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Items by Sharif Ayman
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It is a disgrace that the marginalisation of Nubian Egyptians is ongoing
Ten Egyptian citizens living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were sentenced to between 10 and 18 years in prison last week. Their “crime” was to commemorate the 1973 October War, and they were sentenced by the notorious Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh. The court is fast becoming an instrument…
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Sisi’s equation: inflation in exchange for borrowing
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received the Human Development Report in Egypt for the year 2021 in mid-September, and the Egyptian political system celebrated the report, which was issued after a 10-year absence. The report praised what the post-2013 regime had achieved. Its introduction supported its path, despite the repression associated with…
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Normalisation by Gulf States is different
When the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1978, the people of Egypt were not ready for it. However, his limited knowledge of governance and administration, as a former army officer, prompted him to say that the US holds 99 per cent of…