Intolerance in Egypt
By Nir Boms Published July 5, 2006 Last week, Egypt’s minister of culture, Farouk Hosni, announced the latest measure in the war against intolerance in Egypt: a total ban on “The…
Egypt’s New ‘Democracy’
By Nir Boms/ Michael Meunier Published November 21, 2005 Barely a month following President Hosni Mubarak’s predictable re-election, Egypt finds itself in full campaign mode again.…
Egypt’s Presidential Elections
1/28/2005 By Nir Boms and Aaron Mannes With international attention focused on the Palestinian and Iraqi elections, the October presidential referendum in Egypt will be little more than a…
Reforms, Freedom in Egypt
By Nir Boms and Michael Meunier Published November 4, 2004 Egypt has gone through 26 years of single-party rule, during which unemployment has risen to 25 percent. Regime opponents have been…