Rabaa massacre: The founding social contract of Sisi’s new republic
Ten years since the biggest mass killing in the country’s modern history, the state has decimated the public’s right to dissent. Ten years ago in broad daylight, Egypt’s police and military carried out the biggest massacre in the country’s modern history. …
Egypt rebuffs US requests to arm Ukraine
Egypt has snubbed multiple requests from the US to send weapons to Ukraine, underlining how far Cairo is willing to go to maintain a neutral position on the war in Europe, despite receiving billions of dollars in US military aid. US…
How Sisi Ruined Egypt
The coup leader-turned-president promised Egyptians prosperity, but the country is flat broke. Throughout much of the summer of 2013, Egypt was in the grips of what could be described as “Sisi-mania.” Songs, sandwiches, music videos, poems, and even pajamas paid tribute to…
“Memories of Massacre” Haunts Sisi and Is Haunted by It
By Osama Gaweesh On the third of August this year, I had the honour of presenting the special screening of the global documentary film “Memories of Massacre,” which was shown in one of Britain’s most essential and prominent venues, the…
Memories of a Massacre: Documentary on Egypt’s Rabaa crackdown premieres
Nicky Bolster’s documentary chronicles the killing of hundreds of protesters in Rabaa Square after Abdel Fattah el-Sisi seized power in 2013. A documentary chronicling the killing of hundreds of Egyptian protesters at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square following the 2013 coup that swept Abdel…
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