Speaking on the national dialogue, a recently announced public consultation process that is billed to involve all political actors in the country, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appeared on Saturday to warn off prospective participants who intend to criticize the state’s performance.

An online video released by the youngest son of Egypt’s late autocrat Hosni Mubarak in which he declared that his family had been cleared of corruption charges by the ‘EU courts and beyond’ has sparked mixed reactions over the past hours.

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Peter Oborne explains how the opponents of repressive regimes are often portrayed as a mortal threat to the West.

Several prominent opposition politicians who have been sidelined by the state in recent years made a high profile appearance at the annual Egyptian Family Iftar on Tuesday, where the president called for a yet-to-be-defined “national dialogue.”

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has claimed he did not scheme against toppled former leader Mohamed Morsi, who died in an Egyptian courtroom in 2019, on Tuesday.

When Yarema Dukh set up Ukraine’s official Twitter account in 2016, he knew that social media was the best way for his country to get its message out.

Earlier this week, a former prime minister of Qatar claimed that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was not qualified to run the state during the short-lived government of the first freely-elected Egyptian President, Dr Mohamed Morsi.

This July will mark 70 years of military rule in Egypt. Other than the one-year interregnum of 2012-13 under President Mohamed Morsi, when the military hovered in the wings plotting his overthrow, officers have exercised unbroken, absolute power, thus setting a world record for the duration of military dictatorship.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood announced on Sunday that its members who are working to divide the movement will be “disowned”. The Brotherhood used its website to accuse “some members” of “violating its regulations and rejecting all attempts to unite the ranks.”

The Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi never misses a chance to condemn the 25 January revolution, deriding it as the “conspiracy which almost broke Egypt”, and would have left it in ruins – another Syria, Iraq or Libya. He doesn’t stop there – again and again we hear him blame …