On January 25, 2011, popular demonstrations calling for reform began in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.  From January 28 to February 11, hundreds of thousands of Egyptian citizens – determined, resilient and unified – remained in Tahrir, eventually forcing Egyptian President Hosni Mub… Read full post »

Hey all.  I published this at:: http://www.foreignpolicydigest.org/2011/03/01/special-feature-18-days-that-may-have-changed-the-world/ a few days ago.  Wanted to relink it here and suggest you check both this and foreignpolicydigest.org out sometime. 

 Take care,

 Tom

Egypt:… Read full post »

I’m working on an article about the uprisings around the region for an online foreign policy journal called ForeignPolicyDigest.org. In doing so, I’ve been going over my notes from the past month and decided that the blow-by-blow journal I kept while holed up in Tahrir Square on January 2… Read full post »

Do me a favor and read this.  It’ll only take a few minutes.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/21/al-qaedas-sputnik-moment/

Pretty angry?  I hope so, they’ve certainly assumed we’re all pretty stupid thinking we’d buy this line.  If not, let me highli… Read full post »

The political transformation that Egypt is undergoing today is an incredibly beautiful, exciting, and perhaps unprecedented opportunity for growth and understanding between the West and the Middle East.  The Middle East of 2011 faces a legacy of more than 200 years of colonization benefiting Eur… Read full post »