Last month, an investigation by an international consortium of journalists revealed that Israeli contractors operating under the name “Team Jorge” claimed to have manipulated more than 30 elections worldwide, using techniques such as hacking and automated disinformation.

The defeat of the Arab Uprisings that started in 2010 in Tunisia and spread to other countries in the Arab world was, in part, the result of the revolutionaries’ own failures.

Egypt urgently needs foreign investment but President al-Sisi appears more focused on pleasing homegrown firms as next year’s elections loom. Gamal Mubarak, the son of ousted president Hosni Mubarak, sees this as an opportunity to firm up his own presidential ambitions.

Arabi 21 learned that the Egyptian General Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood and its International Shura Council elected the historic leader of the group, Dr. Salah Abdel-Haq acting Supreme Guide, succeeding the late Ibrahim Mounir and that the move will be officially announced in the coming period.

After spending over three years in self-exile, prominent Egyptian activist Mamdouh Hamza has returned, arriving in Cairo on Sunday evening a few days after an emergency court lifted his name from travel ban lists.

Last week, Saudi writers and media professionals criticised the Egyptian regime, especially what they called the army’s “escalating domination over the state, especially the economy”, in the midst of the country’s biggest economic crisis ever, nearly a decade after the overthrow of the first genuinely democratically elected government since the …

Sisi’s mismanagement has plunged the country into crisis. Both political and economic reform is needed to save it.

The Mubarak regime was the most stable of the four military regimes that have ruled Egypt in recent times. The regime witnessed no violent demonstrations thanks to the iron grip that Mubarak maintained for 30 years. He surrounded himself with an elite of political, economic and media veterans to keep …

Egyptian opposition figures and political forces based abroad have called in a letter for President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to step down and hold early presidential elections, Arabi 21 website reported.

The 25 January marks the 12-year anniversary of the Egyptian contribution to the Arab Spring, an 18-day national uprising that led to the ousting of 30-year dictator Hosni Mubarak.