As the Egyptian military issues “Communique #1” and Mubarak’s ouster appears imminent, Swampland’s very cursory guide to military figures to watch follows: 1) Egypt’s chief of staff of the armed ...

For several days now, videos have been posted on social media showing what is supposedly a threatening buildup of Egyptian military forces in the Sinai area near the border of Israel, Egypt and the ...

When it happened, Egypt’s February 2011 revolution seemed an epochal global event. If Cairo was not the birthplace of the Arab Spring, it was its apogee. The people of the Arab world’s most populous, ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be the make-or-break test of his new power—and if he could maintain it.