Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by RAMI Hadi
Over 100,000 Palestinians have fled to Egypt during the war. Feeling stranded by the state and the PA, they describe a precarious existence in legal limbo.
Palestinians who fled their homes wait at the Rafah border crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2023. (Abed Rahim (…)
, by EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
WHAT EGYPTIANS OWE PALESTINIANS
Since the start of Israel’s latest assault on Gaza, the Egyptian regime has once again come into the spotlight. Many are wondering why Cairo is effectively supporting Israel’s genocidal war by shutting down the Rafah Crossing.
The regime’s position is (…)
, by PÉREZ Alfons, SCHERER Nicola
Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population expelled from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?
Aleaked document written by Gila Gamaliel, the Israeli intelligence minister, came to light in late October amid the devastating war in Gaza.
It set out a proposal (…)
, by ABOU-EL-FADL Reem
Watching this genocide unfold on their doorstep has jolted many Egyptians into action, from boycotting western products to protest marches
Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza is shaking relations between states and citizens across the Middle East. In Egypt, events have pushed the political (…)
, by MAMDOUH Rana
Security forces dispersed on Sunday evening hundreds of teachers who had gathered outside the Education Ministry headquarters in the new administrative capital to protest what they described as obscure and prejudiced hiring criteria in a recent public education program.
Facing a substantial (…)
, par BUTLAND Phil, EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
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 and (…)
, par BUTLAND Phil, EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
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 (…)
, by BUTLAND Phil, EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
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 – as (…)
, par BUTLAND Phil, EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
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 wave (…)
, by BUTLAND Phil, EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
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, (…)
, by The family of Alaa Abdel Fattah
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 his (…)
(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 assembly (…)
, by EL-HAMALAWY Hossam
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 (…)
, by International Federation of Journalists
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 (…)
, by Egypt Solidarity Initiative
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 (…)
, by NEWSON Adele
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 (…)
, by URABI Hipatia
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 (…)
, by CTUWS
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 (…)
, by NAEEM Mohamed
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, (…)
, by EL HAMALAWY Hossam
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 September (…)
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