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Index

Abbas, Wael, 14

Abbasiya Square, 97–98

Abdallah, Ahmad, 37

Abdel Azeem, Mohamed, 273

Abdel Fattah, Ahmed, 205

Abdel Fattah, Esraa, 259

Abdel Hamid, Dalia, 260, 327–30

Abdel Hamid, Ragab, 198

Abdel Naby, Hussein, 219, 220

Abdel Nour, Mounir Fakhry, 298

Abdel-Rahman, Ahmed, 249

Abdel Rahman, Omar, 59, 159

Abdel Wahab, Mohamed, 315

Abduh, Muhammad, 103–5, 122–23, 312

Abdullah, King, 252, 291

Abdullah, Ahmed, 197–98

Abdullah, Khaled, 79

Abdullah bin Zayed (ABZ), 267, 268

Aboulnaga, Fayza, 322

Abu Bakr, Khaled, 166–67

Abu Deif, Al Husseini, 189

Abu Dhabi, 45, 226, 268

Abu Ismail, Hazem Salah, 131

Abu Simbel, 2

Adly, Malek, 259

Afifi, Adel Abdel Maqsoud, 197

Al Ahram, 88, 159–60, 180, 187, 251, 313, 318

Al Azhar, 70, 103–5, 161, 181, 191, 230, 240, 262, 310–12

Alexandria, 8, 22

Ali, Ahmed, 258, 290

Ali, Nawal, 74, 80, 81

Al Jazeera, 26, 48, 225, 246, 248, 249, 259, 270

Al Manar, 122

Al Nour Party, 110

Al Qaeda, 3, 102, 107, 125, 177, 283–85, 287, 333

Muslim Brotherhood and, 115–16, 209, 210

in September 11 attacks, 154–55

Aly, Mourad, 222

Amanpour, Christiane, 95

American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 266

Amin, Khaled, 136, 185–86, 188, 189, 276, 277

Amnesty International, 38, 78, 289

Amr, Mohamed Kamel, 252–53

Anan, Sami, 60, 160, 161, 221

Andijan massacre, 276

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, 160, 284, 287–88

Anwar, Yassin Thabet, 87

April 6 Youth Movement, 5, 33, 37, 40, 56, 96–97, 259, 323, 324

Arabic language, 10–11

Arab Spring, 127, 208, 258, 285, 286, 308, 312, 333

Arish, 286

Asem, Sondos, 155

Asfour, Gaber, 312

Ashton, Catherine, 253

Assabah, 25

al-Assad, Hafez, 6

el-Assar, Mohamed, 157, 237

Aswan Dam (High Dam), 1–2, 17, 307

al-Attiyah, Khalid, 238, 267

authoritarianism, 11, 305, 333, 335

autocracy, 2, 114–15, 299–300, 334

Ayad, Alaa, 86, 87

Aziz, Salah, 87

Aziz, Samuel, 313

el-Badawi, El Sayyid, 198–99, 223

Badie, Mohamed, 112, 114, 199–200, 247, 283, 315

Bagato, Hatem, 150

Bahgat, Hossam, 264, 335–36

Bahnasy, Maha, 319

Baker, Peter, 175

Bakry, Mustafa, 306

Bandar, Prince, 252

Ban Ki-moon, 336

el-Banna, Hassan, 111, 122–25, 193

Barak, Ehud, 62

el-Baramawy, Yasmine, 197

al-Barr, Abdel Rahman, 293

Battle of the Camel, 48, 50

el-Beblawi, Hazem, 304

Beecroft, Robert S., 322

Begin, Menachem, 19

Beheri, Islam, 312

Beltagy, Asmaa, 274

Beltagy, Mohamed, 31, 275

Ben Ali, Sofiane, 27

Ben Ali, Zine al Abidine, 25–29, 54

Benghazi attack, 162, 176–77

Bent al-Masarwa (Egyptian Girl), 75

el-Berry, Esraa, 247

Beshay, Farid, 187

Biden, Joe, 31, 35, 45

bin Laden, Osama, 265, 333

Bitter Harvest, The (al-Zawahiri), 125

Black Box, The, 324

Blinken, Antony, 73, 242

Bloomberg, Michael, 127

el-Borai, Negad, 167, 169

el-Borhami, Yasser, 102, 105–7, 110, 138, 180–82

Bouazizi, Mohamed (street vendor), 24, 26

Bourguiba, Habib, 25

Bradford, Laura, 3, 9, 10, 12, 21, 32, 41–42, 64–65, 133–34, 136, 177, 256, 264, 277, 281, 282, 294, 298, 320–23

Britain, 17–18, 104, 111, 117, 124, 333

Bumiller, Elisabeth, 60

Burns, William, 266–68

Burr, Richard, 207

Bush, George W., 19, 20, 73, 115

Caffery, Jefferson, 17

Cairo, 1, 2, 3–10, 42, 56, 194, 196, 202, 245–46, 251, 264, 277, 281–82, 284, 298, 320, 330

