Latest articles by Jacob Lippincott
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Dispatch from Cairo: Will Egypt let Hosni Mubarak off the hook?
The Explainer The ousted despot gets a retrial — disappointing people across all walks of Egyptian life
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Dispatch from Cairo: Egypt's president is under attack from all sides
feature Goodbye, consensus. Hello, violence
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How Muslims in the Middle East see Syria's civil war
feature For decades, Israel has been Public Enemy Number One on the Muslim street. Today, Bashar al-Assad is vying for that ignominious title
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Dispatch from Cairo: The pyramid scheme of violence-ravaged Egypt
feature In today's Egypt, incompetent middle-aged employees hold onto jobs until death, while qualified young people languish — and drift toward deadly rioting
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Why you shouldn't celebrate Egypt's counter-revolution
feature The military coup undermines democracy. And it marks a return to an authoritarianism that is corrupt and brutal, but at least provides a modicum of stability
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Dispatch from Cairo: Egypt is on the brink of civil war
feature Terrifying bouts of violence have broken out in the streets of this roiling Mideast country
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Dispatch from Cairo: Egypt is falling off a cliff
feature The atmosphere is so polarized almost everyone here is minimizing the atrocities of one group and exaggerating those of the other
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Dispatch from Cairo: The disturbing rise of anti-Christian violence
feature The Egyptian military has no ideological problem with Christians, but they will not tolerate any activism from this community either
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Dispatch from Cairo: How I almost got beat up by an Egyptian mob
feature Xenophobia in Egypt is reaching dangerous levels
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Dispatch from Cairo: Egypt on the brink
feature As violence spreads across the country, the government faces grim choices
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Dispatch from Cairo: What's really happening in Tahrir Square
The Explainer Egypt's secularists, unable to counter the Muslim Brotherhood's impressively powerful political machine, are turning increasingly violent
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Dispatch from Cairo: The frighteningly uncertain future of Christians in Egypt
feature Christians and Muslims generally live side by side peacefully. But there has been a troubling rise in religious violence.
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Egypt's violent spiral is only getting worse
feature As if things weren't bad enough, now terrorists are targeting foreign tourists
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