Egypt in crisis?

2 July 2015

Security personnel investigate the site of a bombing that killed Egypt’s top prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, in Cairo, Egypt, June 29, 2015. The car bomb killed Barakat, in the first assassination of a top official in the country in a quarter century, marking an apparent escalation by Islamic militants in their campaign of revenge attacks for a 2-year-old crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. A car laden with large amount of explosives was detonated by a remote control as Barakat’s car and his entourage passed. (AP Photo/Eman Helal)

It's been two years since the Egyptian military ousted democratically-elected president Mohammed Morsi, replacing him with Army Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.

Al-Sisi has promised stability but his time as president has been anything but peaceful. Violence still rages throughout parts of the country, and reporters are being thrown in jail simply for doing their job.

On this edition of Global Journalist, we look at how the country has arrived at this point, and where it's going in the future.

Our guests this week:

Stephen Zunes, a professor of politics and the coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco
Jonathan Moremi, a journalist who’s covered the country for more than 35 years for outlets including the Daily News of Egypt
Adel Iskander, a professor of communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver
Emir Nader, a political reporter for the Daily News Egypt

Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism.

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