In the hours and days after her death, I kept returning to that picture of Sarah Hegazy which first surfaced in 2017 after she was arrested: A young woman beaming against the backdrop of Cairo’s polluted skies and bright concert lights. She was raised above the crowds, possibly on someone’s shou..
Tareq Baconi
Tareq Baconi is a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Middle East Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He received his PhD from Kings College London and his MPhil from the University of Cambridge. His writings have appeared in The New York Review Daily, The Nation, Foreign Affairs, and The Guardian, and he has provided commentary on Middle East affairs to the BBC World Service, France 24, National Public Radio, Democracy Now, and Al Jazeera.