Tag:Abdel Fattah el-Sissi

By Khalid Hassan- Al MonitorBrig. Gen. Mohamed Samir, a former spokesman for the Egyptian armed forces, assumed the position of director general at Al-Aseema...

By Abdelaziz Al-Sharafy - Al-WatanAmerican historian and analyst Daniel Pipes said he expects that the bill put forward by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to classify...

By Al-Masry Al-YoumPresident Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's latest statements to Egypt's Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb have publically revealed disagreement and tension between him and...

By Eric Trager – Foreign Affairs - Six years ago today, tens of thousands of Egyptians descended on downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding “bread, freedom,...

By Pomed -On November 29, Egypt’s parliament approved a restrictive new law to govern the country's NGO community, which decried the law as an...

By By Peter Hessler - The New YorkerPresident Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined.The...

Al Monitor“I want to tell you that we’ve been concerned with controlling the media from the very first day the army took over power...

ERBIL, Iraq—Just days before Christmas, a leading human rights lawmaker, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) went to Iraq to witness first-hand the plight of Christians...