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Hi again Hossam. At the end of our last interview, we talked about events in Egypt just before the beginnings of the region-wide Arab Spring. What happened to finally trigger these massive protests ?
Khaled Said was a young, middle-class Alexandrian man whom regime police brutally tortured (...)
Editor’s Note : Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. You can read Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the Interview here, here and here. HI Hossam. We finished our last interview with the Kefaya street protests in the early 2000s. Was (...)
Editor’s Note: Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. You can read Part 1 of the Interview here and Part 2 here. Hi again Hossam. At the end of our last interview, the Soviet Union was collapsing while the Left in Egypt – (...)
Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. Hi, Hossam. We finished our last installment by focusing on the events of 1961 when the Egyptian Left was in a bad state. Did things get any better afterward ?
The third communist (...)
Editors’ Note: Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi recently interviewed Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left. Because of the length of the interview, we will be publishing it in several parts. Hello Hossam. Could you start by introducing yourself? What is your political history, (...)
Faced with the promise of finally seeing his family on Thursday 17 November and after 7 months on hunger strike, Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian activist imprisoned since 2019, a figure of the 2011 revolution, decided to start eating again on 12 November.
His family is very concerned about (...)
(Beirut) – The Egyptian government has severely curtailed environmental groups’ ability to carry out independent policy, advocacy, and field work essential to protecting the country’s natural environment, Human Rights Watch said today. These restrictions violate the rights to freedom of (...)
The Egyptian labor movement has a long history of resistance, but the current repressive regime is coming down hard on independent trade union organizing.
When Egypt appears in the international press nowadays, it is commonly about mass incarceration, torture, stifling of dissent and white (...)
The health of Hisham Fouad, a journalist and activist detained for over 2 years is deteriorating after he staged a hunger strike. Fouad, who has been held since 25 June 2019, began a hunger strike on 10 July 2021. Placed in solitary confinement, his health is now in grave danger. The (...)
Journalist Hisham Fouad has been detained for over two years since being arrested on 25 June 2019. Although the legal limit for ‘pre-trial’ detention in Egypt has now expired he remains in jail, incarcerated in a windowless cell without proper access to medical treatment. Along with former MP (...)
Egyptian novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89. The author of more than 50 books, she told me in one of our many interviews, in 2007, that she self-identified as
an African from Egypt, not from the Middle East … I am not (...)
The 2020 parliamentary elections in Egypt will be completed soon. For weeks now, even in the smallest village, the streets and squares are again wallpapered with the smiling, photoshoped portraits of the same people, as every time, and with the same slogans, as always, all the same, as if (...)
Pandemic COVID-19 invaded the world in an unprecedented way, affecting most countries with the exception of very few ones until now. This situation obliged states to block their borders in order to avoid transfers between countries. Accordingly, air flights were cancelled and tourism became a (...)
Can we venture to declare that Egypt has arrived at a new and dangerous turning point? Yes and no. For although nothing significant has materialized recently, the specter of a major shift looms. While our capacity to act, to take initiative, or even to think has been completely crippled, (...)
The recent protests demanding the fall of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi were Egypt’s largest since the 2013 military coup. Years of repression have devastated the organized opposition and its networks — but a fresh revolt by Egyptian youth has shown that the regime is anything but secure.
On (...)
by the Revolutionary Socialists, 21 September 2019
Whatever the outcome of the demonstrations we are witnessing, and whether or not you stand with them or against them, it is certain that the grip of terror on the hearts of people across Egypt is slackening and that the wall of fear built by (...)
President Sisi is playing cat and mouse with us, shutting down our websites and blocking our social media but we won’t give in.
As the world watches the peaceful revolution that is changing Sudan in awe and amazement, it is clear that in Egypt, Sudan’s neighbour to the north, President Abdel (...)
The Egyptian Parliament is expected to adopt earlier this week a constitutional reform that will eradicate the latest achievements of the 2011 revolution and allow Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to remain in power until. . . 2030.
Throughout the six years that marked President Abdelfatah al-Sisi’s (...)
Former activist charged with ‘spreading false news’ and having ‘indecent material’
An Egyptian woman who made a video alleging sexual harassment has been given two years in prison and a fine on charges of “spreading false news”.
Amal Fathy, an actor and a former activist, uploaded a video (...)
‘Broadcasting false rumours’ criminalised as government imprisons journalists and bloggers to stifle dissent
When officers from Egypt’s National Security Agency came crashing into Amal Fathy and Mohammed Lotfy’s house on a pre-dawn raid in early May, there was little mention of the words (...)
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