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AP Photo/Amr Nabil He didn’t know it, we didn’t know it, and they didn’t know it, but Mohamed Morsi planted a time bomb on September 6...

Protesters in Suez attempt to enter hospital to retrieve body of dead protester, January 26, 2011 Reuters/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany There...

June 16, 2015. AP Photo This upsetting photo of Ikhwan members sentenced to death by hanging dredged up a memory of another courtroom ...

The latest leaked recording of Egypt’s generals conferring in Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s office is the most damaging one yet. Earlier lea...

In the old days, when the Israeli military bombed and shelled Palestinians and sought to destroy their society, Hosni Mubarak used a wel...

(Anadolu Agency) When historians review this first year of Sisi’s rule, they will note that the military regime’s core priority was to...

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has certified his seizure of power with an electoral pantomime, and looks set to preside over a reconstructed Mubar...

Now that the Egyptian military has ousted the first elected president, installed a government of civilian executors, massacred the form...

An old and pernicious idea is back in circulation since the July 3 coup. It was a running theme in the military ruler’s speech on July ...

On the same day that Egyptian police shot dead at least 74 Muslim Brother demonstrators and wounded scores, the Interior Ministry re...

Rabaa Sit-in Mass Shootings, July 27 2013 (AP Photo) A non-exhaustive list of organized violence by military and/or police forces agai...

Muslim Brothers' Guidance Bureau It’s a small detail of great consequence. On July 3, members of the presidential guard stepped ...

If there were lingering doubts that the military pounced on the June 30 protests to re-establish its political supremacy, Gen. El-Sisi’s ...

I understand the outrage of honest citizens who went out to protest against Mohamed Morsi on June 30 only to have their efforts branded ...

Morsi’s opponents in the “National Salvation Front” have garnered plenty of criticism for being obstructionists, sore losers, or bad fa...

In his fatally belated public address on Thursday, Mohamed Morsi was a man reduced, reading awkwardly from an underwhelming script, mouth...

Tahrir Square, June 8 2012 It's real cause for celebration that the counter-revolution, with all its might, still failed to captur...

In normal times and places, elections are moments of emotional overdrive. Egypt’s extraordinary elections take that intensity...

(Reuters) These are no ordinary presidential elections that we’re about to experience in two weeks, and not just because they’re the ...