Tag: counterrevolution

Support Khaled Abol Naga

Posted on By 3arabawy

One of Egypt’s leading actors, Khaled Abol Naga, is currently facing a smearing campaign from the regime propagandists in state and private TV, after he called on President Sisi to leave and lashed out against his police state.

One of the regime cronies, Lawyer Samir Sabry, has even filed a lawsuit asking the authorities to strip Abol Naga off his Egyptian nationality and prosecute him on charges of “high treason.”

This is part of the McCarthyist atmosphere Egypt is living in today, with continuous witch-hunt against anyone and anything related to the #Jan25 Revolution.

Abol Naga is not only a great artist, but also has always sided with just political causes, before and after the revolution. For example, in the video below, Abol Naga, extends his solidarity to the 2 May 2010 labor protest for a national minimum wage.

My solidarity goes to Abol Naga.

Sisi’s Dirty War: Propaganda, lies and no accountability

Posted on By 3arabawy

Lest we forget, the regime’s mouthpiece the daily Al-Ahram newspaper’s front page headline announced “Egypt to be declared terrorism-free in days,” on 23 September 2013, and estimated “may be a week”.

جريدة الأهرام

But the insurgency in Sinai, which is already a decade long at least, starting with the 2004 Taba bombings, has only escalated during Sisi’s rule and will continue to escalate as his army pursues the Dirty War strategies and tactics by the book.

Supported by the US and Israel, the Egyptian army is completely embroiled now in the counterinsurgency operations, and is leading the “fight against terrorism”, even when Sisi initially admitted in a meeting with senior commanders sometime in 2013 before the coup, that it was not “the army’s job to fight terrorism. The army is a killing machine… [Fighting terrorism] is the job of the ministry of interior.”

And after more than a year of the start of the counterinsurgency, it is clear the security situation is going down the drains, with no accountability.