Academics and student union leaders call for protests against Sisi visit

October 28, 2015

We are appalled to hear that President Abdelfattah el-Sisi of Egypt is due to visit the UK in early November. As students, university staff and academics, we condemn the British government’s uncritical support for Sisi’s regime, which is responsible for…

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Partisans Without Parties

October 28, 2015

By Emad Shahin and Jeff Martini It is tempting to describe Egypt’s parliamentary elections, which started in mid-October and will continue through December 2, as history repeating itself. When the leading party list in 2015 is headed by a former military man and leading official…

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Egypt’s new parliament: control and fragmentation

October 19, 2015

Emad Shahin 19 Oct 2015 12:28 GMT By holding parliamentary elections on October 18, Egypt completes the third and final phase of the roadmap and, presumably, another transition on the road to democracy, as the military-backed regime claims. The new parliament…

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Committee of Concerned Scientists: Death Sentence in Absentia of Egyptian Scholar Called Baseless

June 23, 2015

More than 40 academic colleagues of political science professor Emad el-Din Shahin signed an open letter of protest against an Egyptian court’s death sentence, handed down in a mass trial that lacked all elements of due process. CCS joined what…

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Un profesor de Georgetown, compañero de Mursi en el cadalso

June 17, 2015

‘Al Sisi nos usa para intimidar a la población y poner a prueba los límites de Occidente’ ‘Al Sisi está radicalizando Egipto. Los políticos españoles deberían entenderlo’ “Si se siente bajo presión, el régimen podría ejecutar a algunos líderes de…

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You think there is no alternative to Sisi’s regime in Egypt? Think again

June 16, 2015

The notion held by many in the West that Egypt’s current president, the military strongman, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is the only available option to lead the country is as erroneous as it is dangerous. The current regime’s repressive policies are stifling the…

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Ein zum Tode Verurteilter klagt an!

June 13, 2015

VON CLAUDIA HAJ ALI Washington – Emad Shahin hat eine große Liebe. Gut möglich, dass er sie nie wieder sehen wird – seine Heimat Ägypten. Der international angesehene Professor für Politik ist am 3. Januar 2014 aus Kairo geflohen und lebt seither…

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Q&A: Emad Shahin on Death Sentence, Egypt’s Future

June 9, 2015

JUNE 9, 2015 BY TOBY HUNG HOYA STAFF WRITER Emad Shahin, a visiting professor of political science at the School of Foreign Service, was sentenced to death in absentia by the Egyptian government May 16, on charges of espionage. As “Defendant 33,”…

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The four traits Sisi, Hitler and Mussolini have in common

June 9, 2015

President Sisi is building a fascist regime that is pushing Egypt into a spiral of violence and radicalisation Only two years after ousting Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi and taking over power in a military coup, General Abdel…

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