Breaking up the Rabaa sit-in: Between false history and lost memory
August 16, 2019 “An army officer told me literally: ‘If you think you want to prove yourself a man you’ll end up with a bullet and be thrown in the garbage like the many people today whose lives ended with…
General Abbas Kamel: The strongman in al-Sisi’s regime
August 19, 2019 General Abbas Kamel, 62, the president’s secrets keeper and the closest person to him, is the 26th president of General Intelligence, one of the so-called sovereign agencies alongside Military Intelligence and the National Security Services. The name…
Libya denounces Egypt’s interference in its internal affairs
August 19, 2019 The High Council of State in Libya condemned on Thursday what it called the blatant interference of the Egyptian government in Libyan affairs. The High Council accused Egypt of violating Security Council resolutions by supporting Libyan…
Al-Sisi signs a €350 million loan to develop the subway
August 18, 2019 The official gazette published on Thursday Republican Decree No. 76 of 2019, with the approval of President al-Sisi, a government agreement with the European Investment Bank on a project to develop and renovate the subway under which…
Egypt’s unemployment rate hits 7.5%
August 19, 2019 The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Thursday the results of the labour force research for the second quarter of 2019, where the unemployment rate reached 7.5 per cent of the total labour…
Bitter legacy of Rabaa massacre continues to haunt Egyptians
The bloody events of 14 August 2013, when Egyptian security forces killed at least 900 people during the violent dispersal of mass anti-government sit-ins in Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda squares, has cast a shadow over Egyptian society that lingers to…
In Sissi’s Egypt, It Is Always 1984 | Opinion
In much of the English-speaking world, the word Orwellian has become a throwaway term. It’s used to describe everything from CCTV cameras to staff-monitoring technology. For those in the West, Orwell’s cautionary tale about the overreach of government, total surveillance…
US teenager pleads for Trump to help free his mother from Egyptian jail
Thirteen-year-old Moustafa Hamed said he and his mother, Reem Mohamed Desouky, were looking forward to their trip to Egypt. “We were excited to come to Egypt so we could spend time with our family during summer break,” the Pennsylvania teenager…
Justice in al-Sisi’s era produces only cadavers
August 10, 2019 Reuters has published a special report in both Arabic and English on random executions which includes testimonies from families of the victims. The agency began its report with a story about the young construction worker Lotfi Ibrahim,…
Obtaining security permission: Euthanasia of the press in Egypt
August 9, 2019 “You need to get a permit from the Interior [Ministry] before any press coverage,” said one of the security leaders within the Interior Ministry in Egypt, ending any hope that journalists can continue to work in the…
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