American embassy in, 16

Garbage City in, 133

zoo in, 12–14

Cairo Tower, 17

Caluya, Gilbert, 72–73

Cameron, David, 117, 213, 292

Camp David Accords, 16, 19, 63, 173

carjacking, 135, 321

Carter, Jimmy, 19, 229

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 17, 43, 49, 141, 166, 207, 242, 283

Chahine, Youssef, 15

Chollet, Derek, 161

Christians, Christianity, 83–94, 104, 108, 121, 158, 181, 187, 193, 203, 281, 313–14

Coptic, see Coptic Christians

Imbaba riots and, 83, 85–87, 89

Maspero massacre and, 88–94, 128, 139, 201, 253, 304, 313, 314

Mubarak and, 83–85

Muslims and, 84, 86, 90, 95, 200–202, 314

Sisi and, 313–15

women’s rights and, 69

Clinton, Bill, 321

Clinton, Chelsea, 292

Clinton, Hillary, 6, 20, 31, 35, 50, 66, 93–94, 116, 117, 141, 142, 148, 166, 174–75, 179, 336

Clinton Foundation, 292

Collins, Tim, 212

communism, 26, 115

Cook, Steven A., 32

Coptic Christians, 5, 37, 83–86, 88–94, 126, 128, 181, 187, 191, 201–2, 262, 287, 313–15

presidential election and, 138–39

zabaleen, 133

corruption, 299–300

crime and lawlessness, 133–36, 196, 315

Cultural Film, 72

Dahshur, 200

el-Damaty, Ibrahim, 314

Daoud, Hamdy, 54

Darrag, Amr, 268, 283

Darwin, Charles, 104

Darwish, Shaaban, 108–10

Daughter of the Nile Union, 67, 76

Dawoud, Khaled, 182, 189–90, 199, 216

Day of Rage, 36, 39, 41, 50, 133, 256

deep state, 304–5, 311, 312, 335, 336

democracy, 8, 10, 19, 50, 57, 60, 95, 110, 115, 123, 130, 131, 137, 148, 220, 222, 225–27, 235, 238, 239, 243, 244, 253, 260, 266, 285, 294, 308, 322, 333–35

nonprofit groups and, 96

U.S. aid to advance, 140, 141

Dempsey, Martin, 241, 243

de Soto, Hernando, 212

Discovery, 106

Donilon, Tom, 35, 117, 142, 182, 333

Dulles, John Foster, 2

Dunne, Michele, 324

el-Dursi, Abdulmajeed, 55–56

Effendi, Rena, 134

Egypt, 3, 7–12

Administrative Oversight Authority in, 300

agriculture in, 309

constitutions of, 22, 44, 57–58, 98–99, 113–14, 131, 140, 178, 180–82, 184, 209, 247, 316

corruption in, 299–300

court system of, 144, 145, 147, 165–69; see also Supreme Constitutional Court

crime and lawlessness in, 133–36, 196, 315

deep state in, 304–5

economy of, 202–3, 211–12, 222, 225, 303, 307, 333

fuel shortage in, 203, 212

intelligence agencies in, see mukhabarat

news media in, 317, 326

Parliament in, 5, 11, 23, 66–68, 70, 98–99, 111, 113–15, 118–19, 127, 129–31, 145–47, 150, 153, 156, 157, 160, 165–66, 178, 197, 198, 324

parliamentary elections in, 19–20, 22, 23, 58, 76, 95, 98, 100, 102, 105, 110, 111, 121, 126, 137, 140, 146, 215, 238, 247, 254

police in, 14–15, 24, 30, 32–33, 38, 40, 42, 58–59, 85, 133–34, 136, 173, 183, 185, 196, 197, 204, 276, 279, 284, 305, 315, 326, 327

presidential election of 2012 in, 121, 122, 133, 136–39, 140, 142, 147–50, 151, 153, 157

presidential election of 2014 in, 305–6

presidential guard complex violence in, 254–58

prisons in, 295–97

public employees in, 13, 212

revolution in, 24–52, 56–58, 60, 136, 185

surveillance in, 324

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of, 44, 49, 51, 52, 56, 57, 60, 79, 81, 88, 113, 216, 223, 236

U.S. aid to, 3–4, 8, 16–18, 60, 96, 140–43, 148, 266, 280, 322

women in, see women

“Egypt Call, The,” 293

Egyptian Feminist Union, 67

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, 335

Egyptian Museum, 15–16, 35, 36, 46–47, 65, 77, 301

Eiffel, Gustave, 13

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 17–18, 115

el-Elaimy, Zyad, 31, 38, 39, 118

ElBaradei, Mohamed, 5, 23, 32–33, 38, 46, 74, 184, 187–89, 191, 199, 211, 215–17, 223, 225, 237, 238, 240, 253–54, 258, 262, 263, 323, 335

