ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi’s “Rehabilitation of Anwar al-Sadat”

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Author(s): Mira Tzoreff Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/abd-al-fattah-al-sisis-rehabilitation-anwar-al-sadat In his 1882 lecture titled “What is a nation?,” the French philosopher Ernest Renan claimed that “the essence of a nation is that all of its members have a great deal in common and also that that they have...

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From Great Expectations to Bitter Disappointment: Egypt’s Youth, After Three Years of al-Sisi’s Presidency

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Mira Tzoreff Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/great-expectations-bitter-disappointment-egypt%E2%80%99s-youth-after-three-years-al-sisis-presidency Five years have passed since hundreds of thousands of youth first flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square with the unequivocal and uncompromising demand: “Irhal!” (Get...

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Tel Aviv Notes: The “Sisi-Meter” is Ticking: ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi and the Challenges Facing Egypt

Source: The Moshe Dayan Center For Middle Eastern And African Studies Author(s): Mira Tzoreff Original Link: https://dayan.org/content/tel-aviv-notes-%E2%80%9Csisi-meter%E2%80%9D-ticking-%CA%BFabd-al-fattah-al-sisi-and-challenges-facing-egypt In ʿAbd al-Fattah al-Sisi’s first television interview during the 2014 presidential campaign, he promised Egyptian citizens that they would begin feeling...

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