Mada Masr, the last muckraking news site in Cairo, broke a story about El-Sisi’s son. On Sunday, Egyptian authorities broke into its office.
Jonathan Guyer
Jonathan Guyer is program director at the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group and a contributing editor at the Prospect.
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The New NEA: National Emergency for the Arts
An afternoon in the Trump White House among its court musicians, dignitaries, and other regime favorites
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The Sketchy Rehabilitation of George W. Bush
The Kennedy Center’s exhibition of paintings by the war-making president shows how quickly Washington can forget—and the big money that eases such forgetting.
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Trump Official Briefs AIPAC, as Democrats Rally Around J Street
Middle East State Department appointee David Schenker made time for the Israel lobbying powerhouse AIPAC, clarifying the fault lines in Washington.
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Thanks to Sanders, Conditioning Aid to Israel Is Entering the National Conversation
Speaking at the J Street conference, the senator from Vermont electrified the ‘pro-Israel’ crowd with his brand of tough love.
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It’s Not Enough to Reject Trump’s Crisis-Making in Syria
Today on TAP: The House condemns Turkish military operations in northern Syria, and should go further
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The 2020 Foreign-Policy Primary
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden are staking out different territory.
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Washington’s ‘Freedom Promoting’ Think Tanks That Ignore Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder
On the anniversary of the Saudi state’s killing of the journalist, these think tanks were strategically silent—or, worse, met with Saudi officials.
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A Year After Khashoggi’s Murder, Arab Press at Dire Risk
And unsurprisingly the U.S. under Trump and Pompeo isn’t standing up for press freedom.
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Never Again, Except for Right Now
By arguing that ‘the left’ represents as dangerous a threat as mass shooters and right-wing terrorists, Times writer Bari Weiss cheapens the crisis facing America, one that she has witnessed firsthand.