ElMasry, Mohamed, 34

El-Masry El-Youm, 14, 173

Emara, Adel, 78–79, 93

Erlanger, Steven, 162, 164

Evans, David, 17

Ezz, Ahmed, 11–12, 23, 34, 95–96, 301

Fahim, Kareem, 31, 51, 186, 201, 283

Fahmy, Hisham A., 58–59

Family, the, 25

al-Fanagry, Mohsen, 58

el-Farash, Naser, 203, 251

Farouk, King, 17, 70, 124

Facebook, 5, 15, 26–27, 29, 34, 38–40, 101, 105, 238–39, 286, 325, 328–29

Farrag, Hazem, 135

Fathi, Moatassem, 300, 301

El Feki, Shereen, 71

Filopateer, Father, 88–92, 94, 314–15

Finer, Jon, 49–50

Flynn, Michael, 209–11, 332

Fotouh, Abdel Moneim Aboul, 5, 119–22, 125–32, 138, 139, 153, 155, 323

Fouda, Yosri, 100

France, 17–18

Freedom Agenda, 19, 20

Freedom and Justice Party, 118

Freedom House, 141, 142

Free Officers, 6, 17, 18, 124, 144–45

Free Syrian Army, 177

Fuad I, King, 111

Gaber, Lamees, 79–80

Gad, Emad, 147

Gamal, Mohamed, 204

Gates, Robert, 35, 45

Gaza, 84, 116, 118, 173, 175, 176, 179, 182, 288, 316

Gaza War, 173

el-Gebali, Tahani, 99, 144–46, 165–69, 177, 179, 180, 217, 265

Geneina, Hisham, 301–2

Ghannouchi, Rachid, 126

Ghonim, Wael, 40–41

Ghozlan, Mahmoud, 293

el-Gibba, Mohamed, 130

Gomaa, Ali, 310–11

Gordon, Philip, 241, 280

Graham, Patrick, 179

Guardian, 130

Habib, Mohamed, 130, 156

el-Haddad, Essam, 154, 175, 182–83, 186, 236, 238–40, 248, 292

el-Haddad, Gehad, 189, 232, 248, 292

Haddara, Wael, 153–56, 163, 179, 186, 222, 237

el-Hadidi, Lamees, 257–58

Hagel, Chuck, 213–14, 226–28, 243, 265–66, 280, 304

el-Hamalawy, Hossam, 59, 60

Hamas, 19–20, 118, 125, 173–75, 316

Israel and, 125, 173, 176

Muslim Brotherhood and, 125, 174

Hamid, Tawfik, 73

Hammami, Hamma, 26, 28, 29

Hamzawy, Amr, 215–17, 223, 260, 323

Harara, Ahmed, 99

Harb, Osama el-Ghazali, 148

Harb, Shady el-Ghazaly, 39, 58, 230

Hassan, Mozn, 65, 74–76, 274, 320

Hassan and Marcus, 9

Hauslohner, Abigail, 295, 298

al-Hefnawi, Reda Saleh, 197

Hegazy, Mahmoud, 161, 210

Hegazy, Safwat, 187, 250

Heikal, Mohamed Hassanein, 18–19, 217, 220, 258, 306

Helmy, Ahmed, 185

hepatitis C, 2

al-Herawy, Mahmoud, 135

Hifter, Khalifa, 285

Hitler, Adolf, 82, 229

Hubbard, Ben, 249

el-Hudaiby, Hassan, 124, 125

Human Rights Watch, 4, 6, 276, 289, 319, 323

Hussein, Hayam, 274

Hussein, King, 119

Ibn Baz, Abdel Aziz, 106

Ibrahim, Ishak, 201

Ibrahim, Musa, 54

Ibrahim, Samira, 77–78, 81–82

Ibrahim (interpreter), 188–89, 191–93

iftar, 3, 4, 6, 7, 14, 323

Imbaba riots, 83, 85–87, 89

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 142, 212, 252, 302, 303

International Republican Institute (IRI), 140–42, 322, 323

International Women’s Day, 64, 65

Iran, 17, 55, 116, 182, 243, 333

Iranian Revolution, 35

Iraq, 5, 24, 85, 144, 190, 220, 285–86, 301, 309, 333

Isaac, Malak, 94

ISIS (ISIL; Islamic State), 177, 210, 285–87, 289–91, 297, 314, 321, 333

Islam, Muslims, 8, 14, 84, 208, 220, 294, 310–11

Abduh and, 103–5

Christians and, 84, 86, 90, 95, 200–202, 314

deep state and, 311, 312

early Muslims, 104–7

Morsi and, 156, 158, 172, 179, 180

Sharia, 69, 118, 144, 156, 176, 181, 237, 249, 250, 311

Shia, 104, 116, 181, 229, 316

Sisi’s call for revolution in, 311–12

Sunni, 103, 104, 122, 151, 181, 316

Trump and, 331, 332

women and, 69, 72

Islamists, political Islam, 7, 22–23, 31, 49, 63, 65, 76, 95, 99, 103, 106, 107, 111–16, 119–21, 125–28, 130–32, 136, 145–48, 151, 159, 176, 179, 180, 220, 230, 246, 247, 249–51, 303, 324, 333

