In Egypt a pharaoh rises as a nation is destroyed

Egypt is a nation cocooned in a nightmare, its elite devoid of ideas and adrift in changing region and world.

The philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote that ‘behind every fascism, there is a failed revolution’. Well, in Egypt, behind its very own modern ‘fascism’—or for the pedantic, ‘totalitarianism’—you’ll find the corpses of revolutionaries. The regime’s dungeons are packed full of them too – tortured, broken and often condemned people stuffed away in the dark. In Cairo, a pseudo-parliament, General Abdel Fatah el Sisi’s Maglis El Nowwab, is packed full of only his most loyal and servile kleptocratic cronies. CLICK HERE to read the full story.