Lunch with the Arabist #3: Steve Cook and Jonathan Tepperman
We talk to the Council of Foreign Relations' resident Egypt specialist, Steve Cook, and Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman over a few Stellas at the Greek Club.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #6: It's hot out there
This week: Revolution 2.0 protest in Tahrir Square, the Greeks and the Gaza flotilla, and a new constitution in Morocco + Hoba Hoba Spirit's Bled Schizo.
View ArticleArabist.net Podcast #3: The Where’s Waldo of Espionage
This week: ubiquitous Israeli spies, Mohamed ElBaradei and Amr Khaled, Saudi women drivers and “Messages from Tahrir”.
View ArticleLunch with the Arabist #1: Helena Cobban and William B. Quandt
Introducing Lunch with Arabist: conversations with Middle East experts and more. This week we talk to Helena Cobban of Just World Books and her husband William B. Quandt, professor of politics at the...
View ArticleArabist.net Podcast #4: The Manchurian Candidate
In this week's podcast, we discuss the "Constitution First" vs. "Elections First" debate in Egypt and Sheikh al-Azhar's proposal, the silence surrounding Syria and Bahrain, the ADC's attempt to prevent...
View ArticleLunch with the Arabist #2: Ibn Kafka
We eat sushi with Moroccan blogger Ibn Kafka and ask him his thoughts on the new constitution King Muhammad VI has proposed.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #5: Justice deferred
This week, we look at the role the Khaled Said affair played in mobilizing Egyptians against police abuse, the recent clashes in Tahrir Square and the role of women in politics post-revolution.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #7: No Satisfaction
In this week’s podcast, Ashraf Khalil is given time off and we host the not-street-artist Ganzeer, one of the brains being Rolling Bulb and a series of murals honoring the martyrs of the revolution...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #8: What's up in Sohag
In this week's podcast, more on the Tahrir Square sit-in, the never-ending cabinet shuffle, politics in Upper Egypt, the movies that defined the late Mubarak era, and new Arabic comics.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #9: Revolution Jetlag
We're back from our break and talk Tea Party politics, Mubarak trial, what's happening in Sinai, and the beginning of the end for Syria and Libya.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #10: Libya and its consequences
We delayed this week's podcast to bring you two guests with expert knowledge of the Libyan war and its regional consequences: Steve Negus, who just returned from Tripoli and Benghazi, and Middle East...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #11: The embassy and the trial
In this week's podcast, AFP reporter Samer Al Atrush and journalist Steve Negus join Ursula Lindsey. We discuss the clashes of Friday 9 September, in which protester defaced the Ministry of Interior,...
View ArticleThe Arabist #12: We regret to inform you that revolution is cancelled
This week, Ashraf Khalil is back and we talk about the worrying turn Egypt's transition has taken, between the reinstatement of the Emergency Law, restrictions on media, threats against strikers and...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #13: Post-Qadhafi, pre-Tantawi?
This week, Ursula and Ashraf host guests from Libya Ahmed Shukr and Anjali Kamat. They talk de-Qadhafization, the state of the (counter) revolution in Egypt, and of Muhammad Tantawi's suit.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #14: The Ones That Didn't Make It (Yet)
This week we discuss those Arab revolutions that are still in progress or are being stopped dead in their tracks: Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #15: After Maspero
In this week’s podcast, we turn to the tragic events on October 9 in Downtown Cairo, when at least 25 people (mostly Coptic protestors) were killed at the Maspero state TV building. Ashraf, Ursula and...
View ArticleThe Arabist Interview: Youssef Sidhoum on Maspero
An interview with Youssef Sidhoum, a prominent Egyptian intellectual and editor of the Coptic Weekly al-Watani, on the events of October 9, 2011 at Maspero.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #16: %^&* the French!
After a two-week hiatus, we return to talk about Tunisia's elections, Nahda's success and the work ahead in that country's transition, why Egypt is not as lucky, and how much we hate the French.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #17: Doom and Gloom
In this edition of the Arabist Podcast, we look at the Arab League's decision to suspend Syria's membership and the mess of Egypt's elections.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #18: Back to Tahrir
After the last two days' exceptional events in Tahrir Square, Egypt seems to teeter on the brink of another revolution or political chaos. We discuss the recent violence and the scenarios the country...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #19: Elections!
So the elections in Egypt are upon us, and they didn't turn out to be a catastrophe. In fact, the turnout is looking good. But should we all be celebrating? Ursula Lindsey and I argue that while...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #20: Islamic Republic of Egypt?
