129, Hossam El Hamalawy on activism and state repression in Egypt 2022

Listen to an interview with Egyptian activist, writer and photographer Hossam El Hamalawy @elhamalawy speaking on the current state of social movements in Egypt. In this exchange, recorded in Berlin, Hossam talks about the ways that state repression in Egypt has been deepened in recent years under the authoritarian government of Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. A key to this conversation is the ways that the complicity of western governments with the state repression in Egypt is a reality, largely contextualized by Hossam as related to the sale of military hardware by major French and German corporations of the military industrial complex which are making profits from selling to the Egyptian state. Music on this interview is by Anthony Sahyoun @asahyoun. Photo taken by Hossam "El-Darb el-Ahmar الدرب الأحمر" The accompanying photo is taken by Hossam who wrote at the time "the front page of the liberal daily Ad-Dustour with news on the solidarity protest held in London against the trial of the Mahalla 49." This is important context to highlighting Hossam's long term involvement with social movements in Egypt, including the organizing of factory workers in Mahalla industrial district who held strikes leading up to the 2011 uprising which created pivotal momentum toward the uprising. You can view this photo here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy/2746692189/ View Hossam's beautiful photo stream here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/elhamalawy Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3m and @cjlo1690am in Tiohti:áke/Montréal, on @ckuwradio 95.9 in Winnipeg and on @cfrc 101.9 fm in Kingston, Ontario. Now also broadcasting on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC. Also Free City Radio is a podcast through both Spotify and Apple Podcasts, please encourage a friend to tune-in !