In Brief Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student at Cambridge who was studying abroad in Egypt, disappeared on his way to a party in Cairo. He was found dead by the roadside over a week later. Case History Regeni, 28, was last seen heading to a birthday party on January 25, 2016—the fifth anniversary of the start of the uprising that ended the 30-year reign of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. When Regeni was found on February 3, he was so severely wounded that his mother

On June 3, 2018, Walid Salem, a University of Washington doctoral student conducting research on Egypt’s judiciary system, was detained in Cairo on charges of “spreading false news” and “belonging to a terrorist group,” among other crimes, according to his lawyer Mokhtar Mounir. Salem’s arrest comes during a wave of detentions of journalists and activists in Egypt that has drawn scrutiny from Human Rights Watch and other organizations concerned that President Abdel Fattah al-

An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death, and this ruling also applies to another 106 people. Among them is Emad Shahin, the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and the professor of political science. Shahin was accused of colluding with Iran and the Palestinian group Hama to destabilize Egypt and was thus sentenced in absentia to death. The scholar currently lives in the US and is a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Sch