"Cairo, U.S. Blindsided by Revolt" was The Wall Street Journal's headline on its analysis of what led up to the Egyptian crisis. "We were caught by surprise." Israeli Finance Minister Yval Steinitz ...

As the crisis in Egypt reached its inevitable climax this week, commentators struggled to find historical parallels, from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to Tiananmen Square, to the Iranian revolution.

“The people of the world can live together in peace,” Obama said at Cairo University. “We know that is God’s vision. Now that must be our work here on Earth.” In Obama’s view — although he did point ...

The second revolution has, supposedly, come to Egypt. Over the past twelve days, tens of thousands of Egyptians have gathered in Tahrir Square to demand that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces ...

The tragedy in Egypt is a warning to Americans—imperious executive power is a threat to liberty everywhere. In much of the Middle East, citizens are sharply divided between advocates of modernism and ...

There are tariffs, there are prohibitive tariffs and then there’s Egypt tariff on whiskey. It is, without a doubt, the most fascinating import tax of all time, largely because nothing about it makes ...

Contrary to popular belief, Mark Twain never said that “denial ain’t just a river in Egypt”, but the phrase touches on a truth. Denial is not universally scarce, but in Egypt it is both a river and a ...