“In summer 2011, I played my last intramural football game as a senior at Ohio State University. Two short years later, I found myself running, not from would-be tacklers, but for my life, from an [ More … ]
Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was “saddened” by a similar campaign a few weeks ago, reports Reuters. The Twitter hashtag “Leave, Sisi” was the [ More … ]
How the Obama administration watched the demise of Arab democracy — and paved the way for Trump’s embrace of dictators. President Trump boasts that he has reversed American policies across the Middle East. Where his [ More … ]
Egypt’s jailed former President Mohamed Morsi “is not an ordinary prisoner” and “if something happens to him in custody, there are likely to be wider consequences than simply just the fate of one prisoner,” Crispin [ More … ]
After it ousted the military competitors from the political scene, al-Sisi military regime enters a new confrontation with the same politicians who supported al-Sisi’s military coup against Mohamed Morsi. Now the leaders of the National [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Founding anniversary commemoration ceremonies and activities are not only a means of a celebratory cheer and joy in the AK Party, but also of self-criticism and self-consciousness. The AK Party continues to play [ More … ]
BY: Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh* When Al-Sisi staged his coup against the first democratically elected president in Egypt in 7,000 years, he said his famous line: “Tomorrow, you’ll see Egypt will be on top of [ More … ]
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has warned that it was too early to say the fight against the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) was over, adding that the organization’s full structure is not yet known. “It is [ More … ]
By Neil Ketchley* Four years ago, Gen. (now President) Abdel Fatah al-Sisi appeared on Egyptian television to announce the suspension of the recently passed Constitution and the removal of the country’s first democratically elected president, [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Exactly four years ago, the bloodiest and most savage military coup of the 21st century was perpetrated against Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president in its 4,000-year history. Morsi was sent directly [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* Cases related to the July 15, 2016 coup attempt have started. In the first place of the legal process, the pleas of defendants are being heard in line with the indictments that were [ More … ]
Turkey on Sunday accused Germany of supporting the network of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric it blames for last year’s attempted coup, comments likely to aggravate a diplomatic feud between the two countries. Germany and [ More … ]
BY: MOHAMMAD PERVEZ BILGRAMI* Saudi Arabia’s most notable counterrevolution product, Egypt’s coup leader Al-Sisi, who Saudi Arabia magnanimously helped to bring to power, has not only started cozying with anti-Saudi forces in the region, but [ More … ]
The surprises of 2017 are coming from the very first day. Sameh Abu Arayes, one of the supporters of al-Sisi and the military coup in 2013 has criticized the al-Sisi regime and publicly apologized to Morsi [ More … ]
One week after he complained against preventing prison visitation of his father for over three years, Al-Sisi arrests “Usama”, Morsi’s son and lawyer. The Egyptian security forces at al-Sharqeya governorate (President Morsi’s hometown) detained Usama, son of [ More … ]
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