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A worker walks near his camel as he waits for tourists at the Giza pyramids area, south of Cairo, February 20, 2014. A militant Islamist group has warned tourists to leave Egypt and threatened to attack any who stay after Feb. 20, raising the prospect of a new front in a fast-growing insurgency in the […]

Opinion: Americans must never ask themselves, ‘Who Lost Egypt?’

by Ziad Asali | Mar 1, 2014 | Opinion

After 4,500 years, the great pyramids of Giza are the only surviving wonder of the ancient world. The armies of Persia, the Hyksos, Alexander the Great, Rome, the Arabs, the Ottomans and the British camped in their shadow. It was in Egypt, that melting pot of Asian,...

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Egyptian anti-goverment demonstrators wave Egyptian flags at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on February 10, 2011 on the 17th day of protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Thousands more Egyptian demonstrators joined a mounting tide of protest against Mubarak’s regime despite stark threats of a government crackdown. (PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

Opinion: The Road to the Arab Civil State

by Ziad Asali | Feb 9, 2014 | Opinion

After decades of sustained oppression, Arab popular and political culture suddenly tried to assert its full mental and emotional capacities during the recent uprisings that led to the collapse of several tyrannical regimes in the region. The shift to being so abrupt,...