![](https://fournews-assets-prod-s3-ew1-nmprod.s3.amazonaws.com/media/2023/06/lindesy-hilsum-500-500.jpg)
‘Down with military rule!’ – Sisi and the realpolitik of today’s Egypt
What do you do when the only person standing up to your worst enemy is a thug and a bully? Not a playground problem but the realpolitik of the Middle East today.
261 items found
Lindsey Hilsum blogs: what a strange reversal that those who support the government have to whisper in corners while the rebels who would have been arrested two weeks ago are out there shouting in public “remove Mubarak, replace him with a sheep”.
President Mubarak’s 30 year rule in Egypt could be coming to an end – troops have removed the guns from their tanks, reports Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum.
Channel 4 News correspondents report on a historic day across Egypt as around a million people fill the streets, urging President Mubarak to stand down. He reportedly prepares to address his country.
Twenty years on and the jokes about President Mubarak seem to have worn very thin – Egyptians are at last saying it all. Channel 4 news Foreign Editor Ben De Pear blogs about his memories of Cairo.
A report from Cairo on the anti-government protests in Egypt which are challenging the Mubarak regime.
The British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced for a post he made on Facebook, and has spent most of the last decade in prison.
The story of Egypt – of hope and promise giving way to oppression and fear – was brought into sharp focus with the death of one prominent LGBT activist.
Dr Hisham Hellyer, who is from the Royal United Services Institute and author of A Revolution Undone, about Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, discusses the mosque killings.
Pro and anti-Sisi demonstrators clash as David Cameron welcomes the controversial leader, who is accused of mass human rights abuses.
At least 70 people die in a coordinated attack by Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. Lasting several hours, the assault targets several military checkpoints.
Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, is sentenced to death along with 105 other members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mohamed Morsi, who was toppled from the Egyptian presidency in 2013, is sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole for the killing of protesters in December 2012.
What do you do when the only person standing up to your worst enemy is a thug and a bully? Not a playground problem but the realpolitik of the Middle East today.
Armed Shia militants belonging to Yemen’s Houthi movement have seized Yemeni President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s chief of staff in the capital city Sanaa.
The question is no longer what Tony Blair did, or what President Obama should do, but what are we all going to do?