Maged Mandour
@magedmandour.bsky.social
An Egyptian who writes about Egypt , among other things. Author Egypt under El-Sisi, now available. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/egypt-under-elsisi-9780755649136/
Egyptian President El-Sisi's proposed new debt instrument will further shift economic burdens "onto Egypt's most vulnerable and away from wealthy regime insiders ... worsening corruption at the expense of working-class citizens." Analysis from @magedmandour.bsky.social: dawnmena.org/sisis-latest...
Egypt's new bond scheme aims to ease the debt burden on the Egyptian state. Instead, it will deepen corruption, allowing regime insiders and elites to rob the state at the expense of the Egyptian working class, writes @magedmandour.bsky.social.
Sisi’s Latest Debt Fix Protects Egypt’s Elite and Punishes the Working Class - DAWN
On Aug. 10, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi approved a proposal to issue a new debt instrument dubbed the “Taxation Sukuk,” a purchasable form of government debt similar to a bond. The proposa...
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After a bit of a hiatus working of the new book, I am back with a piece looking at another one of the regime`s desperate attempts to solve the debt crisis through another self defeating policy that will hurt the poor more than anyone else. dawnmena.org/sisis-latest...
Sisi’s Latest Debt Fix Protects Egypt’s Elite and Punishes the Working Class - DAWN
On Aug. 10, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi approved a proposal to issue a new debt instrument dubbed the “Taxation Sukuk,” a purchasable form of government debt similar to a bond. The proposal’s goal is to ease the burden of Egypt’s debt payments on its budget and, in turn, the broader economy. This new debt instrument, however, will erode the state’s already weak fiscal basis, further shifting the burden onto Egypt’s most vulnerable and away from wealthy regime insiders. The results will be clear: worsening corruption at the expense of working-class citizens.
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Egypt's new bond scheme aims to ease the debt burden on the Egyptian state. Instead, it will deepen corruption, allowing regime insiders to rob the state at the expense of the Egyptian working class, writes @magedmandour.bsky.social in @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social's journal. dawnmena.org/sisis-latest...
Sisi’s Latest Debt Fix Protects Egypt’s Elite and Punishes the Working Class - DAWN
On Aug. 10, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi approved a proposal to issue a new debt instrument dubbed the “Taxation Sukuk,” a purchasable form of government debt similar to a bond. The proposa...
dawnmena.org
Great cover. Great writer. Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!
Maged Mandour@magedmandour.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe have a cover! Very happy that the work of the very talented Andeel will feature again on the cover of my new book. Sometimes lighting does strike twice. Publication date 2027. Forthcoming from @ibtauris.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
We have a cover! Very happy that the work of the very talented Andeel will feature again on the cover of my new book. Sometimes lighting does strike twice. Publication date 2027. Forthcoming from @ibtauris.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
back on the Arab Digest podcast talking about Sisi, the UAE, and the impossible options that the regime is facing @billlaw49.bsky.social m.soundcloud.com/arabdigest/t...
The encirclement of Sisi
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Very grateful that " Egypt Under El-Sisi" was included in Marc Lynch list of best reads about Egypt Under Sisi. @abuaardvark.bsky.social abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/egypts-dozen...
Egypt's dozen uselessly brutal years
Plus, a new MENA Academy roundup Twelve years ago today, huge crowds took to the streets in Egypt demanding that President Mohammed el-Morsi step down from office. The Tamarod June 30 protests were n...
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The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby. They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people. In your name.
New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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I'm happy to announce my book "Counterrevolution in Egypt: Sisi's New Republic" is now available for pre-order!
Counterrevolution in Egypt
The agents of coercion in Egypt—its military, police, and intelligence services—have been locked in a perennial struggle for power since their inception. Each institution has vied for dominance, shapi...
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The Grand Egyptian Museum's opening in Egypt, paired with pro-regime propaganda, "serves to justify its foreign and domestic policies," writes @magedmandour.bsky.social. That includes sidelining President El-Sisi's most pressing nuisance: the people.
Egypt: A New Museum Cannot Legitimize a Nation Without a People
In essence, the regime has succeeded in manufacturing an imagined past that not only justifies its policies but effectively redefines what Egyptian history, the nation, the state and the military mean...
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With the Grand Egyptian Museum's opening, Cairo continues to redefine the past to both "justify its policies [and] effectively redefine what Egyptian history, the nation, the state and the military mean today," writes @magedmandour.bsky.social.
Egypt: A New Museum Cannot Legitimize a Nation Without a People
In essence, the regime has succeeded in manufacturing an imagined past that not only justifies its policies but effectively redefines what Egyptian history, the nation, the state and the military mean...
dawnmena.org
My latest for @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social dawnmena.org/egypt-a-new-...
Egypt: A New Museum Cannot Legitimize a Nation Without a People
In essence, the regime has succeeded in manufacturing an imagined past that not only justifies its policies but effectively redefines what Egyptian history, the nation, the state and the military mean...
dawnmena.org
My latest on Sisi's Gaza predicament. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/sisi...
Sisi calls Israel an ‘enemy’ but will Egypt take real action over Gaza genocide?
