Lindsey Hilsum
Violence shows who really runs Egypt
Today’s violent assault on the Muslim Brotherhood encampments in Cairo marks a victory for the security state led by General Sisi Lindsey Hilsum writes.
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Lindsey Hilsum
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The final hours in Cairo 2.0
The whole nation is on tenterhooks again – the next few hours crucial.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Federalism in Libya
“Interestingly, some westerners also want the east to have more power, because the region is solidly anti-Gaddafi, whereas in the west there’s still some residual support for the late Brother Leader.”
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Lindsey Hilsum
Libya prepares for first post-Gaddafi national elections
Libya’s first post-Gaddafi elections are going ahead, but is that wise given the amount of weapons in private hands, asks Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
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Egypt on knife-edge between democracy and revolt
Jonathan Rugman on how the army and the Islamists are uneasy but unavoidable bedfellows in Egypt’s future democracy.
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Egypt Christians insecure after Shenouda's death
The death of His Most Blessed Beatitude Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Shenouda III comes at a perilous time for Egypt’s Christian minority.
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Why thuggery cuts both ways in Egypt
If it wasn’t for a hard core of violent youths, many of them football fans, manning the barricades and taking on the police a year ago, would Egypt’s revolution have gone as far as it has?
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Egypt: historic talks and historic protests
They aren’t giving up on either side of this. Although much of Cairo is going back to work and shops and banks started to open, the protesters defied expectations and again brought huge numbers to their cause.