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Sisi’s Egypt

Anatomy of a counter-revolution and its epigonic figurehead. Shifting relations of military, state security and business networks, in the ad-hoc construction of a regime more repressive than its predecessor. Hazem Kandil discusses the merciless crackdown on the Bedouin in Sinai, and consoling myths of the Muslim Brothers.

Whose Golden Age?

Hazem Kandil on Alaa Al Aswany, On the State of Egypt. The author of The Yacoubian Building yearns for a lost golden age of liberalism.

Revolt in Egypt

An Egyptian sociologist gives an in-depth account of Mubarak’s overthrow, from the social tensions of the dictatorship’s final years to the present ferment of transition. The old regime’s structures of rule, and the prospects for the new dispensation emerging from its shadow.