In most of these cases, protesters and police do battle...without apparent conclusion...In each place, the formula is pretty much the same: demonstrators take to the streets by the thousands to decry varying degrees of corruption, insecurity, and a lack of democratic transparency—all justifiable citizens’ complaints. The response of the embattled leaders has been to objectify their opponents (calling them C.I.A.-bankrolled “fascists” in the case of Ukraine and Venezuela, and “terrorists” in the case of Egypt, Libya, and Syria), to hunker down and fight back, and in some cases, to unleash terror.

...growing number of young Egyptians say the government’s heavy-handed crackdown on any opposition is widening a generation gap, which poses a longer-term threat to stability.

Katy Perry plays Katy Patra a spin on ancient Egyptian ruler Cleopatra...

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama devoted most of a limited section on foreign policy to the Middle East but uttered not one word about that region’s most populous and influential nation: Egypt.

...death toll from clashes during protests in Egypt has risen to 49 in violence that erupted on the third anniversary of the...uprising which toppled Hosni Mubarak.

“The genius of you Americans...is that you never made clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves.”

“The Square” understands that the Revolution itself is a work in progress, and while its immediacy means it, too, will soon be superseded, it stands as a vigorous, useful account.

That what the media called ‘the Arab spring’ was a succession of revolutions became orthodoxy very quickly.

...a commentary on political corruption in Egypt.

In Syria and Egypt, it is too early to reach a definitive judgement on Obama’s policies.