Jon Stewart took his politically engaged American satire to Cairo on Friday, appearing on a show hosted by the man known as “Egypt’s Jon Stewart”, who has faced investigation for insulting the president and Islam. Among barbs aimed at Egypt’s ruling Islamists and others, Stewart praised host Bassem Youssef for taking risks to poke fun….
Egyptian state prosecutors have imprisoned a man suspected of spying for Israel. The man was ordered held in prison for 15 days pending an investigation, the state-run MENA news agency reported Saturday. He is accused of working for Israel’s Mossad secret intelligence service since 2011. The alleged spy reportedly tried to disassociate himself from the…
Egyptian police blocked the crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday in protest against the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen, witnesses said. Officers strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded on both sides of the fence, locals told Reuters. Gunmen…
The American director of an overseas study program was stabbed outside the gates of the United States embassy in Cairo on Thursday. Chris Stone, head of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, was set upon by an attacker and seriously wounded. The injuries were later said to be not life-threatening. “We are all devastated by…
An American man was stabbed in the stomach outside the gates of the United States embassy in Cairo on Thursday, a security source said. The victim was in an “unstable condition” at a Cairo hospital and an Egyptian arrested over the attack had refused to give any details about his motive, the source told Reuters….
Two years ago, as the fragile beginnings of free expression swept through the Arab world, Arab media was compelled to reinvent itself. Messages sent through Twitter and other social media, videos uploaded to YouTube, blogs and photographs produced by “citizen journalists” — all served to bring energy and populist force to the uprisings and challenged…
In the first few days after the Boston bombings, liberal pundits (like David Sirota, Cenk Uygur and Michael Shure) were hoping aloud that the perpetrators would turn out to be “white” rather than Muslim or Middle Eastern, so that the incident wouldn’t further inflame grass-roots anti-Muslim passions. Well, it looks like this was a twofer…
Egypt’s tiny Jewish community, a frail remnant of a once flourishing minority, held a rare public ceremony on Thursday in memory of its veteran leader, Carmen Weinstein, but the country’s Islamist leaders stayed away. Weinstein, 82, died last Saturday at her home in Cairo where she was known over the past two decades for leading…
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