The Great Dictator
And this tragically has been the thread that runs through the dictatorships of President Mubarak to President Sisi to President Assad via the heady upheaval at Cairo’s Tahrir Square in February 2011.
And this tragically has been the thread that runs through the dictatorships of President Mubarak to President Sisi to President Assad via the heady upheaval at Cairo’s Tahrir Square in February 2011.
Quite palpably it hasn’t on any of the four parameters and the country is still floundering in search of its moorings, as with several countries in the Arab world.
The former president succeeded Anwar Sadat, who was assassinated on October 6, 1981 while attending a military parade to commemorate the 1973 war.
It is a quirk of history that the country’s first democratically elected President in 2012, one who personified the Islamist surge, was ousted by the military, intrinsically a legacy of the Mubarak era.
Egyptians start voting Saturday in a referendum that aims to cement the rule of President Abdel Fattah al-Sis.
The two sons of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak were arrested on Saturday for alleged stock manipulation, a judicial source said.
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The clock has been turned back. Six years after the Arab Spring, Egypt's repressive dictator, who was toppled in 2011…
The clock has been turned back. Six years after the Arab Spring, Egypt's repressive dictator, who was toppled in 2011…
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was set free on Friday and left the military hospital where he had spent most…
