

The takers versus the makers: Understanding Egypt’s Subsidy Paradox
In my younger years, when I had just graduated from the American University in Cairo, I landed my first real job at the US Agency for...


Dedicated to all those who ran away
I learned long ago how judgmental some Egyptians can be and how cruel they can be as well. My last encounter with this was at the World...


In Flawed Societies, Crime Does Pay
Every society, and community for that matter, gets the kind of criminal it deserves. In the 1920s, the US got the likes of Bonnie and...