Thread by @monaeltahawy

Today marks the day in 2011 when longtime #Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down after 18-day #Jan25 revolution. Two of the revolution’s goals were an end to police brutality & an end to the military-backed regime. Neither of those goals have been achieved, yet.

#Feb11, 2011: #Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak was overthrown after 18day #Jan25 revolution. Unless we overthrow the dictator not just in presidential palace but the one also on the street corner and in the home, our revolution remains incomplete

- I reject military rule & Islamist rule
- I opposed Mubarak & Morsi; I most certainly oppose Sisi
- I refuse to choose btwn one group of fascist men & another group of fascist men
- As long as our revolution remains one group of men vs another group of men,it’s incomplete
#Egypt

I wrote this in 2017 after Mubarak was acquitted in a retrial for the killing of some 900 people in the 11 days of #Jan25. Sisi and other senior security personnel have yet to be held accountable for killing almost 1000 in Aug 2013. google.com/amp/s/www.nyti…

Five US administrations, Democratic and Republican, supported the Mubarak regime.

Trump calls Sisi “my favourite dictator.”

Fascism knows fascism.

#Egypt #Feb11

As a journalist for over a decade in #Egypt - mostly for Reuters news agency - I covered Mubarak. He knew who I was and his security people once confiscated my press card because I refused to stand when he entered a restaurant. He used to call me the “troublemaker from Reuters.”

#Egyptian State Security called me in for questioning on the day this 2005 oped was published. Worse was to come from his regime a few years later. nytimes.com/2005/12/22/opi…