Has al-Sisi launched a programme to assassinate opponents abroad?
Mohamed Ali, an Egyptian businessman living abroad, said the Egyptian embassy in Spain, where he lives, sought to lure him. This came after he broadcast video clips of widespread corruption scandals that seniors within the Egyptian regime of General Abdel…
What distorts Egypt’s image, the press or repression?
Every time General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime arrests a journalist, the Egyptian question is repeated: “What deforms Egypt’s image, the press or repression?” The Egyptian regime detains dozens of journalists and usually they are charged with publishing false news and…
Mubarak’s return shakes al-Sisi’s throne
With a face that Egyptians had not seen before, the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had a lengthy conversation with the Egyptians, the first of its kind since the revolution that ousted him from power in 2011. Mubarak appeared for…
The military wants reconciliation, but al-Sisi refuses
Between the calls for reform and the arrests, the Egyptian regime seems to be walking with two different heads, led by two competing fronts. Egypt is currently witnessing a number of contradictions: a front calling for reform and releasing political…
The impossible reform: al-Sisi’s regime is out of balance
The Egyptian regime has panicked after sudden, popular demonstrations broke out on September 20 demanding the president leave. The regime thought it crushed any possible movement in the streets after killing, arresting and forcibly disappearing more than 60,000 opponents and…
Egyptian intelligence exploits halal certificates to inflate its wealth
In what observers considered a shock to the imported meat market in Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture made a decision that only the IS EG Company would be able to issue halal certificates, which came into effect at the…
The general retreats: 5 achievements of protesting
Protests stormed the streets of Egyptian provinces in the weeks of September. People, for the first time during General al-Sisi’s mandate, announced their refusal of his politics and demanded his ouster. The events reshaped the political scene in Egypt and…
Egypt protests expose the fragility of the economy
After a few days of sporadic and rare protests in Egypt, the Central Bank of Egypt announced that net foreign direct investment in Egypt fell by roughly $1.8 billion, or 23 per cent, during the fiscal year 2018/2019. Foreign investment…
Arresting lawyers: Al-Sisi raises the level of repression
Human rights activists have said that the Egyptian regime has raised the level of repression to a new level by arresting three lawyers as they attended investigations by the prosecution into political detainees. This came in the wake of the…
McCarthyism thrives in Egypt: Reporting opponents through Whatsapp
The Egyptian government announced the allocation of a phone number on WhatsApp called “WhatsApp Egypt” through which any citizen can report any person broadcasting “inflammatory messages” or calling for “riots or acts of sabotage,” which observers consider means McCarthyism is…
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