529 Deaths in One Sentence. Welcome to al-Sisi Egypt
After months of detention without trial, Egypt’s coup-planted courts have sentenced to death 529 supporters of the first elected president in Egyptian history. The two day long trial for an alleged attack on a police station did not allow the defendants’ lawyers into the proceedings but nonetheless issued the verdict of death. The ludicrous proceeding can hardly be referred to using formal terms. It stemmed from the illegitimacy of the coup even if it had enacted full justice and applied a correct legal arrangement. But on top of this, the proceeding was an ultimate fallacy, rather than a ‘court’, it…
The Egyptian Media’s Dirty Game
What is the common perception of the media and what is its main goal? Every media outlet, whether the newspapers, news channels, entertainment such as TV series, movies or radio has the same goal. It is the same goal that every business pursues, the bottom line, the controller: the Profit. Typically, the easiest route to a profit for the media is to provide content that its target audience can relate to. In a very crude example, the Sun newspaper in the UK will, on a daily basis, print a picture of a topless woman. It knows very well that its…