anti-Islamic fervor following Morsi’s ouster, 258–60, 264

and assaults on women, 197

Christians and, 86, 87, 200

Gebali and, 165, 167, 168

government and, 98–99

Hamas, see Hamas

jihadists, see jihadists

meaning of term, 103

mob of, and author, 191–93

Muslim Brotherhood, see Muslim Brotherhood

Salafis, see Salafis

in Tunisia, 285, 335

and violence of December 5, 187–91

Ismail, Mohamed, 58, 188

Ismail Pasha, Khedive, 10, 13

Israel, 3, 8, 131, 161, 226, 227, 243, 244, 265–66, 284

attack on embassy in Giza, 61–63

Egypt and, 8, 18, 19, 24, 61–63, 83, 120, 124, 141, 143, 208, 259, 266, 290–91

Hamas and, 125, 173, 176

in Six-Day War, 18, 119

U.S. and, 8, 17–18

Ittihadiya Palace, 162, 175, 187

Jefferson, Thomas, 4, 158

Jerusalem, 291–92

jihadists, 123, 280, 284–86, 293, 333

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, 160, 284, 287–88

ISIS, 177, 210, 285–87, 289–91, 297

Salafi, 107, 125, 126

sex and, 72–73

Jews, 46, 63, 84, 176

Johnson, Lyndon, 18

Jordan, 6, 8, 35, 53, 144

al-Jubeir, Adel, 207, 208

Judges Club, 145, 184

el-Kabeer, Emad, 14–16, 38

Kalthoum, Om, 105, 126, 245

Kamal, Osama, 318

el-Katatni, Saad, 118

Kerdasa, 281

Kerry, John, 116, 118, 211–14, 225–26, 228, 238, 242–44, 253, 266, 280, 291, 302, 305

el-Keshky, Mohamed, 310

Ketchley, Neil, 234

Khaled, Amr, 310

Khallaf, Tamim, 6

Kharijites, 310

Khisha, Hussein Abu, 136

el-Kholi, Ashraf, 291–92

Khorshid, Sara, 324

Khossous, 200, 201

Kifaya!, 19

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 30

Kirkpatrick, Emmett and Thomas, 41, 42, 64, 133, 177, 202, 264, 277, 281, 282, 292, 294, 308, 321–23

Kissinger, Henry, 18–19

Kumar, Prem, 182

Kusa, Musa, 54

Kushner, Jared, 332

Kuwait, 144, 244, 252

Labib, Adel, 87

LaHood, Ray, 140

LaHood, Sam, 140–44, 322

Laylat al Qadr, 161

Lebanon, 85, 316

León, Bernardino, 266–68

“Letter in My Purse, A” (Sabbagh), 324–25

Libya, 6, 8, 11, 53–56, 144, 176, 190, 285, 286, 308, 309, 333

Logan, Lara, 65

Lotfy, Islam, 38–39, 130, 230

Luther, Martin, 104, 312

Maadi, 3, 8–10, 20, 41, 56, 134, 202, 294, 321

Mada Masr, 335

Magdy, Ephraim, 90–91

Magdy, Rasha, 91–92

el-Mahdi, Rabab, 127–29

Maher, Ahmed, 39–40, 56, 259

Maher, Mohamed, 137

Mahfouz, Naguib, 9, 121

Mahmoud, Naglaa Ali (“Um Ahmed”), 151, 155, 170–71

Makhlouf, Rami, 11

Mandaville, Peter, 117–18

Mandela, Nelson, 235

Mansour, Adly, 263

marriage, 65, 66, 102

gay, 122

summer, 72

Maspero, Gaston, 89

Maspero massacre, 88–94, 128, 139, 201, 253, 304, 313, 314

Maspero Youth Union, 89, 91

el Materi, Sakher, 11, 25

Matthias, Father, 88–92, 94, 314

Mattis, James, 62, 115–16, 207, 209, 211, 332, 334

McCain, John, 6

McDonough, Denis, 101, 141, 149

Mehleb, Ibrahim, 299

Mehleb, Mohamed, 299

Melia, Thomas, 223–24

el-Menawy, Abdel Latif, 51

Mhirsi, Zied, 28

Milošević, Slobodan, 40

Mohamed, Abdel Raouf, 46

Mohamed, Cheadi, 27

Mohamed, Prophet, 103, 105–8, 161, 162, 220, 307, 312

Mohamed, Sayid Fathy, 134–35

Mohamed Mahmoud Street, 99–101, 102, 113

Mohammed bin Salman, 332

Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), 45, 209, 211, 226

Moheeb, Hania, 196, 197

Mokbel, Mohamed, 203–4

Mokhtar, Gamal, 326

Monastery of St. Simon, 133

Montaser, Khaled, 259

Morayef, Heba, 4, 323

Morocco, 6, 35, 53

Morrell, Michael, 32, 43, 207, 242, 283

Morsi, Abdullah, 171

Morsi, Maya, 320

Morsi, Mohamed, 5, 42, 138, 139, 147–50, 151–64, 166, 167, 170–75, 178–80, 182–83, 184–86, 189–91, 197, 200, 203, 206–14, 221, 225–30, 240, 251, 253, 254, 256–58, 267, 283, 300, 302–5, 311, 324, 332, 334–35

