Marwa Fikry Abdel Samei is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She completed a PhD at Northeastern University on mass media and public diplomacy in the contemporary Arab world. Recent publications focus on rise of Islamists after the Arab Spring.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEl Sisi's tainted legitimacyElections have exposed the fragility of Sisi’s rule and sent up warning signs of the dangerous path that will be...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaTaming Tahrir (Part 2): re-appropriating Al-Midan and co-opting memoryBy replacing the cement block with gates, the regime is not only curtailing the infrastructure of protest and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe (anti-) protest law: no more public space in Egypt?
The battle for dominance over public space in Egypt will continue, determining the future relationship between state...
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Published in: HomeTaming Tahrir (Part One)Tahrir has witnessed five milestones that have eventually resulted in a mixed reality which paves the way for the...