Favorite Since at least the end of World War II, supporting the world’s worst despots has been a central plank of U.S. foreign policy, arguably its defining attribute. The list of U.S.-supported tyrants is too long to count, but the strategic rationale has been consistent: In a world where anti-American sentiment is prevalent, democracy often…
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Egypt’s Newspapers in Open Revolt Over Police Attack on Press Freedom
Favorite Egyptian newspapers, including the state-owned daily Al Ahram, have escalated a showdown with their government by adding the slogan “journalism is not a crime” to their websites and printing photo-negative images of the interior minister to protest the arrest of two journalists in a police raid on the press union headquarters in Cairo earlier…
Protesters Return to Egypt’s Streets, Denouncing Sisi for Giving Islands to Saudi Arabia
Favorite It is not a revolution, yet, but thousands of protesters returned to Egypt’s streets on Friday, using slogans from the 2011 uprising to voice their discontent with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Most of the anger was focused on the president’s recent decision to give King Salman of Saudi Arabia two uninhabited islands, Tiran and…
Threat Against Trump on Facebook Leads to Deportation Order for Egyptian Student
Favorite AN EGYPTIAN STUDENT in California has been detained by immigration authorities and is facing deportation after he posted a hostile comment on Facebook against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. In early February, Emad Elsayed posted a photo of Trump on Facebook and wrote a post to the effect of, “If I killed this guy…
Egypt Bars Journalist From Leaving Country as Crackdown on Dissent Widens
Favorite One of Egypt’s leading investigative journalists, Hossam Bahgat, was prevented from boarding a flight to Jordan today when officials at Cairo International Airport informed him that his name had been added to a list of citizens barred from traveling abroad. Bahgat, who was detained and interrogated for three days in November by military intelligence…
U.S. Government Celebrates Its Arming of the Egyptian Regime With a YouTube Video
Favorite The Egyptian regime run by the despotic General Abdelfattah al-Sisi is one of the world’s most brutal and repressive. Last year, Human Rights Watch documented that that Egyptian “security forces have carried out mass arrests and torture that harken back to the darkest days of former President Hosni Mubarak’s rule.” Just two months ago, the group warned that…