Book Review | We Were Slaves In Egypt—and Slaveowners
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History
By Craig Perry
Princeton University Press, 368 pp.
Each year at Passover, Jews gather around the seder table and...
Egypt’s Last Jewish Chapter
By 2019, fewer than 20 Jews remained in Egypt, most of them elderly women. As of 2025, the number of openly practicing Jews in the country is believed to be under five.
From 1975 | Can Israel Win Another War?
The fifth war: if it comes, will it be simply another round in the long duel between Arab and Jew fought over the old battlefields and for the old objectives, or will it be Armageddon, a confrontation between the superpowers that could set the world alight? No one, naturally, can say. What can be said with confidence is that another war will not be like the last
The Strange Tale of the First Arab Journalist to Visit Israel After the ’67 War
Among those disembarking the Scandanavian Airlines flight on July 23 1967 in Tel Aviv, was a thin, bearded man in his 30s named Waguih Ghali. Like the other passengers, he walked into Lod airport—and stopped at the passport control counter. “You mean,” the clerk said, double checking that he had heard correctly, “that you are Egyptian?”
Book Review // The Angel by Uri Bar-Joseph
Nine years have passed since the mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, the senior Egyptian government official who volunteered to spy for Israel’s Mossad. Marwan remains at the center of a bitter controversy over why the October 1973 attack that launched the Yom Kippur War took Israel by surprise.
Opinion | Why Democracy in Egypt Still Matters
By Tamara Cofman Wittes
The United States needs to accept that the days of one-man rule are gone forever.
Three years after the hopeful scenes of the Arab...
Inside Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
Two years after the dawn of the Arab Spring and six months after Mohamed Morsi was elected president, democracy is still a work in progress...
Escape from Freedom?
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
As Passover approaches, I have been reading the psychologist Erich Fromm’s 1941 work, Escape from Freedom. Writing when Nazi Germany was at its...
Egypt on the Edge
By Adina RosenthalTensions in the Middle East have sadly reached a familiar high. Recently, Gaza militants ambushed Israeli vehicles in southern Israel near Eilat, killing...
We, the (Arab) People
By Aarian Marshall
Like many people my age, I watched the Arab Spring on CNN, from my university’s Student Campus Center. Sometimes, someone would change the...
Israel Next on Arab Revolutionary Agendas
By Gabriel Weinstein, Scripps Howard Foundation Wire
On January 1, no one would have predicted protesters in Tahrir Square would oust Hosni Mubarak and Moammar Gadhafi’s...
Accept Friend Request?
by Amanda Walgrove
It's Complicated between Israel and Egypt. After Israel Unfriended Turkey last year, she has only had one longstanding friend remaining in the Middle...