The US president Donald Trump calls the Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi “my favourite dictator.”
The day Trump was inaugurated I wrote 2 columns connecting those two patriarchal authoritarians.
This one looking at the women who vote for them google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
The day Trump was inaugurated I wrote 2 columns connecting those two patriarchal authoritarians.
This one looking at the women who vote for them google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
I wrote this one which I headlined American Sisi after I watched Trump’s inauguration along with friends in #Egypt, one of whom said as we watched “He sounds just like one of our despots.” nytimes.com/interactive/pr… 
I was still living in #Egypt at the time,l I wrote those columns, and the Sisi regime “punished” me through a pro-regime paper which put my picture on its front page, called me a “sex activist” (translation: whore), and devoted an entire page to me written by the editor-in-chief
Trump has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women.
Sisi was head of military intelligence when the military sexually assaulted female revolutionaries via “virginity tests.”
When men like that rule, they give a green light that women’s bodies are fair game.
Sisi was head of military intelligence when the military sexually assaulted female revolutionaries via “virginity tests.”
When men like that rule, they give a green light that women’s bodies are fair game.
