From Poultry Empires to Propaganda Tours: Militarization Creeps into Every Corner
Egypt Security Sector Report
In this week’s issue: A new handbook on authoritarianism lands as Berlin debates its own relationship to Israel. The military moonlights as a poultry empire, the Navy hosts propaganda tours for teenagers, state moralist crackdowns staged to police gender, and prisons keep swallowing lives with bureaucratic indifference. Even the Suez rebound turns out to be a mirage once you look past the revenue headline.
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World
A new open-access book is coming out in June 2026. I have a chapter on “Egypt’s Repressive Apparatus in the Age of Counterrevolution.”
How Israel Became Germany’s ‘Reason’ for Being
I reviewed Verso’s latest book, Hyper-Zionism: Germany, the Nazi Past and Israel.
Egypt’s New Pharaoh
A documentary on Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s rule.
Air Force Expands Mission: From Rafales to Omelettes
