption]Khaled al-Khamissi is an Egyptian who was once hailed as the man who “predicted the…

[caption id="attachment_55233855" align="alignnone" width="620"] President Obama (credit: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)[/caption]Presidential elections in the United States are a disgraceful…

[caption id="attachment_55233828" align="alignnone" width="620"] Clint Eastwood speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention [/caption]The spectral void that haunted the…

[caption id="attachment_55233808" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A demonstrator shouts slogans during a protest calling for the respect of women's rights and other fundamental rights on August 13,…

[caption id="attachment_55233784" align="aligncenter" width="620"] The Syrian flag flies in Damascus during a pro-government rally in February 2012[/caption]As Syria faces its eighteen month of…

[caption id="attachment_55233749" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Ahmed Mourad was Egypt’s official presidential photographer for ten years[/caption]When it comes to glad-handing dictators, Ahmed…

[caption id="attachment_55233649" align="alignnone" width="650"] Robert D. Kaplan[/caption]American journalist, Robert D. Kaplan, recently wrote an opinion piece for the US security intelligence firm…

[caption id="attachment_55233608" align="alignnone" width="620"] Bedouin squat over a hilly area overlooking Gaza, in Rafah city, north Sinai[/caption]We had just finished interviewing a Bedouin…

[caption id="attachment_55233601" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, meets with Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi,and Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Hussein…

[caption id="attachment_55233586" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Egyptian military trucks loaded with light tanks line up in El-Arish ahead of an operation to restore security in northern Sinai on…