Sisi

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…

Op-Eds

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…

Op-Eds

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…

Interviews

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…

Op-Eds

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…

Interviews

Klassische Merkmale faschistischer Herrschaft

June 1, 2015

“Klassische Merkmale faschistischer Herrschaft” Auch den schlimmsten Diktatoren ist ihr Image wichtig, weswegen sich Kritik immer lohnt, findet Emad Shahin. Dafür wurde der Politikprofessor vom ägyptischen Militärregime zum Tode verurteilt. Wie effektive Einschüchterung mit kleinen Mitteln funktioniert, davon hat Emad…

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Orwellian Times in Egypt: A Conversation with Emad Shahin

June 1, 2015

Center for Middle East Studies Director Nader Hashemi hosts a discussion with Egyptian political scientist Emad Shahin, a recent Carnegie Centennial Visiting Fellow with the center. Professor Shahin discussed the current political situation in Egypt and commented on hi recent…

Media Coverage

Convicted Egypt academic denounces ‘reign of terror’

May 19, 2015

Cairo (AFP) – Egyptian authorities have unleashed a “reign of terror” against opponents of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a prominent academic who was recently sentenced to death told AFP in an interview. Emad Shahin, who fled Egypt in January 2014…

Media Coverage

Q&A: Egypt death sentences ‘a bargaining chip’

May 17, 2015

Al Jazeera spoke with Professor Emad Shahin, one of more than 100 people recently sentenced to death in Egypt. Megan O’Toole | 18 May 2015 08:57 GMT | Human Rights, Politics, Middle East, Egypt More than 100 defendants, including former…

Briefs

Egypt and the Politics of Token Reforms

April 30, 2015

Abstract This paper discusses two main challenges the current regime in Egypt faces to realize stability in the short or medium term: its ability to reconstitute the political process to make it more inclusive and more participatory and its success…