Egypt elections: Is Hamdeen Sabbahy a challenger for Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s presidency – or his stooge?
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/egypt-elections-is-hamdeen-sabbahy-a-challenger-for-abdel-fattah-alsi
After graduation he founded a series of political parties. He says that his generation of activists developed a “street Nasserism” which recognised faults in Nasser’s state, and incorporated support for democracy and human rights. Mr Nasser’s successors did not share those views and, for his activism, Mr Sabbahy was arrested 17 times, imprisoned eight and tortured once.
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“If it hadn’t been for prison, I would not have been able to read the terrible translation of Edward Said’s Orientalism that I had with me,” he says.