{"id":16782,"date":"2026-01-18T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/?p=16782"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:29:05","slug":"ammar-ali-hasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/ammar-ali-hasan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ammar Ali Hassan: The Press Is Shackled, Parliament Engineered and the National Dialogue a Wasted Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a country where the public sphere shrinks year after year, and where politics turns into an activity fraught with risk, the question of the role of the intellectual, the limits of speech and the meaning of dialogue becomes an existential question. Here, talk about the press, parliament or the opposition is no mere elitist discussion, but a matter that touches on the right to knowledge and the possibility of imagining a different future.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this context comes this extended interview with the writer and political thinker Ammar Ali Hassan, as a critical testimony on a moment of crisis, in which he speaks from the position of witness and critic at once. Hassan draws on his long experience of following the transformations of the Egyptian public sphere, and approaches the political and cultural scene from its most sensitive angles: press freedom, the structure of parliament, the crisis of the opposition, and the outcomes of what was called the “National Dialogue”. He offers no flattering answers, nor does he settle for superficial description; rather, he goes to the roots of the imbalance, linking political repression, the erosion of the public sphere, the rise of social violence and the blocked horizon of culture and writing.<\/span><\/p>\n