The official sessions of the national dialogue kicked off on May 14 under a cloud of mistrust amid ongoing persecution of regime critics Former Karama (Dignity) Party head Ahmed Tantawi left Egypt last year after [ More … ]
Egypt launched a national political dialogue last Wednesday that authorities said was meant to generate debate around the country’s future, though the chair of the event said several areas of discussion would be off limits. [ More … ]
HRW says if Egypt’s Sisi is serious about inclusivity of the dialogue he had called for, he should show good faith by instructing his authorities to halt the targeting of critics abroad. Human Rights Watch [ More … ]
While at home Sisi warns critics not to “talk about things of which you don’t know”, and pro-democracy activists are convicted on “false news” charges. Egypt’s FM in Davos promises to allow protests at COP [ More … ]
Mohammed bin Salman’s effort to burnish his image as a modernizing force of liberal reform knows no boundaries. On January 15, 2019, The New Yorker, an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, [ More … ]
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