Aeon
May 2013
On the lives of street kids.
Egypt
9 articles
New Yorker
Sep 2002
A profile of Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian doctor who became Bin Laden’s #2 and has now taken over Al-Qaeda.
New York Review of Books
Mar 2011
On the structural underpinnings of the revolts currently shaking the Arab world.
Foreign Policy
Feb 2011
What Egypt learned from the students who overthrew Milosevic. “The Serbs are not the usual highly paid consultants in suits from wealthy countries; they look more like, well, cocky students. They bring a cowboy swagger. They radiate success. Everyone they teach wants to do what the Serbs did.”
Al-Jazeera English
Feb 2011
An opinion piece on the structural causes of unrest in Egypt; the business fraternity, globalization, and the fate of Egyptian women.
New Yorker
Jan 1995
On the Cairo knifing of 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz and its aftermath.
New York Times Magazine
Aug 2010
A new Egyptian TV channel called 4Shbab—“for youth” in Arabic—aims to get young people interested in Islam through music videos and reality shows.
