
Television presenter Tamer Amin has sparked a storm of anger on social media with a racist story. "Sa'idi people [Egyptians from Upper Egypt] and farmers [peasants]," he said, "have a lot of children so they can work as servants." Amin is close to the regime in Egypt and tries to win favour at the expense of ordinary people, but this time it has backfired. I am also an Egyptian citizen, born in the 1980s, and am convinced that to be an Egyptian and live in Egypt under this military rule is an affliction that I ask God to relieve us from. To be an Egyptian under the rule of Sisi and be a racist towards your own people, however, puts […]
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