ing the constitution and a parliamentary election in early 2014. While the political action has centered in Cairo, there have been reverberations in the Sinai peninsula where, according to press reports, the Egyptian military in co- ordination with Israel is undertaking a large-scale military operation against Islami

pt: a bombing that killed three South Korean tourists and an Egyptian bus driver in Taba on February 16th has sent shockwaves through the resorts in the Sinai peninsula (one of the few relatively active tourist spots in Egypt during the last three years of unrest). The al-Qaida—inspired Ansar Beit al- Maqdis took re