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Hundreds of Thousands protested in Tahrir Square in 2011. Buildings visible in the background include the Arab League headquarters, top left, and the Egyptian Museum, right center. (Credit: Pedro Ugarte/Agence France-Presse / Getty Images)

The Egyptian People vs. Muslim Brotherhood

In a few days, Egyptians will be celebrating the eleventh anniversary of the popular revolution that erupted on January 25th, 2011 and brought down the thirty-year-old dictatorship of Mubarak regime…

Dalia Ziada 21 January 2022
Egypt's Azhar Grand Imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb delivers a speech during an event in Abu Dhabi. (AFP)

The Untold Story of Al-Azhar and the Egyptian Revolution

It is hard to believe that eleven years have already passed since the tough, but inspiring, Arab Spring revolutions that forever changed the face of the Middle East. Although the triggers that…

Dalia Ziada 07 January 2022
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) listens as Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks during a US-Egypt strategic dialogue at the State Department in Washington, DC on November 8, 2021. (Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP)

US-Egypt Affairs Beyond the Strategic Dialogue

Time and experience have proven that Egypt is, by far, the most important strategic partner for the United States in the most complicated and misunderstood region of the Middle East. Although it took…

Dalia Ziada 12 November 2021
File Photo of MB’s Women gathering in support of former Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi near the Egyptian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey (Reuters)

Muslim Sisters: From Childbearing to Violent Jihad

The Muslim Brotherhood is, currently, struggling through one of the most shaking existential crises in its history. The fight between the elders over the ailing body of the group, which has not…

Dalia Ziada 29 October 2021
The timeworn political and jihadi cores of the Muslim Brotherhood have already started decaying since the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood from the highest peak of political power in Egypt, eight years ago.

The Withered Tree of the Muslim Brotherhood

One century after its foundation in a small town, eastern Egypt, the fall of the withered tree of the Muslim Brotherhood has become inevitable. However, to be realistic, this fall does not…

Dalia Ziada 15 October 2021
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US-Iran ceasefire unlikely to hold

07 April 2026

If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.

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The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

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Instead of the "no endless wars" they were promised, Americans were thrown into a disastrous war and were feeling the economic pinch at the gas pump

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Behind the truce: Pakistan mediation proves pivotal

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Islamabad is humming with behind-the-scenes diplomacy to turn this tentative pause into lasting peace.

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Palestinian executions are now official Israel policy

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