Hosni Mubarak is gone. The hard questions–that Omar Suleiman and the military stand aside for an interim government and democratic elections; the hard work of dismantling a repressive, bloated, corrupt, state machinery; will Egyptians be left alone, and be supported, as they now set about constructing their own future(s) without regard to the West’s “strategic interests”–can wait till tomorrow. Insha’Allah.

Further Reading

Writing while black

The film adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel ‘Erasure’ leaves little room to explore Black middle-class complicity in commodifying the traumas of Black working-class lives.

The Mogadishu analogy

In Gaza and Haiti, the specter of another Mogadishu is being raised to alert on-lookers and policymakers of unfolding tragedies. But we have to be careful when making comparisons.

Kwame Nkrumah today

New documents looking at British and American involvement in overthrowing Kwame Nkrumah give us pause to reflect on his legacy, and its resonances today.