Christians and, 200–202, 313

constitution and, 178, 180, 209

coup against, 214, 222, 224, 226, 230–31, 236–38, 240, 241–44, 247–54, 258, 262–65, 281, 284, 306, 323, 334, 335

final address as president, 237–38

Haddara and, 153–56

Hamas and, 173–74

imprisonment of, 316

intelligence agencies and, 199

Islam and, 156, 158, 172, 179, 180

Israel and, 173–75

June 30 protests against, 216–17, 223, 228, 230–35, 246, 254, 262, 316, 320

Kerry and, 211–13, 225, 228, 238, 242–44, 302

Muslim Brotherhood and, 138, 139, 147–50, 151, 153–57, 170, 172–73, 178, 186, 187, 212, 220–21, 235, 249

Obama and, 174, 175, 183, 208, 211, 226, 228, 234–37, 241, 244

“Operation 6” memo and, 223, 242

opposition to, 177, 180, 183, 184–88, 198, 203, 215–16, 228, 230, 234, 235, 251–52, 324

police and, 185, 196

Port Said rioting and, 195–96

Sisi and, 220–23, 226, 228–31, 234, 236–38, 242, 246–47, 262, 263, 303–6, 335

Tahrir Square appearance of, 157–59

Thanksgiving decree of, 178, 180, 182, 184, 186, 200, 212

and violence of December 5, 187–91

Morsi, Shaimaa, 170–71

Moussa, Amr, 138–39, 211, 213

Moustapha, Hisham Talaat, 21

Mubarak, Gamal, 6, 7, 11, 22, 34, 44, 171

Mubarak, Hosni, 4–7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19–22, 24, 29–31, 42, 59–61, 76, 79, 80, 88, 96, 97, 106, 107, 110, 113, 115, 116, 118, 121, 125, 126, 129, 133, 134, 136–39, 141, 146, 147, 149, 153, 155, 157, 158, 160, 162, 172–75, 178, 180–82, 184, 185, 187, 191, 197, 198, 200, 215, 221, 222, 231, 236, 240, 241, 251, 253, 259, 277, 292, 298, 299, 304, 305, 309–11, 316, 325, 332, 334

arrest and trial of, 56, 58

Christians and, 83–85, 313

judicial system and, 144–47

ouster of, 44–45, 50–52, 53, 56–57, 63, 64–65, 68, 74, 75, 85, 95, 107, 130, 145, 148, 150, 178, 202, 208, 212, 227, 229, 237, 299, 300, 317, 335

revolution and, 33–37, 39–41, 43–52

Tantawi and, 57

Wisner and, 43–44, 50

women’s rights and, 65, 66, 69, 70, 74, 75

Mubarak, Suzanne, 66, 68–69, 73, 81, 144, 171, 196

mukhabarat (intelligence agencies), 5, 25–26, 107, 182, 198–99, 215, 218, 223, 229, 257, 305, 315, 336

el-Mulla, Mokhtar, 113–14

Munita, Tomás, 167

Muslim Brotherhood, 5, 19–20, 22–23, 24, 31, 32, 36–39, 42, 47–49, 61, 63, 69, 95, 99, 100, 102, 103, 107, 109, 111–32, 146, 154, 177, 181, 185, 187, 189, 190, 193, 202, 207–10, 212, 213, 215, 220, 223, 225–38, 246, 248, 250, 253, 254, 256–59, 267–68, 280, 282–85, 289, 292–94, 297, 298, 302, 303, 305, 310, 311, 313, 314, 318, 323, 326, 328–30, 333–35

