Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
Illicit underground lifelines to Egypt took a beating, but owners are digging in again. By Sarah A. Topol.
Sarah A. Topol is a Cairo-based journalist. She has reported from Yemen, Libya, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Businessweek, Foreign Policy, GQ, Harper's, Newsweek, the New Republic, and Slate, among others.
Mideast Peace
Sami Al Ajrami is the only Palestinian reporter working for an Israeli paper in Gaza—and his goal is to explain each wounded society to the other. Sarah A. Topol reports from Gaza City.
Sarah A. Topol reports on the generation of young Palestinians trapped in Gaza.
Abdelrahman Mansour struck the spark that ignited Egypt’s revolution. Now the wired activist is in Hamas territory, filming Israel’s air war from ground level. Sarah A. Topol reports.
NO END
A rise in civilian casualties brings pressure to end the operation in Gaza. By Sarah A. Topol and Dan Ephron.
As the presidential vote nears, gangs of men have been assaulting women at the birthplace of the nation’s revolution.
Security forces shutter human rights organizations on the eve of democratic elections, Sarah A. Topol writes.
The beating of a female protester has reignited the country’s stalled women’s movement.
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, dozens of journalists have been detained. Sarah Topol talks to the families as they desperately wait for their loved ones.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s web geeks are transforming Egypt’s Islamist group from a shadowy organization with power bases in mosques and charities to a media-savvy machine.