Hesham Sallam

Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law and author of Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2022)

Understanding the Enigma of the Egyptian Left Hesham Sallam · November 2023 Although the Egyptian street has always seemed to favor the emergence of left-wing power, this political current has been losing the battle to the Islamists and to the government for several decades now. This is due to a lack of autonomy fostered by the regimes of presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser (…)