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Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist

Hoda Ahmed, Chedid Khairy — 2021-09-17T07:14:59Z

Reda Ibrahim Farag, a former leader of the Egyptian revolutionary Marxist current, died in Cairo on 4 August 2021. He played an important role in the constitution and leadership of a revolutionary organization from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Egypt, Features

Still the gift of the Nile?

Hoda Ahmed — 2020-10-18T07:49:52Z

Herodotus's formula is well known: “Egypt is the gift of the Nile”. But it seems that, 2,500 years after the death of the Greek historian, this will no longer be the case.

- IV549 - October 2020 / Ecology and the Environment, Egypt, Sudan

Sisi government the most repressive in Egyptian history

Hoda Ahmed — 2020-07-09T07:14:35Z

Reporters Without Borders' latest ranking places Egypt in 166th place out of 180 countries, down three places from last year. The Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECFR) recorded, from 20 September to 21 October, 2019, 4,321 imprisonments, 2,932 people remanded in custody, 55 disappearances. Journalists are paying a heavy price: between October and December 2019, 25 of them were arrested.

- IV546 - July 2020 / Egypt