The Contrarian Progressive

If you belong to the tiny but exceptionally brilliant group of people who have been following this humble soapbox from the beginning, you mi...

You must be aware of the rising death toll and the looming confrontation between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian army. Needless to...

I just came across this video clip on the Guardian site . I thought I should link to it. This is not because I want to make any moral poi...

A good friend of mine objected to to my recent post on Egypt.  He felt that I was overstating the American influence over the Egyptian...

Unless you are a very keen student of the Salafist movement in Lebanon, you've probably never heard of Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir. At least n...

You must have seen the breathless headlines about the dark future awaiting Egypt's beleaguered President  Mohammed Mursi. Indeed, th...

There are two schools of thought on this. One side says that if you have nothing to hide why worry about such things, let them sift throug...