Tag: Rizk

Explosion at Hussein Mosque in Cairo—إنفجار عند جامع الحسين بالقاهرة

Photo from AP As several people have noted, this comes at a very suspicious time, considering that the extension of the State of Emergency (in place since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, with a brief break during Sadat’s presidency) was just about to be considered once again.  Mubarak’s government has been …

The Kidnapping of Philip Rizk—إختطاف فيليب رزق

Sarah Carr has written an excellent eyewitness account and brief analysis of the kidapping of Philip Rizk, a German-Egyptian AUC graduate student in the Middle East Studies program.  He was abducted by state security forces (أمن الدولة) coming home from a march to Qalubiyya.  I generally would have just added …