News interviews
Behind the Egypt-Israel October war: Q&A with Craig Daigle - Part 1
11 Oct 2012
Craig Daigle is a specialist on US-Middle East relations during the Cold War, focusing on American foreign policy in the context of the Arab-Israeli wars. His book, “The Limits of Detente: The United States, the Soviet Union and the...
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Q&A with Rajaa Ben Slama: Tunisia's Islamist-secular divide
16 Aug 2012
Raja Ben Slama, a professor of Arab civilization at Manouba University in Tunis, founder of The Tunisian Cultural Association to Defend Laicism, and an outspoken critic of political Islam, spoke to Egypt Independent on Tunisia's fierce...
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Syrian army killed children, used them as 'human shields,' says UN
12 Jun 2012
Syrian troops have tortured children, executed them and used children as young as eight as "human shields" during military raids against rebels, according to a UN report released Tuesday.
The United Nations branded the Syrian...
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Tantawi asks Egyptians to help secure runoff election
11 Jun 2012
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi held a meeting on Monday with military council deputy head Sami Anan and Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri to discuss procedures to secure the presidential runoff election.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s...
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Freed activist Ahmed Douma speaks of detention, new revolution
12 Apr 2012
Blogger and activist Ahmed Douma has been detained by security forces multiple times and was released from his most recent detention on Monday.
He had been remanded to custody for 30 days pending investigations into the violence that...
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Q&A with Febe Armanios: On the history of Coptic leadership
20 Mar 2012
It is hard for Egyptians to imagine a Coptic Church and papacy without the late Shenouda III, both because his 40-year leadership was the only one they had ever known, and because of the far-reaching changes he made in the church’s...
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Abu Ismail: Consensus candidate a conspiracy against Egyptians
19 Feb 2012
Al-Masry Al-Youm met with presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu Ismail, who expounded on his criticism of political deals surrounding presidential candidates and his positioning as an Islamist candidate in the map of political support from...
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NDI Egypt director says the organization will continue work
04 Feb 2012
When public prosecutors and gun-wielding Central Security Forces stormed the Cairo office of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in late December, they spent hours rummaging through the office, took some files and equipment, and...
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Q&A with Asef Bayat: 'Not yet a full-fledged revolution'
22 Jan 2012
Asef Bayat, a professor of sociology and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who previously taught at the American University in Cairo, has been studying social movements and revolutions in the Middle...
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Q&A Noam Chomsky: Dictatorships, US relations & state propaganda
28 Dec 2011
A darling of the left, Noam Chomsky is well-known for his articulate criticisms of US foreign policy. The American intellectual takes special interest in how the US coddles authoritarian regimes under threat, in particular when political...
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