Al Qaeda and, 115–16, 209, 210

arrests, sentencing, and exile of members of, 247–48, 292–93, 300, 315

attacks on offices of, 179, 183, 187, 198–200, 232–33

constitution drafting and, 181

“Egypt Call” letter and, 293

founding of, 122–23

Hamas and, 125, 174

intelligence agencies and, 198–99

Morsi and, 138, 139, 147–50, 151, 153–57, 170, 172–73, 178, 186, 187, 212, 220–21, 235, 249

presidential election and, 138, 139, 147–50, 153

Rabaa massacre and, 270, 271, 277

Salafis and, 181–82

salute of, 292

special apparatus of, 124

as terrorists, 256, 258, 259, 263–64, 332

U.S. and, 115–18

and violence of December 5, 187–91

Muslims, see Islam, Muslims

Myers, Steven Lee, 118

el-Nabawy, Fatma, 205

Nafaa, Hassan, 57, 262

el-Naggar, Mona, 46, 47, 85

el-Naggar, Mustafa, 231

el-Naggar, Shahinaz, 12

Nagy, Ahmed, 324

Nasraoui, Radhia, 26, 28, 29

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 1–2, 6, 9, 13, 17, 18, 22, 25, 29–31, 39, 53, 68, 76, 80, 89, 104, 106, 111, 119–20, 124, 125, 144–45, 158–60, 162, 217, 229, 232, 245, 258, 292, 293, 300, 307, 310, 311

National Council of Women, 66, 68, 74, 196–97, 320

National Democratic Institute (NDI), 140–42, 322, 323

National Salvation Front, 184, 199, 201, 215–17, 223, 257, 260, 262

National Security Council (NSC), 32, 35, 43, 60, 61, 93, 101, 116, 117, 141, 148, 174, 182, 206, 226, 231, 241, 242, 279, 280, 322

NATO, 53–54

Nazra for Feminist Studies, 65, 74–77, 274, 319

Negm, Yehia, 190

Negroponte, John, 73

Nelson, Scott, 46

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 62, 227, 291

New York Review of Books, 159

New York Times, 3, 16, 22, 30–34, 40, 42, 45, 46, 50, 51, 53, 54, 60, 69, 85, 90, 97, 98, 114, 116, 159, 162, 163, 166–69, 175, 192, 196, 197, 202, 232, 246, 251, 257, 258, 269, 277, 296, 315, 318, 334, 336

Nile, 1–2, 10, 13, 229

Nixon, Richard, 18

Nour, Ayman, 19

Nour Mosque, 97–98

el-Nuqrashi, Mahmoud, 124

Obama, Barack, 4, 20, 28, 34, 35, 41, 43–45, 49–51, 60, 62, 93, 140, 142, 162, 173–75, 206, 209, 225–27, 229, 240, 265–67, 279–80, 322, 331, 333–34, 336

Haddad and, 182–83

Morsi and, 174, 175, 183, 208, 211, 226, 228, 234–37, 241, 244

Muslim Brotherhood and, 115–17

Sisi and, 297, 304, 305, 321–22

Soltan and, 296, 297, 322

Obama, Michelle, 81

al-Obeidi, Eman, 54–55

Okail, Nancy, 142

el-Omda, Mohamed, 167

Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment, 76

al-Otaiba, Yousef, 206–8, 211, 242, 332

Otpor!, 40, 97

Ouda, Huda, 99

Pakistan, 10

Palestinians, 8, 19–20, 53, 173, 175, 244, 291–92

Hamas, see Hamas

Palin, Sarah, 6

Panetta, Leon, 49, 51, 62, 63, 141–43, 152

Patterson, Anne W., 96, 146, 149, 161, 208–9, 214, 221, 222, 227–28, 230, 235–36, 265, 303

Paul, Rand, 266

Persian Gulf, 6, 35, 53, 211, 243, 252, 262, 267, 280, 302–3

Pew Research Center, 222

Police Day, 24, 29–40, 51, 58, 107, 118, 130

Politico, 333

Poppy Flowers (van Gogh), 16

Port Said, 205

soccer riot in, 194–96, 204–5

Power, Samantha, 244, 279, 280

Princeton University, 57, 115

el-Qaddafi, Muammar, 53–56, 175, 176, 269, 308

el-Qaddafi, Seif al-Islam, 55

Qasr el-Nil Bridge, 33–34, 37, 40

Qatar, 225, 265, 267, 316, 333

Qheder, Hussein, 87

Quran, 69, 105, 122, 123, 126, 156, 161, 162

Qutb, Sayyid, 124–25, 152–53

Qutri, Mahmoud, 58

Rabaa al-Adawiya, 245–51, 258–59, 264, 267–68, 306, 323

massacre at, 269–78, 279–80, 281, 284–86, 292, 294, 295, 303–5, 310, 315, 319, 328, 329, 332

Rafah, 288

Ramadan, 7, 160, 161, 248, 249, 255, 261, 264

iftar, 3, 4, 6, 7, 14, 323

Ramadan, Said, 115

Ramadan, Tariq, 115

Ramses Square, 283

Rashed, Waleed, 33

El Rashidi, Yasmine, 159

Regeni, Giulio, 327

Renaissance Project, 172

Reuters, 54, 93–94

Rhodes, Ben, 35, 43, 45, 50, 51, 60, 93, 101, 143, 148, 174, 183, 206–8, 241, 244, 265, 280

