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Why Biden must shut down U.S. support to the brutal el-Sissi regime in Egypt Egypts dictator is trying to repair his image — and preserve billions in U.S. aid — with Trump out of office February 12, 2021 11:30AM (UTC) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi waits for a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Cairo September 13, 2014. Kerry arrived in Cairo on the latest leg of a regional tour to forge a coalition against Islamic State jihadis...

Biden Should Stop Payment on U.S. Funds to Sisi’s Egypt (Image by CODEPINK) By Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin Under Donald Trump’s presidency, Egypt, as well as Saudi Arabia, Israel, the UAE, and other repressive regimes, had virtually free reign to commit unchecked human rights abuses without worry that they might be chastised or lose U.S. diplomatic and financial support. But when Joe Biden won the 2020 election, President Sisi of Egypt started t...

They should put a “stop payment” on the U.S. taxpayer-funded check that has enabled Sisi to operate with impunity.

When Biden won the election, Sisi of Egypt started to worry US aid to Egypt would be cut, so he hired lobbying powerhouse Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck for $65,000 a month.

Published date: 23 January 2021 19:33 UTC | Last update: 1 month 3 weeks ago The Capitol riot shook the US to its core. Yet with Egypt, Washington was happy to look the other way when a democratically elected president was deposed by a mob Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a bilateral meeting with US president Donald Trump in New York in 2018 (AFP) Its not just Hollywood. America loves a happy ending. The bad guy skulks off, having wreaked havoc, his ...

In early 2011, as she watched the removal of the graffiti that had been scrawled around Tahrir Square in the heady days of the popular uprising, followed by a “cleansing” of that space of revolt, Dina Heshmat realized she was witnessing the deliberate rewriting of history, a deletion of the people’s spontaneous discourse, to be replaced by a more elitist narrative. Guided by this awareness, Heshmat sets out, in Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film, (Edinburgh University Pre...

Nearly 10 years ago, in February 2011, British prime minister David Cameron set out on a tour of the Gulf states, all close UK allies, with a bevy of representatives of the UK defence industry in tow. Occurring in the middle of the Arab Spring, when repressive regimes were being toppled in popular uprisings, the government feared its lucrative cosiness with Gulf autocrats could send the wrong message and it tacked a last-minute stopover on to the itinerary: Egypt, where veteran ruler Hosni Muba...

As a charismatic revolutionary from a scrappy Cairo neighbourhood, Ahmed Hassan was one of the stars of Jehane Noujaim’s 2013 documentary The Square, which followed a group of Egyptian activists as they toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak in 2011 and then fought to keep their faltering revolution alive. The film won three Emmy Awards and was nominated for the Oscars. But Hassan’s life got harder after it was released. His work as a cinematographer and filmmaker dried up as production compa...

Published date: 21 December 2020 15:43 UTC | Last update: 3 months ago The French president is launching nothing less ambitious than a secular crusade. Not to save Jerusalem, but to save Frances imaginary republican soul French President Emmanuel Macron on 14 December (AFP) For four years, French prosecutors strained every sinew to prove that a multinational jihadist conspiracy was behind the attacks on the newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish superm...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi It is high time for US and EU to get tough with Trumps "favorite dictator"-Egypts President Abdel-Fatah al- Sisi ANI | Updated: Dec 21, 2020 11:54 IST By John Solomou Nicosia [Cyprus], December 21 (ANI): The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ruler of the most populous Arab country, in his seven-year iron rule has been violating almost all human rights of the relevant Universal Declaration, but so far has b...