Ashraf Khalil

In early 2011, the world’s attention was riveted on Cairo, where after nearly three decades of supremacy, Hosni Mubarak was driven from power. It was a revolution as swift as…

Memory is implacable in Egypt’s three major cities on the Suez Canal: Port Said in the north, Ismailia in the middle and Suez in the south. There is still vestigial…

  Egypt’s constitutional endgame is upon us. And almost nobody in the country — including the document’s drafters — seems to be truly prepared. On Nov. 22, when President Mohamed Morsi issued…

In the past 18 months, I’ve probably entered Tahrir Square more than 100 times, and I like to think I’ve developed pretty good instincts about the place. Normally when I…

Just past 10 p.m. in Cairo, around 1,500 protesters gathered outside the walls of the heavily fortified U.S. embassy in Cairo, lustily shouting anti-American slogans and promising, as one chant…