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HNN Hot Topics: Egypt

Tahrir Square on February 9, 2011, at the height of the protests which toppled strongman Hosni Mubarak. Credit: Flickr/Jonathan Rashad.

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News

Clashes in Egypt Leave Historical Archive in Ruins (12-20-11)

Commentary: Historians

Juan Cole: Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect (9-13-12)

Victor Davis Hanson: Storming Embassies, Killing Ambassadors, and ‘Smart’ Diplomacy (9-12-12)

Paul R. Pillar: Culture and Constitutionalism in Egypt (8-14-12)

Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica: If the U.S. Is The World's Fireman, Who Rebuilds The Burned-Out Neighborhoods? (7-10-12)

Judith Mendelsohn Rood: A Liberal Challenge to Wahhabist Orthodoxy May Be the Way Forward for Islam (6-25-12)

Egypt: An Election within a Coup within a Coup (6-18-12)

Fouad Ajami: Egypt's Next Leader Won't Be A Creature of Tahrir Square (5-25-12)

Barbara Zollner: An Islamic State in Egypt? The Muslim Brotherhood and the Presidential Elections (4-26-12)

Interview with Juan Cole on Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Tunisia [VIDEO] (1-7-12)

Q&A with Mark LeVine: Have human rights been left behind in Egypt? (12-15-11)

Fouad Ajami: Egypt and the Fruits of the Pharaohs (11-29-11)

Walter Russell Mead: Will Egypt Have A Revolution? (10-2-11)

Joel Beinin: What Have Workers Gained from Egypt’s Revolution? (7-20-11)

Daniel Pipes: Understanding Post-Mubarak Egypt (4-27-11)

Arthur E. Goldschmidt Jr.: Don't Call Egyptian Protests a Revolution ... Yet (3-2-11)

Daniel Martin Varisco: All Eyes on Egypt (3-2-11)

Juan Cole: Fear Not the Muslim Brotherhood Boogeyman (2-15-11)

Commentary: Media

Ty McCormick: Why the Embassy Attacks Aren't 1979 All Over Again (9-12-12)

Lindsey Hilsum: Islam's History Faces Threat from Within (9-5-12)

William Dobson: Egypt Has Not Had a Coup, Merely a Return to the 1950s (6-20-12)