Mohammad ElBaradei

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Black Bloc and Tahrir youth celebrate atop a commandeered police truck in the center of the square. (photo: Jesse Rosenfeld)

Postcards from Tahrir: ‘No freedom, bread or social justice’

As Egypt’s currency continues to fall and the IMF strings for a bailout package that will end fuel and food subsides, popular anger has turned on the country’s first democratically elected president. Now, out on the streets of Cairo, protesters are being confronted by the same forces they fought in order to overthrow Mubarak in 2011.…

By +972 Magazine January 31, 2013

ElBaradei during the session 'Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons' at the Annual Meeting 2007 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2007 (Photo: World Economic Forum/flickr)

What could ElBaradei mean for Israel?

By Dahlia Scheindlin and Roi Maor By some accounts, Mohammed ElBaradei is not terribly charismatic. But after living abroad for over 30 years , he returned to Egypt with fanfare last Thursday, to announce his candidacy as successor to Hosni Mubarak, who has been in power roughly just as long. Roee Ruttenberg here on +972…

By Dahlia Scheindlin February 1, 2011