Cairo in Exileالقاهرة/مصر في المنفى

Preview of Ahmed Naji's episode to be published June 28th.  عرض مختصر لحوارنا مع الكاتب أحمد ناجى

Media personality and TV anchor at al Sharq channel, Doaa Hassan is my guest in this episode. She currently lives in Turkey with her husband, renowned opposition leader Ayman Nour. This episode is in Arabic. . الإعلامية دعاء حسن المذيعة بقناة الشرق بتركيا هى ضيفتى فى هذه الحلقة من مصر فى المنفى وتعيش دعاء فى تركيا مع زوجها المعارض والرئيس السابق لحزب الغد ايمن نور هذه الحلقة باللغة العربية

Sherif Mansour is the coordinator of MENA and North Africa region for the Committee to Protect Journalists. He currently lives in the US. This episode is in Arabic.  In this episode, Mansour discussed how he left Egypt, and how members of his family have been arrested in Egypt, as well as his .  This episode contains explicit language that some might find offensive.  شريف منصور...

This is the second part of the interview with Abdel Rahman ElGendy, former Egyptian prisoner of conscience who spent more than six years behind bars from Oct 2013 until his release in Jan 2020. He was arrested at 17, and left prison at 24. While in prison, ElGendy earned an engineering degree from Ain Shams University. In this episode, ElGendy discusses not only his own story, but that of his pris...

Essam Mostafa is a writer, political analyst and lecturer, as well as a physician. He is the former chair of internal medicine at Huntington Beach Hospital, CA. This episode is in Arabic.  الدكتور عصام مصطفى هو كاتب ومحلل سياسى ومحاضر وطبيب, وهو رئيس سابق لقسم الباطنة وطب الأسرة بمستشفى هانتينجتون بيتش بكاليفورنيا وتخرج من كلية طب القصر العينى وعمل معيدا فى جامعة القاهرة. وهو ايضا صاحب م...

Dr. Hamzawy is a  political scientist who taught in Cairo, Egypt and Berlin, Germany and currently teaches political science at Stanford University in California . He is a former member of the Egyptian parliament of 2012. Dr. Hamzawy was a founding member of the Egyptian  National Democratic Party, and split from it and founded the Freedom Egypt Party. He is also author of many book...

Dr. Amr Hamzawy is a  political scientist who taught in Cairo, Egypt and Berlin, Germany and currently teaches political science at Stanford University in California . In 2011, he went back to Cairo and taught at the AUC. Dr. Hamzawy was a member of the Egyptian parliament in 2012 and a member of the National Council for Human Rights. He was the founding member of the Egyptian  National...

Abdelrahman ElGendy is a former political prisoner in Egypt who spent more than six years behind bars, from October 6, 2013 until his release on January 13, 2020. He was arrested at 17, and left prison at 24. While in prison, he earned an engineering degree from Ain Shams University. [The episode is in English]

The Lazour Brothers, writers, song-writers, musicians and all-around creative artists, are my guests in this episode of Cairo in Exile. They are better known for their play We live in Cairo , which premiered at the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, in 2019. In this episode, the brothers, Daniel and Patrick Lazour, speak of their upcoming album Flap my Wings, which will be released on the...

Nabil Abdel Fattah is the former director of Al-Ahram Center for Social and Historical Studies. He was awarded the Religious Freedom Award by Freedom House. Abdel Fattah is a former lawyer who obtained his masters degree in political studies from the Sorbonne University in Paris. He has multiple books and publications on topics such as armed and radical Islamist groups, status of religious minorit...

. آية حجازي مصرية وتحمل الجنسية الأمريكية. وقد حصلت على بكالوريوس تحليل وحل النزاعات من جامعة جورج ماسون الأمريكية، وليسانس حقوق من جامعة القاهرة تم القبض عليها فى مصر عام 2014 ثم تم الإفراج عنها بعد فترة ثلاث سنوات من الحبس الإحتياطى. وهىتعيش الآن بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية Together with her husband Aya Hijazi founded the Belady Foundation, an NGO that supports street children and currently supp...

