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 … ]
Despite promising to pursue a peace settlement, Saudi Arabia has continued its destructive bombing campaign in Yemen. At home, Saudi authorities last week executed 37 people in one day on ambiguous charges. Since March 26, [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has recently executed 37 people after they were sentenced to death based on ambiguous charges. Unfortunately, the real murderers who plotted and killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last [ More … ]
Even if the White House is in denial about al-Sisi’s harm to regional instability, Congress shouldn’t be. On the last day of 1977, President Jimmy Carter called U.S. ally Iran “an island of stability in [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have detained an economist who wrote a book disputing argument made by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, his wife has said. The book criticizes al-Sisi for what it says is his lack of vision to remedy [ More … ]
Egypt has a “chronic problem” with the arbitrary detention of activists and bloggers after a “significant escalation” in the country’s crackdown on social dissent, the UN said on Tuesday. Since 2013, international human rights groups [ More … ]
Social media activists in Egypt circulated a video for Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, the sons of Egypt’s autocratic President Hosni Mubarak who was overthrown by January Revolution in 2011, attending a football match at Cairo [ More … ]
A recent field study for the Egyptian Center for Media and Public Opinion Takamol Masr found that 74% of the Egyptians refuse the continuation of the al-Sisi regime while 11% only wanted the regime to continue and [ More … ]
The young people are the main assets of nations as they are the ones who lead the country’s development and modernization. However, in most countries -a youth bulge, which leads to an economic boom, are [ More … ]
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