In late September, protests erupted throughout Egypt in response to the widespread and systemic corruption of the regime of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Predictably, the Egyptian security forces responded with a heavy hand, arresting thousands of [ More … ]
As Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt prepares constitutional changes that could keep him in power until 2034 and enhance military control over the country, President Trump is preparing to welcome him to the White House This [ More … ]
An Egyptian prosecutor ordered on Tuesday that a lawyer to be detained for 15 days after the publication of a picture of him wearing a yellow vest similar to those worn by protesters in France, a [ More … ]
An Egyptian court has agreed to hear a challenge to the two-term limit for the presidency, a potential first step towards changing the constitution to allow Abdel Fattah el-Sisi a third term as president. [ More … ]
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is stuck between a rock and a hard place. Carnegie said in a paper titled: “Egypt’s Regime Faces an Authoritarian Catch 22”. The paper stated that Egypt’s economic crisis which is the harshest in [ More … ]
Three weeks after the military coup against the first democratically President Mohamed Morsi, Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi asked the Egyptians in 2013 to give the army the mandate to fight terrorism. Al-Sisi addressed the Egyptian public [ More … ]
In al-Sisi’s Egypt, the youths are exposed to torture, imprisonment, expulsion from Universities, and losing their chances to study. Hundreds of Egyptian youth have been deprived of their rights to study in Egyptian universities for [ More … ]
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