Anwar Sadat

As big as the question of who the winner will be, is what the job of the presidency will be like in the short and long term. This new situation in Egypt is an uncertain balancing act between competing forces. We've never been here before.

Thirty years ago, on October 6, 1981, Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Anwar Al Sadat was assassinated by fundamentalist army soldiers ...

Mubarak was able to degrade civilian criminal court procedures and render them more like the national security courts by and through the prosecution of an unpopular minority: gay men.

The new Egypt will not repudiate a peace treaty with Israel that has saved so many lives on both sides. But the nature of the peace will change.

The West fears that Mubarak's untimely demise, without a secure regime in his wake and a suitable figurehead at the helm, could inspire a politically more confident Muslim Brotherhood.

The regime has not given up on Mubarak, and is resolved to fight. The critical question continues to be whether the army will fire on demonstrators if so ordered.

Today, the situation in Egypt is not so dissimilar to that of October 6, 1981 at 1 pm. Back then, Mubarak was vice president and Anwar Sadat was president. Now, nearly 30 years later, it's Mubarak's turn.

They may be preparing to sacrifice Mubarak to appease the crowds, but there are unmistakable signs that the regime is busy inventing a new argument for their ongoing monopoly on power.

Democracy is breaking out in Tunisia and Egypt not because of U.S. actions in the Middle East, but despite them.

In the 37 years since this "victory," the Arabs have been unable to persuade Israel to agree to the Arab Peace Initiative and have become absolutely impotent to prevent it from continuing the construction of settlements.

The need has never been more pressing for a visionary Arab leader to step forward and transform the landscape of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Saudi Arabia, this may be your cue.

In its September 13, 2010 issue, Time magazine asks the wrong question. The question isn't why Israel doesn't care about peace. The question is why th...

"The attitude towards Israel on the part of the intellectual community changed very sharply in 1967, from either lack of interest or sometimes even disdain, to almost passionate support. So what happened?"

If Ashraf Marwan was murdered, then his death could help us figure out whether Marwan was a loyal Israeli spy, a double Egyptian-Israeli spy or a spy with shifting loyalties.

Egypt and Sudan almost came to blows 17 years ago over the Halayeb region, said to be rich in manganese. Since then, the Sudanese government has called for a negotiated settlement of the dispute.

The first round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in a decade will begin next week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced late Friday. These are the talks that should have started a year ago.

The current status-quo in the Middle East must be disturbed before conditions are right for the next round of Middle East diplomacy.

It's a charged time of year, in a prickly piece of real estate. But this is Sinai. Ma feesh mushkila. (No problem.)

The daughter of assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is filing a lawsuit after a film character named his dog after the leader, BBC reports. A...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has positioned himself -- and Egypt's diplomatic initiatives -- at the head of the Arab camp's efforts to bring peace to the region.

Again and again we heard that said, that Egyptians hope Obama understands the Middle East situation better than his predecessor.