Trump is terrible but Europe and the Middle East have racism too
Rather than humans becoming enslaved by robots, machines have become the new slave or serf class, with devastating consequences for society and the environment. We desperately need a more humane and sustainable approach to automation.
Read MoreTunisia: Freedom and the pursuit of unhappiness
With greater freedom has come greater unhappiness in Tunisia. Behind this apparent paradox is economic hardship and nostalgia for a past that never was.
Read MorePrisoners of our guilty consciences
The intensifying crackdown on the media and civil society in Egypt leaves Egyptians who are out of the country feeling powerless to help and guilty about the freedoms they enjoy.
Read MoreRefugees trapped inside Fortress Europe
The plight of the 63,000 refugees and migrants still marooned in Greece should give Europeans pause for thought.
Read MoreGiulio Regeni is the tip of Egypt’s police brutality iceberg
Many Egyptians find the allegation that the Italian student Giulio Regeni was killed by Egypt’s notorious security apparatus chillingly plausible. Italy must shed its former enthusiasm for the Sisi regime.
Read MoreEgypt’s false state of security
Handing Egypt’s security services a licence to repress the Muslim Brotherhood will return us to the police state the revolution worked to overthrow.
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Egyptian musician “will not be silenced” about police brutality
Mohammed Jamal, the lead singer of the popular Egyptian indie band Salalem, tells The Chronikler his story about a night of hell in police custody.
Read MoreRevolution@1: Egypt must learn from 1952
Like in 1952, the army is trying to silence opposition with the Muslim Brotherhood’s help. But can the Tahrir mentality stop history from repeating?
Read MoreMake Ramadan torture-free in Egypt
It’s Ramadan, but the Egyptian police continue to practise brutality and torture. This year, they should set a better example.
Read MoreThe police and criminal injustice in Egypt
Egyptian police and a decades-old emergency law stand in the dock of public opinion following a young man’s alleged murder.
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