When Tony Blair was photographed recently with the new Egyptian president Mr Sisi, many of us in the press gallery wondered if we were witnessing a new dawn of Arabic leaders embracing bold new media skills. You might have pondered in recent days how it is that the whole world seems to accept Israel’s bombardment […]
The Cairo Institute for Human Rights (CIHRS) joined a long list of rights watchdogs that alert to the growing repression of the Algerian regime against peaceful dissidents abroad after a brutal crackdown on criticism at home. In a report dubbed “The Noose is Tightening Around Us: Algeria’s Use of Transnational Repression to Crackdown on Dissent”, […]
Morocco has published two new decrees in the Official Gazette formally establishing the legal framework for the financing of the September 23, 2026 legislative elections, a set of regulations that, for the first time, explicitly address the use of artificial intelligence, social media, and digital platforms in electoral campaigns and place them under the authority […]
