Between two mosques: Al-Sisi is buying a false history and demolishing the real one
August 23, 2019 Less than a year passed since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi opened his grand mosque in the new administrative capital when he made the decision to demolish a smaller mosque in the northern province of Alexandria. The area of…
The army’s dominance is catastrophic for Egypt
August 23, 2019 It’s no secret for any Egyptian that the generals are dominating all aspects of life – politics, economics, the press, academia, health and even sports. The Egyptian regime appoints the majority of directors across institutions without considering their…
In Egypt there are no trials, only slaughter
August 23, 2019 In an endless series of death sentences in Egypt, a Court in Cairo has sentenced six Egyptian defendants to death in a preliminary conviction in the case known as the “Popular Resistance Committee in Kerdasa.” In practice,…
Students are the victims of blundering in Egypt’s education ministry
August 21, 2019 High school students are suffering uncertainty and confusion in the absence of answers about the fate of their school system in the next academic year, which reinforced the feeling among students that the Egyptian regime does not…
On the anniversary of the detainees’ vehicle massacre mass killers are free
August 21, 2019 On the sixth anniversary of what is known as the detainees’ vehicle massacre, which followed the Rabaa massacre, Egyptians consider that this incident is a stark example of the contradiction in Egyptian judiciary judgments. This incident occurred…
Russia nuclear explosion frightens Egypt
August 20, 2019 Thousands of kilometres from Cairo a nuclear explosion rocked the Russian city of Severodvinsk. The explosion was analysed by the whole world, but the Egyptians had greater reasons to worry. The Russian nuclear reactor at the site…
The roar of poverty pushes Egyptians to psychological illness and crime
August 20, 2019 Crimes committed by so-called psychological patients in Egypt have increased. Scientific research conducted by the National Centre for Criminal and Social Research in Cairo has revealed that 25 per cent of the Egyptian population has various psychological…
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…
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…
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