Rice, Condoleezza, 115, 117

Rice, Susan, 240, 266

Rizk, Nagla, 256–57

Rogers, Bruno, 25

Roosevelt, Kermit, Jr., 16–17, 19

Roosevelt, Theodore, 16

Ross, Dennis, 44, 116, 333–34

el-Roweini, Hassan, 95–97

Saad, Khalid, 55

Saad, Mahmoud, 59

Saad, Marwa, 271

el-Sabbagh, Shaimaa, 324–26

Sabri al-Awabdah, Abd al-Hadi, 288–89

Sabri al-Awabdah, Daoud, 288

Sadak, Reda, 46

Sadat, Anwar, 7, 11, 17–19, 31, 39, 63, 85, 106, 120, 124, 143, 144, 160, 182, 203, 219, 220, 229, 240

Sadat, Anwar (nephew of president), 299

Sadat, Jehan, 68, 171

el-Saeed, Sanaa, 76

Said, Ahmed, 184, 213

Said, Khaled, 15, 29, 40

Salafi Call, 102

Salafis, 102–10, 111, 112, 118, 131, 138, 156, 181, 187–88, 200, 233, 240

jihadists, 107, 125, 126

Muslim Brotherhood and, 181–82

in Saudi Arabia, 106

Salafiyya, 103, 104

Saleh, Sobhi, 22–23

Salman, King, 332

al-Sanhuri, Abd al-Razzak, 144

Saudi Arabia, 6, 18, 55, 102, 106, 148, 161, 182, 207–8, 225–28, 243, 244, 252, 262, 265, 326, 332, 333, 335

Sawiris, Naguib, 155, 217, 252

el-Sayed, Mustafa, 61–62

Scobey, Margaret, 4, 116, 117

September 11 terrorist attacks, 3, 62, 73, 82, 154–55, 331

Serbia, 40, 97

Sex and the Citadel (El Feki), 71

sexuality, 71–73

homosexuality, 122, 324

see also women

Shaarawi, Huda, 66–67

Shadid, Anthony, 50, 51

Shafik, Ahmed, 139, 147–49, 221, 228, 311

Shafik, Doria, 67–68, 75, 76

el-Shahawy, Mohamed, 118, 127

Shahba, Ola, 190

Shahbander, Ghada, 81

Shahin, Hassan, 78, 217

al-Shakra, Moataz Abu, 255

Shakran, Attiya, 4

Shapiro, Daniel, 32

Sharia, 69, 118, 144, 156, 176, 181, 237, 249, 250, 311

Sharif, Hussein Kamal, 229–30

el-Sharkawi, Amani, 135

el-Sharkawy, Pakinam, 197, 240

Sharp, Gene, 40

el-Shater, Khairat, 129–32, 138, 148–49, 153, 172, 178, 186, 189, 228, 266–67

el-Shazly, Mohamed Ezzat, 69

Shehata, Kamilia, 86

el-Sheikh, Ebrahim, 254–56

el-Sheikh, Mayy, 69, 77, 81, 107–8, 135, 166–68, 171, 177, 186, 195, 204, 210, 246–47, 254, 255, 264, 270–75, 281–82, 286–87

Shenouda III, Pope, 85, 86, 88, 89, 92, 93

Sherif, Mahmoud, 316

Shia Islam, 104, 116, 181, 229, 316

Shokry, Mohamed, 45

Shoman, Hazem, 105

Sidhom, Youssef, 139

Simon, Steven, 61, 101, 117, 174, 206

Sinai, 283–84, 286, 287, 289–91, 322, 333

el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 7, 44, 56, 57, 62, 78, 160–61, 167, 172, 175, 186, 196, 209, 210, 212–14, 216–18, 219–23, 226–28, 240, 243–44, 246–47, 250, 252, 258, 261–68, 277, 279, 281, 284–92, 298–327, 332–35

“Balaha” nickname for, 309–10

Christians and, 313–15

Morsi and, 220–23, 226, 228–31, 234, 236–38, 262, 263, 303–6, 335

Obama and, 297, 304, 305, 321–22

in presidential election of 2014, 305–6

revolution in Islam called for by, 311–12

Trump and, 331–32

United Nations and, 317–18, 321

vision for Egypt, 306–9

women’s rights and, 319–20

el-Sisi, Mahmoud, 327

Six-Day War, 18, 119, 242, 246–47

Sobei, Ahmed, 190

Soliman, Mohamed Ibrahim, 301

Solomon, Ben, 90

Soltan, Mohamed, 250, 270, 271, 275, 276, 295–97, 322

Soviet Union, 2, 16, 18

Spence, Matt, 211

Stack, Liam, 45–46

State Department, 43, 49–50, 60, 73, 81–82, 117, 141, 143, 168, 182, 206, 211, 223, 231, 242, 264, 266, 285, 336

