Sisi presidency

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Sisi presidency • 15 min read

Sisi’s ‘final’ term?

Rana Mamdouh | Impending constitutional amendments aim to extend presidential term limits

7 June 2018

Sisi speeches • 16 min read

Thus spoke Sisi

Asmahan Soliman | Four years and beyond of the president’s discourse

24 March 2018

2018 presidential elections • 13 min read

Analysis: How Sisi has been sidelining his opponents

Asmahan Soliman | Sources reveal how Sisi has been handling opposition from the upper echelons of power

10 February 2018

constitutional amendments • 16 min read

Expanding the powers and mandate of Egypt’s president

Rana Mamdouh | "There is a governing article in the Constitution that prevents changing the presidential term"

23 August 2017

Egypt-Hungary relations • 12 min read

Sisi and the Hungarian prime minister: Peas in an authoritarian pod

Pesha Magid | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for his first, three-day state visit

2 June 2016

2015 parliamentary elections • 8 min read

A year of Sisi’s highs and lows

Passant Rabie | We have seen the many faces of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi throughout the year, from absolute glee

30 December 2015

Long Live Egypt fund • 8 min read

An emotional rollercoaster with Sisi

Dalia Rabie | President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is no stranger to flattery. The lead up to his election was characterized

9 June 2015

Barack Obama • 11 min read

Q&A with military expert Robert Springborg on US aid to Egypt

Isabel Esterman | In a Tuesday phone call, US President Obama informed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that the

1 April 2015

Opinion

Sameh Naguib

Tactics of a risk-taking regime

The current regime is taking short-term risks, but will they backfire?

2 February 2017

Mohamed Naeem

Mother of the World, against the world and outside of it

I have long known that the contemporary Egypt in which I was raised could easily produce a figure like

9 June 2016

Amy Austin Holmes

Sisi’s US Army War College thesis: 10 years later

Ten years ago, Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi was a foreign student at the US Army War College.

15 March 2016

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News

2018 presidential elections • 5 min read

464 MPs endorse Sisi for presidency

10 January 2018

2018 presidential elections • 2 min read

Timeline for 2018 presidential elections to be announced on Monday

2 January 2018

Sisi presidency • 4 min read

Baseera poll: 14% decline in Sisi’s popularity due to price increases

22 October 2016

Ahmed Moussa • 5 min read

TV host Ahmed Moussa backpedals after Sisi poll gone bad on Twitter

26 August 2016

public opinion polls • 3 min read

Baseera poll shows decline in Sisi voter base

15 August 2016

international media • 5 min read

Foreign Ministry slams Economist magazine for article criticizing Sisi’s policies

9 August 2016

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Sisi presidency

Stop bothering Sisi

Andeel | Sisi: "What corruption kid? Go fight with some Christians or take it out on your wife or something... Off you go!"

4 September 2016

Sisi approval rating

Pretty awesome reports

Andeel | Assistant: "Reports are saying that your popularity keeps going up, sir..." Sisi: "No way!" Assistant: "Cross my heart my heart and hope to die."

17 February 2016

January 25 revolution

Expensive meat

Andeel | Assistant: "So do you remember, sir, during — may God never bring back those days — January 25, when people said social justice? It seems like for some reason they are still, apparently, rather concerned with that topic, I guess ... sir."Sisi: "Hmmmm... So it's not the Brotherhood?"

26 August 2015