Mohamed Soltan is an an Egyptian/American human rights activist, who was a political prisoner in Egypt from August 2013 to May 2015. Soltan was sentenced to life in prison after protesting Sisi’s takeover of power. He currently lives in the United States. This episode is in Arabic. محمد سلطان هو ناشط حقوقى مصرى امريكى وقد كان سجينا سياسيا فى مصر من اغسطس 2013 وحتى مايو 2015. و حكم عليه بالسجن مدى...

Interview with award-winning graphic artist Ganzeer, known both in Egypt and internationally for his street art, following the 2011 Revolution. His artwork deals with themes such as civic responsibility and social justice. He has been critical of the subsequent ruling regimes since 2011 until today and currently lives in self-exile in the US. With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s work ha...

ضيف الحلقة هو الفنان جنزير و هو اسم فني يستعمله هذا الفنان المصري الذي اكتسب شهرة شعبية في مصر وفي العالم إثر ثورة 25 يناير  وبخاصة لرسوماته الجرافيتى فى شوارع مصر تتناول أعماله قضايا تمس المسؤولية المدنية والعدالة الإجتماعية، وهي تنتقد النظم السياسية وقد حصل على العديد من الجوائز الدولية واعماله موجودة فى اهم المعارض فى العالم منها متحف بروكلين بنيو يورك وغيرها. من بين اعماله اعمال جرافيتى و...

Mohamed Ali is an Egyptian actor and contractor who left Egypt in 2018. He was the producer and actor of several Egyptian films and shows, and worked as a contractor for the Egyptian army, building mansions and villas for and in the military's name. He fled Egypt to Spain and issued a series of public videos, condemning the Egyptian regime and accusing them of corruption. The episode is in Arabic....

Dr. Essam Heggy is an Egyptian space scientist working at NASA, and a professor at both the Paris-Sorbonne University and the University of Southern California (USC). He briefly served as the Egyptian president's advisor for scientific affairs from 2013 until his resignation in 2014. He is currently living in self-exile in California. This interview is in Arabic, and is Part I of 2.  حوا...

Hisham Kassem is the founding president and publisher of the formerly privately-owned Al Masry Al Youm newspaper, and was the founder of Cairo Times newspaper, published out of Cyprus. He is a human rights defender and democracy activist, and was the head of the Egyptian Human Rights Organization in Cairo for approximately 10 years. Kassem was also the vice president of Al Ghad Party and is the re...

Interview with Sherif Osman, former Air Force Communications Officer at Almaza Airport Base in Cairo, Egypt. Osman is currently in self-exile in the United States. He has formed an initiative with a group of others including another former state security officer, that aims at creating change in Egypt. The announcement for the initiative may be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVOZf4ir-j...

Interview with Dr. Taqadum Al Khatib,  Egyptian lecturer at the Free university of Berlin. He studied and completed his PhD at both Princeton University and the Free university. He was also the former coordinator of the political communications dossier with the Egyptian National Association for Change from 2011 until 2013. He is now living in Berlin, Germany. This episode is in English. 

Interview with human rights defender and founder of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights,  Bahey Eddin Hassan from his self-exile in France. 

Amr Waked is an award-winning  Egyptian film, television, and stage actor. He is best known to international audiences and in Hollywood for his role in the 2005 film Syriana. He also plays the role of Ramy’s father in the series Ramy which airs on Hulu. As a regime critic, he was subjected to several defamation campaigns. He is currently residing in self-exile in Spain. 

This episode is an interview in Arabic with human rights lawyer and defender, Tarek Hussein. Hussein discusses his work, activism and imprisonment, before he became yet another exiled Egyptian. He discusses the situation in Egypt, prisons, and the way to the future.  We will post a transcript shortly after. 

Award winning actor, producer and Egyptian dissident Kal Abol Naga is my guest on this first episode of our podcast.  Naga discusses why and how he left Egypt, the defamation and smear campaigns orchestrated against him by the regime, the status of gender, as well as where he sees Egypt going in the future.  Naga is well known for his social and human rights advocacy and has been one of...