Icon of Egypt’s 2011 revolution has now been missing for a month
November 8, 2018
It has been 34 days since former MP Mostafa al-Naggar went missing, with family and friends offered only conflicting information Friends, family and
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Five years on: How the UK sees opportunity and profit in Sisi’s repressive Egypt
August 16, 2018
By Mark Curtis The scale of its commercial interests makes Britain probably the leading apologist for Sisi’s regime Five years ago on 14 August,
Reporters Without Borders ‘unblocks’ website in Egypt
August 13, 2018
Reporters Without Borders said it had restored its website in Egypt on Friday, exactly one year after it was blocked by the authorities. “Access to
How the UK sees opportunity and profit in Sisi’s repressive Egypt
August 13, 2018
By Mark Curtis The scale of its commercial interests makes Britain probably the leading apologist for Sisi’s regime Five years ago on 14 August,
Why the Muslim Brotherhood was blamed for Egypt’s World Cup woes
July 23, 2018
by Abdullah Al-Arian Or how Egypt’s ruling regime tried to exploit the Egyptian football team to bolster its image. Fresh off a massively disappointing
Egypt and the coup: Draft law could mean military exempt from prosecution
July 12, 2018
Planned legislation covers a two-and-a-half year period, which includes the Rabaa massacre of 2013 Some senior Egyptian military officers could be granted immunity from
How Egyptian despots are defiling history
March 22, 2018
A kind of similarity exists between the UAE foreign minister’s recent insult to the memory of Fakhri Pasha, commander of the Medina garrison during World
Life after prison in Egypt: ‘My soul was stolen’
March 8, 2018
CAIRO – In a Cairo cafe close to Tahrir square, Akram Fatouh recalls the day, more than three years ago, when dozens of armed men stormed
Hesham Genena injured during kidnap attempt: lawyers
February 5, 2018
Egypt’s former top auditor and a leading member of an opposition campaign against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was seriously injured during a suspected kidnapping attempt, lawyers
After Sisi’s purge of rivals, is he safe from the generals?
February 5, 2018
A few days before Ahmed Shafiq announced his short-lived run for the Egyptian presidency, a meeting was held in Cairo to decide who should mount