Uncategorized In first trial session after over 2 years in prison, Alaa Abd El Fattah tells court his detention is illegal 19 Oct 202119 Oct 2021 After a remand detention that exceeded the legal limit of two years, Alaa Abd El Fattah, the son the Egyptian mathematician Laila Soueif, learned for the first time that he…
Uncategorized Alaa Abd El Fatah’s life is in danger. He says he has reached a breaking point! 14 Sep 202114 Sep 2021 Distress message from Alaa Abdel Fattah, icon of the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and son of the mathematician Laila Soueif. Statement by the family of Alaa Abd El Fattah: Alaa's…
Uncategorized De Moubarak à Sissi, la famille Seif ou la résistance en héritage 29 Jun 202129 Jun 2021 Dans la famille Seif, s’opposer à la dictature est une discipline que l’on pratique de père en fils et de mère en filles. Dix ans après le soulèvement populaire de…
Uncategorized Egypt activist Alaa Abdelfattah calls on Egypt’s judiciary to step down 29 Jun 202129 Jun 2021 Ahdaf Soueif reports: Alaa was brought before a judge today, in Tora, to decide whether his "detention pending trial" would continue. Alaa has been in prison- this time- (Case 1356/2019…
Uncategorized « Si je ne parle pas à voix haute, qui le fera ? » : en Egypte, le combat de Laila Soueif pour les prisonniers politiques 21 Apr 202121 Apr 2021 Interview with Laila Soueif published in Le Monde on April 21, 2021: Mother of two imprisoned activists, the "matriarch" of the clan of political activists refuses to be silent in…
Uncategorized Fitzcarraldo to Publish Alaa Abd El Fattah’s ‘You Have Not Yet Been Defeated’ 30 Mar 2021 ArabLit announces the collection of the Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah’s essays is due out October 20, 2021. Naomi Klein will write the preface. Fitzacarraldo writes Alaa Abd el-Fattah,…
Arbitrary detention Sanaa Seif has been sentenced to 18 months in prison 17 Mar 202117 Mar 2021 Egyptian activist and film editor Sanaa Seif has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, for joining her mother Laila Soueif and her sister Mona Seif to ask for a…
Arbitrary detention… “Committed mathematicians, crossed views”: Debate by Tuna Altınel and Michel Broué 16 Mar 202125 Mar 2021 Tuna Altınel is a mathematician. He has been persecuted for 2 years by the Turkish state which accuses him of state crimes. Michel Broué is a mathematician. Since the 1970s,…
Mathematicians A better world for mathematicians-Un monde meilleur pour les mathématiciens-عالم أفضل لعلماء الرياضيات-Более безопасный мир для математиков 13 Mar 202113 Mar 2021 Français Pусский العربية English A better world for mathematicians A contribution to the International Day of Mathematics (IDM 2021) on Sunday, March 14, 2021, whose theme is Mathematics for a…
Arbitrary detention Abduction of mathematician Manar Adel Abou-El-Naga and her 11-month-old son by Egyptian security apparatus 1 Mar 2021 On March 9, 2019, Manar Adel Abu-El-Naga, a 27-year-old teaching assistant in the mathematics department of Tanta University (Egypt), was arrested at her home in Alexandria with her husband and…
