An Untold Catastrophe

Sudan and South Sudan are teetering: war, famine, environmental degradation, and the involuntary movement of hundreds of thousands of people have the potential to exact a dire toll on the lives of millions people.  That this unfolding cataclysm is entirely man made, and entirely avoidable, points to a profound failure of leadership at home and abroad. The numbers are staggering: In North Sudan, the United Nations now estimates that 4.3 million citizens, or 14 percent of the country, are ...

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Reading Mahfouz in Cairo

In late January the Egyptian Creativity Front marched on Cairo in an attempt to pressure Egypt’s new parliament to respect the freedom of expression. Over the last couple of months, there have been rising concerns amongst artists and intellectuals over the future of public thought in Egypt. Their concerns are rooted in the fact that a number of members of the new Parliament view certain forms of expression as offensive. Though the majority Freedom and Justice party—the political rep...

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