Above: Demonstrators standing on an army vehicle in Tahrir Square, Cairo. Courtesy of Wikicommons.
[The following post was originally published by The Mantle.]
By Shaun Randol
Alon Ben Meir – Egypt’s Future Rests on Military
Alan Ben-Meir argues Egypt's stability, political reforms and progress rest almost entirely in the hands of its military:
http://alonben-meir.com/articles/read/id/476
Ian Bremmer – El-Erian, Biggs, Sawiris’s Own Words on Egypt, Markets, (Bloomberg.com)
Ian Bremmer talks about Egypt's political unrest and the impact on global financial markets: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/66408472/
Egypt’s Popular Revolution and Its Discontents
The following essay was originally published by Muftah, a web magazine focusing on the Middle East and North Africa.
By Nancy Elshami
Vietnam: Ghosts of New Years Past and Present
[Above: Workers put finishing touches on a huge dragon made of flowers in a downtown Saigon park for the Vietnamese New Year, or Tet, and the Year of the Cat.]
By Carl Robinson
Nixon in China Redux
By David A. Andelman
An Interview with the Brotherhood
By Michael Downey
The Myth of “the Arab Street”
[Above: Protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Image courtesy of Flickr user monasosh.]
By Hassan Malik
Back to the Future in Cuba
Photo courtesy of Lilia Efimova
By Lissa Weinmann