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On The Listening Post this week: Eight years since the revolution, the squeeze on Egypt’s embattled media is tighter than ever before. Plus, President Sisi’s talk show bias. After spring came winter: The fall of the Egyptian media It’s been eight years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak and the uprising that briefly liberated Egyptians […]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Everyday at sunset, Ahmed Maher, one of Egypt’s best known activists, says good night to his family and heads to a Cairo police station to spend the night under police watch. While what he describes as ‘half an imprisonment’ has disrupted his family life, career and education, Maher considers himself luckier than

A third term? Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) giving a speech during his swearing-in ceremony for a second four-year term in office, at the parliament meeting hall in the capital Cairo, last June. (AFP) Hasaballah referred to political, economic and security challenges that make Sisi remaining in office a necessity. CAIRO – A senior

In his interview on CBS, the General-turned-President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi looked visibly uncomfortable as he lied, evaded questions and downplayed the many crimes he has committed since taking power in 2013 through a military coup against the first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi. It is no surprise that he demanded CBS pull the interview for the first time

It is telling that, only shortly after President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi sat down with the U.S. broadcaster CBS, the Egyptian government tried to prevent the interview’s release. Enticed to take part in a “60 Minutes” interview through an appeal to his vanity, Sissi quickly realized that the questions — and his answers — were not