Stevens, J. Christopher, 176–77

Sudan, 53, 125

Suez, 199, 309

Suez Canal, 17, 19, 194, 290, 307–8

Suleiman, Omar, 43–45, 50, 52, 60, 95, 138, 229

Sullivan, Jake, 117, 242

Sultan, Essam, 118, 126

Sultan, Farouk, 146–49, 157, 177

Sultan bin Salman, 106

Sunni Islam, 103, 104, 122, 151, 181, 316

Supreme Constitutional Court, 57, 99, 144–46, 157, 165, 166, 169, 177, 178, 180, 181, 186, 217, 263

Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), 44, 49, 51, 52, 56, 57, 60, 79, 81, 88, 113, 216, 223, 236

Suzanne’s Laws, 66, 68–69

Syria, 6, 11, 53, 85, 144, 177, 179, 190, 229, 243–44, 285–86, 309, 333

Tahrir, 78

Tahrir Square, 24, 30–31, 35–38, 41–52, 61, 64–65, 76–78, 89, 90, 95, 98, 99, 111, 118, 149, 150, 179, 185, 187, 230, 237, 238, 240, 244, 249, 250, 252, 253, 286, 311, 316, 323, 325, 328, 334

Morsi’s appearance at, 157–59

women assaulted in, 196–98

Talaat, Abeer, 86–88

Taliban, 102

Tallawy, Mervat, 66–67, 69–70, 196

talk shows, 14, 100, 252, 257, 306, 317, 318

Tamarrod, 216–18, 223, 231, 254, 258, 267

Tamim, Suzanne, 21

Tantawi, Mohamed Hussein, 56, 57, 62, 63, 98, 119, 142, 147, 157, 160, 161, 163, 167, 221

el-Tantawy, Abdel Moneim, 112

Tatanaki, Hassan, 11

Tawadros II, Pope, 202, 240, 313

Telhami, Shibley, 304

“Tell Her Father,” 74–75

Tenesa, Abraam, 314

terrorism, 311, 315, 322, 331

Muslim Brotherhood and, 256, 258, 259, 263–64, 332

September 11 attacks, 3, 62, 73, 82, 154–55, 331

Thabet, Mina, 91

Thabet, Suad, 314

Theban Legion, 88, 94

This Is Chaos, 15–16, 231

Thomas, Merna, 76

Tiananmen Square massacre, 276

al-Tilmisani, Omar, 125–26

el-Tohamy, Mohamed Farid, 300–301

Toma, Sally, 39

Trabelsi, Leila, 25

Transparency International, 301

Tripoli, 53, 55–56

Trump, Donald J., 209, 291, 304, 331–33, 335, 336

Tunis, 24–29, 176

Tunisia, 6, 11, 25–30, 117, 285, 333, 335

Turkey, 13, 265

Twitter, 32, 37, 81, 90, 99, 189, 191, 204, 256, 323, 324, 336

UNESCO, 2

United Arab Emirates (UAE), 45, 148, 161, 206–8, 218, 221, 225–28, 243, 252, 262, 265, 267, 268, 285, 302, 332, 333, 335

United Nations, 53–54, 68, 69, 161–62, 244, 285, 291, 336

Sisi and, 317–18, 321

United States, 206–14

aid to Egypt from, 3–4, 8, 16–18, 60, 96, 140–43, 148, 266, 280, 322

Egyptian revolution and, 60

and Egypt’s presidential election of 2012, 148–50

Israel and, 8, 17–18, 61–63

Muslim Brotherhood and, 115–18

presidential election of 2008 in, 6

presidential election of 2016 in, 331

van Gogh, Vincent, 16

Verveer, Melanne, 65–66

Walker, Edward, 43

Walsh, Declan, 323

Wall Street Journal, 73

Wasfi, Ahmed, 204

Washington Post, 295, 298

Wassef, Aalam, 38

Watt, James, 213

Weaver, Mary Anne, 115

WikiLeaks, 25, 43

Will, George, 312

Wisner, Frank G., 43–44, 50, 206

women, 64–82, 83, 121, 125, 126, 128, 131, 176, 203, 259

assaults on, 196–98, 318–20

Blue Bra Woman, 78–81, 320

genital mutilation and, 69

modesty and, 72

Salafis and, 105

sex and, 71–73

Sisi and, 319–20

summer marriages and, 72

virginity and, 65, 69–71, 77, 78, 81, 320

World Trade Center:

1993 bombing of, 59, 159

September 11 terrorist attack on, 3, 62, 73, 82, 154–55, 331

World War II, 17

Yaacoub, Ramy, 223–24, 242

Ya’alon, Moshe “Bogie,” 227

Yemen, 8, 53, 285, 286, 301, 309, 333

Yom Kippur War, 120

Youm el-Saba, 192

Youssef, Bassem, 163

Youssef, Ihab, 251

Youssef, Khaled, 15, 231–32

Yousseff, Mohamed Ibrahim, 135–36

zabaleen, 133

el-Zarqa, Bassem, 107

al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 107, 125, 125, 284

Zawiya, 269

Zeid, Mahmoud Abou (Shawkan), 272

el-Zend, Ahmed, 145, 146

Zeyada, Salah, 230

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