An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Even as votes are being counted from Egypt's election, the country is descending into levels of violence seen during the Arab Spring. A sit-in ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians woke up to a dawn of uncertainty Sunday with several key buildings still smoldering in the capital and thousands of anti-regime protesters remaining camped out at the city's ...

CAIRO — On May 2, 2011, the same day the Ohio River reached 61.72 feet in Cairo, the highest level on record, Tyrone Coleman was sworn in as mayor. The ceremony was a few hours before the New ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. To alleviate some of the pressure and save Cairo from being washed out, the Army ...

Until the January 25 uprising, Cairo was a sensory attack of overflowing sidewalks, sweet-tobacco-scented air, and Egypt’s national pastimes: hobnobbing and horn honking. During the thick of the ...

Cairo is a difficult place. The biggest Arab or African city and one of the biggest mostly Muslim metropolises, it is furiously crowded, grubby and noisy. It is venerable as the home to the sole ...

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I eagerly await my TAC colleague Daniel Larison’s thoughts on the Egyptian mob’s overrunning of the Israeli embassy in Cairo this weekend. In my comboxes, some readers seem to have taken the line that ...