Weekend Reading: Politics and the PKK, Rule of Law in Libya, and Egypt’s Debt Debate
Friday, October 28, 2011
Shop owners read newspapers as they sit on the sidewalk in the Khan al-Khalili area of Cairo (Peter Andrews/Courtesy Reuters)

Shop owners read newspapers as they sit on the sidewalk in the Khan al-Khalili area of Cairo (Peter Andrews/Courtesy Reuters)

A vendor displays a plastic lantern at a shop selling Ramadan lanterns in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters)

A Palestinian schoolboy walks past a mural depicting captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in the Gaza Strip (Ismail Zaydah/Courtesy Reuters)

Egyptian Christian woman mourns at the Coptic Hospital in Cairo (Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Courtesy Reuters)
My colleagues from the CFR’s Multimedia department and I put together the video below called “Egypt’s Democratic Quest: From Nasser to Tahrir” to coincide with the release of my new book The Struggle for Egypt. I hope you find it interesting and useful. Read more »
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