Corruption in Egypt – its guards are its thieves!

by Mahmoud Hassan “Its guards are its thieves” is a popular proverb used by common people…

Egypt under Sisi could spiral into a civil conflict by Maged Mandour

With the Egyptian military’s total capture of the state and economy, and the many crises facing…

Al-Sisi is using the war in Gaza as an excuse for more repression

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on November 15, 2023 [KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images]   Egyptian…

Egypt citizen tortured to death after police shocked wife with stun gun

Inmates are seen inside an Egyptian prison on 19 November 2019 [MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Images] The Geneva-based NGO,…

Memories of a Massacre: Revisiting Rabaa and the end of the Egyptian revolution

An anti-coup protestor walking amid burning tents during the events at Rabaa Square on 14 August…

Rabaa massacre and the death of Middle East democracy

A supporter of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi kisses an empty coffin during a fake funeral…

Egypt ‘detaining and torturing’ female relatives of IS militants in North Sinai

A picture taken on 26 July 2018 shows Egyptian policemen overlooking a street in the North…

Escape from Egypt: How I fled the media crackdown

On several occasions, the truck carrying Somaya Abdelrahman broke down in the desert north of Egypt’s…

We did not preserve, protect or take proper care of the revolution; that’s the reality

Egyptians come together, participating in the revolution that took place on 25th January [Twitter] As we…

Is Egypt on the brink of another uprising? by Mohamad Elmasry

While the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has consolidated power over all state institutions, it would…

Despair, fear, repression: Sisi is driving Egypt toward disaster by Yehia Hamed

Underlying all of Egypt’s problems was a single vision that Sisi has had from the beginning:…

Remembering the Suez Crisis and the tripartite invasion of Egypt

Port Said seen from the air during the Suez Crisis [snl.no] What: The invasion of Egypt and…

Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the scholars of the sultan by Usaama al-Azami

In this file photo, late Egyptian cleric and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars…

Yusuf al-Qaradawi: Scholar-activist who helped inspire a revolution in Egypt By Mohammad H Fadel

Yusuf al-Qaradawi pictured in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on 18 February, 2011 (AFP) Long associated with the…

Egypt: Sale of state assets to Saudi and UAE wealth funds divides opinion

The Pyramid of Khufu, seen from a canal linked to the Nile, on the outskirts of…

Rabaa massacre and the death of Middle East democracy by Usaama al-Azami

A supporter of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi kisses an empty coffin during a fake funeral…

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood rejects ‘struggle for power’, exiled leader says

Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood Ibrahim Munir on July 14, 2013 in Istanbul [OZAN KOSE/AFP via…

Why Nasser’s legacy still preoccupies the Egyptian psyche by Omar Khalifah

In his book Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary, author Omar Khalifah explores how the former president…