Author: Shady Lewis Botros

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Street scene in Cairo: A father rides a motorbike with his five children (photo: picture alliance/ dpa/ Matthias Toedt)

Overpopulation and Sisi regime propaganda

Egypt's people – nothing but a burden and a nuisance

Looking to mobilise the Egyptians, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and his ministers will refer to them as the "people". As soon as the Egyptians demand something of the state, however, they are a burden. Apparently, it is not the state that is accountable to the people, but the people who are accountable to the state, writes Shady Lewis Botros in his essayMore

Social utopia on the Nile? Sisiʹs new breed of EgyptiansSocietal repression in Egypt: The tentacles of autocracyEgyptʹs 2018 presidential elections: Blatant autocracyEgypt's deepening economic crisis: Abdul Fattah al-Sisi’s vanity projects
President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on the 'campaign trail' (photo: Getty Images/A. Berry)

Egyptʹs 2018 presidential elections

Blatant autocracy

No-one is under any illusion about the forthcoming presidential elections in Egypt at the end of March. With the current regime shamelessly and unambiguously issuing instructions to one political party after another to put up candidates, the outcome will be a sham, argues Shady Lewis BotrosMore

Interview with Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany: ''Mubarak's regime remains intact''Interview with the Egyptian historian Khaled Fahmy: ''The army lacks a vision for the future''The role of Egypt′s armed forces: A military empire
A Egyptian Copt vents his grief and anger following the terrorist attack in Tanta (photo: Reuters/M. Abd el Ghany)

Terror attack on Egypt′s Christian minority

Why the Coptic focus?

Last week′s heinous bus attack was just the latest in a wave of brutal terrorist strikes by the Islamic State group on Egypt′s minority community of Coptic Christians. In his essay, the Egyptian writer Shady Lewis Botros looks at why the Copts in particular are bearing the brunt of these vicious assaultsMore

Egyptian Copts flee the Sinai: "They're slaughtering us like chickens"Egypt′s Coptic Church: The cost of a cornerstoneChristians in Egypt: Persecuted and forgotten