The Islamist Challenge: The Failure of Reform in Tunisia

Egyptians threw off the thirty-year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, but now find themselves under essentially the same military tutelage that they had hoped to escape.

While President Ali ABdallah Salih continues to call Yemen an ’emerging democracy,’ it more closely resembles athe autocracy of the pre-unification North.

A review of Unruly Corporatism: The Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt, by Robert Bianchi.