Hope Again

Today, we regained a little of the dignity we lost a year ago.

Morsi has been taken away.

My Birthday with Bassem Youssef

I wish.

I did, however, pretty much spend it with my focus on the man who has been through the political wringer. What's so great is that he did it with open arms and with as much flair as possible.

A Friday Restoring Dignity - A Week Disgracing Women

Another one of Egypt's long list of Friday protests went on last night.

Today, the smoke started to clear over Cairo's Moqattam after a "Friday of Restoring Dignity."

It's the culmination of week-long tension between thousands of anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters, the police and Brotherhood sympathizers around the group's headquarters. The biggest chunk of about 200 wounded people country-wide were from the Cairo protest.

Molotov cocktails, knives, rocks, branches. It was fiery and angry.