Right from its beginnings in 1928, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was inspired by fascism. Even today, its animating ideas, guiding principles, policy positions, and organizational structure are fascist in some way or form.
Since coming to power after the coup against the Mursi government, General Al-Sisi has sought to re-establish the foreign policy lines drawn in pre-revolutionary Egypt.
Perfect Strangers, Netflix’s first Arab production, caused controversy because of a gay character, but ranked the movie among the topmost seen in Egypt and the Middle East.
The revocation of Egypt’s state of emergency was deemed a sign that human rights abuses were easing when, in fact, the exact opposite is occurring.
In this episode of the “Arab Digest Podcast,” Ali Bakir looks at the relationship between Turkey and Egypt.
