Egypt is fighting climate change with rhetoric, not action
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s speech at the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP26) aroused much praise, especially from his media outlets, as it carried many good pledges, including increasing the contribution of renewable energy sources in Egypt’s energy mix to…
A nation at risk as Egypt suffers from a shortage of tutors
It took the government seven years to be convinced that there is a severe shortage of teachers in public schools – amounting to 300,000 teachers – and that this shortage must be filled as soon as possible so that the…
Detained lawyer Ahmed Helmy’s case exposes Egypt’s abusive judiciary
Over a decade ago, the Egyptian regime under Mubarak used to circumvent the judiciary in its war against the political opposition. The regime used the emergency law which authorised the minister of interior to issue arrest warrants for two months…
136 Egyptians executed in 2020
The year 2020 saw 314 people being sentenced to death, and the hanging of 136 of the convicts, which is a new precedent in the history of Egyptian criminal justice institutions, which reflects the continuation of the expansion without account…
Egyptian farmers are in crisis yet the government offers no help
Olive farms in Egypt have been severely damaged this year, as their productivity decreased by more than 50 per cent. They have been affected by climatic changes and high temperatures during the flowering season of the crop in March, which…
Targeting and terrorising: That is how Sisi’s regime deals with lawyers
The Egyptian Constitution provides that: “The legal profession is an independent profession. It participates with the judiciary in achieving justice and the rule of law and ensuring the right to defence.” Also, it provides that: “While undertaking the right of…
The Egyptian parliament continues to protect corruption with immunity
As is well known, constitutions, including the Egyptian constitution, grant members of parliament immunity to protect them from accountability for the opinions they express and the duties they perform within the framework of their duties as representatives of the people,…
The hidden meaning behind Sisi’s comments about human rights in Egypt
Government institutions and circles close to the regime of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi celebrated his decision to lift the state of emergency, which had been declared in violation of the constitution since April 2017. All these parties are competing in expressing…
Welcome to Egypt, the Big Brother Republic
As in the famous 1984 novel, where the totalitarian Big Brother state imposes iron control over all members of society to record every act, comment, whisper and look, and forces everyone to spy on everyone, and punishes simple actions such…
Egypt: When the military dictatorship brags about building the largest prisons in the world
A few days ago, the Egyptian reality appeared to us stranger than fiction in the novels of utopia and dystopia together. Yes, it is a dictatorial government that celebrated the inauguration of the largest prison complex in the world in…
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