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Published in: Home: NewsHundreds of scientists urge COP27 PR agency to drop fossil fuel clients
US firm Hill+Knowlton is helping Egypt organise this week’s UN climate conference – while representing oil giants
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Published in: Home: NewsPR firm accused of greenwashing big oil is helping organise COP27
The US agency has a “shameful track record of spreading disinformation” but has been hired by the Egyptian government
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Published in: Podcasts: FeatureI Am Not Your Refugee: Media and Migration
A look at migration and the media with journalists Osama Gaweesh, Nasruddin Nizami and Mohammad Subat
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionGiulio Regeni’s murder speaks the truth about Egypt – and Europe too
France and Italy promote democracy and human rights while selling more and more arms to Egypt, where the student was...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEgypt’s desertification is ruining fields, cutting crops and displacing farmers
Agriculture accounts for 28% of all jobs in Egypt. With temperatures predicted to rise by 2-3% by 2050, many...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEgyptian researchers must choose between forced exile and arrest
The Sisi regime’s authoritarian clamp-down on Egyptian academic freedom has left researchers with some stark choices
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEgypt will finally appoint women judges. But is the move really progress?
If the plans go ahead in the expected form, they will anger both women’s rights activists and female law school graduates
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: ReviewHow Egyptian TV series ‘The Choice’ is stirring controversy about the Rab’a massacre
The show appears to adopt the regime’s narrative as fact, despite it being disputed by human rights organisations
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionCan worsening economies and increasing repression herald a new Arab Spring?
North Africa today is reminiscent of the period leading up to the 2011 uprisings. Tensions are further aggravated by...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureCan social media help in the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt?
Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisThe EU and UK are releasing the money of deposed dictators
Why is the EU lifting sanctions on politicians accused of corruption in Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, when so little...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionWhy do churches have mixed attitudes towards the Arab Spring?
Christian leaders in Egypt and Syria opposed the 2011 uprising but now their counterparts in Iraq and Lebanon back...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaUnholy alliance: the global crusade against reproductive justice
As the far Right unites, it is time that we also stand together and strengthen our ties
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: Feature‘Always an outsider’: The Egyptians in exile both abroad and at home
The scars of suspicion and alienation on those affected can last a lifetime
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureEgyptian student of gender and religion jailed for terrorism on visit home
Crackdown on freedoms is intensifying with the arrest of Ahmed Samir Santawy – the latest student to be locked up on...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow the West supports Egypt’s military dictatorship
While human rights groups condemn President al-Sisi’s regime, he receives European arms deals, American aid, and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFrom ‘Tickling Giants’ to making kids laugh: an interview with Bassem Youssef
The Egyptian comedian’s first book for young people tackles bullying, racism and discrimination among immigrant children.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDancing with the devil: how the EU is complicit in Egypt’s brutal regime
Just weeks after staff from an Egyptian human rights group were arrested on terror charges, Macron rolled out the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWill Europe stop covering up the crimes of the Egyptian regime?
The latest wave of arrests of EIPR human rights activists in Egypt exposes Europe’s complicity with the regime.
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Published in: Global ExtremesHow can religiously inspired ideas explain violent extremism in Egypt?
What role do religiously inspired ideas play in shaping the current wave of violent extremism in Egypt?