By Hossam el-Hamalawy The coup of 3 July 2013 did not descend upon Egypt like a bolt from the blue. Nor was it simply a meticulously orchestrated military conspiracy, conceived and executed behind closed doors. It emerged instead from the convergence of several forces: the Muslim Brotherhood’s crisis of governance; the state apparatus recovering its […]

In January 2026, Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as Mayor of New York City, in an abandoned subway station beneath City Hall, placing his hand on two copies of the Qur’an. Bernie Sanders was present, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a speech in which she declared that the city had chosen courage over fear, and prosperity […]