Despite hostile rhetoric for the first time in decades, Cairo's reliance on Israeli gas and external capital flows make it too vulnerable to respond to Israeli expansionism
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"Cairo’s decision does not mean that Alaa will be released, nor does it shift Sisi`s reliance on repression as a tool for regime maintenance," writes @magedmandour.bsky.social of Egypt's removal of Alaa Abdel Fatah from its terrorism list, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.
Why Alaa Abdel Fatah’s Terror Revocation Means Little Amid Egypt’s Brutal Repression
In a surprising July 21 decision, the Badr Criminal Court in Cairo ordered the removal of arbitrarily detained human rights and democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fatah’s terror designation, marking a rare...
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My latest on Sisi's endemic repression dawnmena.org/why-alaa-abd...
Why Alaa Abdel Fatah’s Terror Revocation Means Little Amid Egypt’s Brutal Repression
In a surprising July 21 decision, the Badr Criminal Court in Cairo ordered the removal of arbitrarily detained human rights and democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fatah’s terror designation, marking a rare...
dawnmena.org
Happy to announce that I will be working on a book titled "Militarized Capitalism Under El-Sisi: Blood and Concrete". Time now for countless episodes of imposter syndrome, self flagellation, and writer's block.
"Giulio`s death made clear that returning to Cairo carried the terrifying risk of prison, a horrendous death or both... I chose not to return and have not done so to this day," writes @magedmandour.bsky.social, reviewing in DAWN's Democracy in Exile his now-decade of exile from Egypt
A Decade in Exile: Watching Egypt Slip Further Into Repression and Ruin
It was the summer of 2013, the beginning of one of the bloodiest periods in modern Egyptian history. Mobilization for mass protest against Egypt`s first democratically elected Islamist President Moham...
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"Autocracy and injustice thrive and spread when leaders fail to halt their advance or hold autocrats accountable." @magedmandour.bsky.social shares some major moments from what is now a decade of exile from Egypt, writing in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.
A Decade in Exile: Watching Egypt Slip Further Into Repression and Ruin
It was the summer of 2013, the beginning of one of the bloodiest periods in modern Egyptian history. Mobilization for mass protest against Egypt`s first democratically elected Islamist President Moham...
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A personal piece about exile dawnmena.org/a-decade-in-...
A Decade in Exile: Watching Egypt Slip Further Into Repression and Ruin
It was the summer of 2013, the beginning of one of the bloodiest periods in modern Egyptian history. Mobilization for mass protest against Egypt`s first democratically elected Islamist President Moham...
dawnmena.org
"No one is safe—from Egypt to Gaza—because the world has proven unwilling to stop the repression, torture and murder of innocent life." @magedmandour.bsky.social summarizes a decade of exile following the 2013 post-revolutionary coup in Egypt, in DAWN's Democracy in Exile.
A Decade in Exile: Watching Egypt Slip Further Into Repression and Ruin
It was the summer of 2013, the beginning of one of the bloodiest periods in modern Egyptian history. Mobilization for mass protest against Egypt`s first democratically elected Islamist President Moham...
dawnmena.org
Would Trump aid cuts kill #Egypt - or make Sisi stronger? Gulf support could help Cairo weather the storm, & by defending Palestinian rights, the Sisi regime stands to gain popular legitimacy, writes MEDC's DMI Advisory Group member @magedmandour.bsky.social. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/woul...
Would Trump aid cuts kill Egypt - or make Sisi stronger?
Gulf support could help Cairo weather the storm, and by defending Palestinian rights, the Sisi regime stands to gain popular legitimacy
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My latest for the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social on the possible impact of American aid cut on Sisi and the stability of the regime. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/woul...
Would Trump aid cuts kill Egypt - or make Sisi stronger?
Gulf support could help Cairo weather the storm, and by defending Palestinian rights, the Sisi regime stands to gain popular legitimacy
middleeasteye.net
Thank you both your thoughtful engagement with the book!
Check out my latest for the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social on the rise of a new political party in Egypt, it's connection to a state sanctioned militia and what this means for the country. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/egyp...
How Egypt's new political party will deepen state repression
The creation of the National Front could see regional militiamen gaining unprecedented access to power in the country
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Check out my latest for the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social on the rise of a new political party in Egypt, it's connection to a state sanctioned militia and what this means for the country. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/egyp...
How Egypt's new political party will deepen state repression
The creation of the National Front could see regional militiamen gaining unprecedented access to power in the country
middleeasteye.net
An often neglected aspect of this is the level of popular participation in mass state repression. How can a regime convince so many of its citizens to support this mass slaughter?
Quentin Sommerville@sommervilletv.bsky.social · 2y ago“We really haven't seen anything quite like this since the Nazis," said Rapp, who led prosecutions at the Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes tribunals” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
‘The most obvious lesson is the mistake of heavily relying on external support from foreign sponsors, and the belief such support is endless and that these regimes are too important or "too big to fail".’
Maged Mandour@magedmandour.bsky.social · 2y agoCheck out my latest for the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social on the lessons drawn from the fall of Assad www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/assa...
Check out my latest for the @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social on the lessons drawn from the fall of Assad www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/assa...
Why Assad's downfall should make the region's other autocrats nervous
Assad's hubris saw him opt for brutality over building consensus within Syria and take for granted the support of his foreign patrons. Neighbouring despots should take note
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