Author Archives: Nate Wright

In his op-ed in Egypt Independent on Saturday, Bahey el-Din Hassan lays out a theory on how Scaf let the US-Egypt NGO funding row explode into a major diplomatic incident. The summary: they are unable to understand the meaning of … Continue reading →

The Arabist has just published some reflections of mine on the changing space of Cairo’s street protests today and what it might mean for activists fighting military rule. Read it here.

The New York Times has a lengthy piece by Robert Worth about Mohamed el-Beltagy, a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood. If you’re wondering about the Brotherhood and what they will mean for Egypt, read it. Beltagy may be a … Continue reading →

Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel has just put up my latest piece about how Cairo is becoming a hub for Syrian opposition activists managing the logistics of supplying protests within the country. It’s an interesting look at how, though Turkey … Continue reading →

Despite calling a press conference to announce election results last night, Egypt’s High Electoral Commission still hasn’t released the full results for either list or independent votes. Still, there are a lot of preliminary numbers being leaked to media in … Continue reading →

The Times’ Middle East Correspondent, James Hider, flew in Thursday to cover the protests, leaving me more time to wander aimlessly and take it in. Today was, I think, a day of divisions, however many people there were down at … Continue reading →

A truce that was negotiated in the early hours of Thursday morning has held all day. It was strengthened when the military brought in a crane, which erected a barrier of large cement blocks on the street where the fiercest … Continue reading →

Protesters have been fighting battles with police forces near Tahrir square for more than 100 hours. These are not sporadic clashes that break out from time to time. The battle is a constant flow of people and munitions. Demonstrators surge … Continue reading →

Today I saw protesters standing their ground again and again for the first time since I arrived in July. There’s real determination on the streets today. It’s not demonstration-as-political-maneuver. It’s real anger, unguided by strategy. If protesters can hold the … Continue reading →

Jadaliyya.com has put up a number of excellent bios on prominent figures in the Egyptian electoral landscape. Worth reading for those following the elections closely. Edit – Just noticed they also detail parties and movements, and electoral laws.