Saker El Nour

Sedition à la carte| How the faithful come to believe

Society_

Why did thousands embrace the Tayyibat diet? Beneath the viral craze lies a survival strategy of selective belief, birthed by skyrocketing medical costs and neglect.

Saker El Nour_ 16-8-2026

Sedition à la carte| How the faithful come to believe

Sedition à la carte| How one half-truth launched a movement

Society_

The state’s closure of Al Awady’s clinic ironized his movement, turning a medical suspension into absolute proof for followers that he was a martyr fighting a corrupt system.

Saker El Nour_ 26-7-2026

Sedition à la carte| How one half-truth launched a movement

“Egypt’s Future” on the backs of peasants

Urban & Economy_

Transformations routinely presented as hallmarks of modernization and efficiency amount to a slow dismantling of the countryside’s capacity to reproduce its own life in practice.

Saker El Nour_ 5-2-2026

“Egypt’s Future” on the backs of peasants

It is mismanagement that floods the Nile

Viewpoints_

Sudan treats the Nile flood as climate and dam-driven; Egypt frames it as politics. In both, farmers bear the cost of mismanaged waters.

Saker El Nour_ 23-10-2025

It is mismanagement that floods the Nile

GERD as a Diversion: Megaprojects for the powerful, austerity for small farmers

Urban & Economy_

As Egypt feared GERD’s impact, the state expanded desert megaprojects, diverting water from small farmers and deepening rural inequality in the name of development.

Saker El Nour_ 11-9-2025

GERD as a Diversion: Megaprojects for the powerful, austerity for small farmers