Amr Hamzawy

The Ju­di­cial Bod­ies Law threat­ens the in­de­pen­dence of ju­di­cia­ry turn­ing it into an are­na for ex­pand­ing Sisi’s pow­ers.

Egypt’s new au­thor­i­tar­i­an­ism has ex­ac­er­bat­ed so­ci­etal di­vi­sions by sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly prop­a­gat­ing al­ter­na­tive facts.

Uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus­es re­main a site of op­po­si­tion to the new au­thor­i­tar­i­an­ism and its poli­cies.

Six years on, Egypt’s new au­thor­i­tar­i­an­ism has utilised var­i­ous tac­tics, in­clud­ing re­pres­sion and ju­di­cial ma­nip­u­la­tion.

How the Egypt­ian regime used the law to crack down on op­po­si­tion and iso­late voic­es of dis­sent.

Is the Arab world back to square one af­ter all the sac­ri­fices it has made since 2011?