by Rajvi Amin | Apr 14, 2021 | Georgia State University
The violation of human rights is a tough price to pay to bring stability to a country, at least in the eyes of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. al-Sisi has been in office since 2014, after leading a military coup-d’etat against the Islamist President Mohammed...
by Clara Fong | Apr 29, 2019 | University of Chicago
Amidst the Arab Spring Movement in 2011, Egypt was one of several in the region to successfully overthrow their government, igniting inspiration of a democratic future. Today, however, the continuous political unrest and lack of economic prosperity have led the public...
by Justin Saint-Loubert-Bie | Apr 25, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Egyptian people ratified constitutional amendments significantly expanding President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s power in an April referendum. The vote, which closed on April 22, left el-Sisi with greater power to appoint judges to important courts, as well as the...
by Willie Wells | Apr 14, 2018 | University of Memphis
It has been four years since Egyptians elected their last president. They are returning to the polls this week (Mar 26-28), to re-elect Abdel- Fattah el-Sissi, their incumbent president, to another four-year term. This election will be flawed. The other candidates...
by SABRINA NATALIE AMAYA | Mar 15, 2018 | University of California, Los Angeles
During the last nine years Egypt’s government has transitioned from a dictatorship to a presidential-parliamentary system. In 2011, Egyptians decided to remove then President Hosni Mubarak who had been president for thirty years. He was actually a dictator. When...
