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François Burgat

Emeritus research director, (CNRS-Iremam, Aix-en-Provence), initiator of the ERC project ‟When authoritarianism fails in the Arab world”, 2013-2017.

Aboul Fotouh in Jail, Egypt in Chains Bjorn Olav Utvik, François Burgat · July 2018 In 2013, a coup brought the army to power in Egypt. Five years later, all the benefits from the January 2011 revolution are liquidated and no dissenting votes are allowed. Those who like Abdel Moneim Aboul Foutouh embodied the hopes of the Tahrir movement are targeted first and foremost.
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