In this edition of the Arabist Podcast, we introduce a brand new segment, Regional Cliffnotes, and then delve into the initial results from the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections. It's a...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #21: Electoral Dilemmas
We take a semi-break from the Egyptian elections to look at the bigger picture: the wave of elections bringing Islamists to office parties across the region, what Morocco's pretty tame Islamists might...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #23: The Sandmonkey Episode
In this week's episode, Ursula and I talk to the legendary Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey, a major figure of the online coverage of the uprising. Also known as Mahmoud Salem, Sandmonkey was an unlucky...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #24: It's a new year
For the first episode of 2012, we reflect of what's to come, discuss the Arab League mission in Syria, Egypt's elections and the rest of the transition timeline, take a first look at the presidential...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #25: A divisive anniversary
In this episode, we discuss Mohamed ElBaradei's decision not to run for president Egypt, the preparations for Egypt's new parliament and for the anniversary of the January 25 uprising. All through the...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #27: Back in business
The original team is back together to discuss the aftermath of the US-Egypt NGO crisis, dissent in the UAE, and Egypt's presidential elections.
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #28: And then there were 13
Issandr El Amrani, Ashraf Khalil and Ursula Lindsey are back after skipping out on the most confusing month in the history of Egyptian politics. We catch up on the state of whatever is left of a...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #29: Presidency or bust!
There's 15 days left to the Egyptian presidential elections. We examine the insurgent campaign of Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, ask whether the Muslim Brothers are dangerously off-balance as they...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #30: Indecision time
The first round of Egypt's presidential elections are upon us. We've talked about why the context for them is flawed, now we talk about the pure politics: who's ahead, who's trailing, what we think...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #31: A7atein
We talk about the results of the first round of presidential elections, the dilemma facing the one-half of voters who did not vote for the candidates that made it to the second round. In a break from...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #32: Really?!?
The usual three are joined by Ustaz Doktor Josh Stacher to discuss the upcoming second round of Egypt’s presidential election, judicial shenanigans and SCAF’s plotting, what kinds of powers the next...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #33: Egypt's Quantum Politics, or Schrodinger's Transition
It's never a dull day in Egypt. Your exhausted podcasters explain the week that turned Egypt's flailing transition into a full-blown military coup, breaking down the steps: the Supreme Constitutional...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #34: Morsi's Night of Power
We interrupt our break from the podcast to discuss the latest in Egyptian politics: Morsi asserting his presidential powers, the changes in the Egyptian military, where Egypt's foreign policy might go...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #35: The embassy riots and their aftermath
We're back in Cairo and devote most of this episode to the US embassy riots: how they started, what they represent, the culture wars they involve, the MB-Salafi battle for who is the biggest defender...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #36: Mean Streets
The gang talk about Ashraf's heroism battling off feral Tahrir hordes, secular discontent and the politics of Egypt's constitution. We top it all off with talk about the US presidential debates and the...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #37: A Constitutional Smörgåsbord
The long promised podcast on everything you wanted to know about the new Arab constitutions but were afraid to ask is here. We sit with guest Zaid al-Ali, a member of the team that advised on the Iraqi...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #38 (Part 1/2): History on repeat
A friend here in Cairo recently told me she felt history was repeating itself all around her: a new Egyptian train tragedy; bodies of Palestinian children being dug out of the rubble of Gaza as Israel...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #38 (Part 2/2): This is Cairo
Here is Part 2 of this week’s podcast. This was an experiment: Christopher Lydon of Radio Open Source is in town and we invited him to join us and gathered some of our accomplished friends to discuss a...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #39: Capture the castle
On this week’s podcast, Issandr and Ursula are joined by Human Rights Watch’s Heba Morayef and The Economist’s Max Rodenbeck to try to ascertain which of the developments of the last week we find the...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #40: Referendumb
The first round of Egypt's referendum on the draft constitution rushed through by Islamist forces has taken place, resulting in a narrow win for Islamists in early results. Our guest Hossam Bahgat,...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #41: The Terrible Twos
More chaos and mayhem in Egypt over the weekend on the second anniversary of the January, 25 2011 uprising. Is Egypt becoming ungovernorable? What do the protestors want, can the opposition come up...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #42: An opposition strategy
In this episode, we discuss Dubai's art scene and Gulf countries' soft power, the challenges faced by Islamists in Egypt and Tunisia, and what the Egyptian opposition is doing, is not doing, and should...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #43: Minority Report
The Arabist podcast is back after a long summer break, hosted by regulars Ursula Lindsey and Ashraf Khalil and featuring Lina Attalah, editor of Mada Masr. We discuss terrorism and military operations...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #44: Just how bad is it exactly?
On this podcast, journalists Ursula Lindsey and Ashraf Khalil speak to Human Rights Watch's Sarah Lee Whitson about the greatest threats to human rights across the region, and about how to defend human...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #45: Underdogs
Arabist podcast hosts Ursula Lindsey and Ashraf Khalil talk to Khaled Dawoud, a prominent Egyptian reporter and activist who campaigned to remove the Muslim Brotherhood from power but later resigned as...
View ArticleThe Arabist Podcast #46: "His program is the crisis"
Issandr El Amrani and Steve Negus are back with Ursula Lindsey to geek out on Egyptian politics. Does the presidential election matter? Are Sisi and Sabahi just two variants of Nasserism? Does anyone...
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