Hany Hanna lived in France for many years where he was a trade union activist. Hany He returned to live in his native Egypt after Mubarak’s fall. He works there as a freelance journalist and translator.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
