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Nancy Okail
@NancyGEO
President & CEO @CIPolicy. Ex-convict, Scholar, Tango dancer. Advocate: Justice, Human Rights, Peace & Security. @Stanford, @SussexUni. Fmr ED @TimepDC
Washington DC
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    Nancy Okail
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    Dec 20, 2018
    “This verdict should not be seen as the end of the chapter, but rather as a beginning of many effective reforms. I still remember the words on the wall of that cage.” My Oped in the NYT about the happy news of our acquittal from the #NGOtrial today.
    A Cairo intersection with a poster of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The heads of state change in Egypt, but the repressive structures stay the same, Nancy Okail writes.
    Opinion | I’ve Been Acquitted. Egypt’s Struggle Continues. (Published 2018)
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    Nancy Okail
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    Oct 26, 2022
    الفرق بين مكالمة مرتبكة ومرسلة بعد ٩ سنين سلطة وكلمة زياد العليمي المتزنة الموجزة بعد ٣ سنين سجن 🙌🏽
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    Nancy Okail
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    Oct 9, 2023
    We’re horrifically losing lives & our humanity. Can't accept Hamas' crimes against civilians nor the continued abuse of Palestinians under an apartheid occupation and currently under siege with no food, fuel, medicine or a way to escape. Violence & injustice won’t bring security.
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    Nancy Okail
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    Nov 21, 2024
    I’ve personally experienced the impact of laws like HR 9495. When Egypt's autocratic government used similar tactics to silence us for our pro-democracy work, the US—Dems & Republicans—was there to fight it. The idea that it’d now adopt the same framework fought is devastating.
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    Rep. Pramila Jayapal
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    Nov 21, 2024
    I just voted NO on HR 9495 — legislation that would give Donald Trump unfettered power to punish civil society groups, news outlets, hospitals, and universities with zero due process. It’s an authoritarian and undemocratic play by Republicans to go after political enemies.
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    Nancy Okail
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    Nov 10, 2023
    Bashar Al-Assad is royally greeted in Saudi Arabia for the Emergency Arab Summit. What’s more fitting than to invite a war criminal to address war crimes?
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    قناة الإخبارية
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    Nov 10, 2023
    فيديو | الرئيس السوري بشار الأسد يصل إلى العاصمة الرياض للمشاركة في #قمة_عربية_طارئة_بالسعودية #الإخبارية
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    Nancy Okail
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    Dec 7, 2024
    No, it’s not a ‘box of surprises.’ Like anywhere else, stability in the Middle East cannot thrive on repression, injustice & impunity. Yet, Western powers ignore this, propping up strongmen & arming them unconditionally. When statues fall again, it’s not a surprise—it’s a pattern
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    Aaron David Miller
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    Dec 7, 2024
    The Middle East is nothing if it's not a box of surprises missed by great powers, small ones, and seasoned analysts alike. The HTS offensive and the implosion of Assad's control in Syria following October 7 is the second event in a year plus that has rocked the region.
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    Nancy Okail
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    Nov 4, 2023
    You cannot see the end of it. End the Bombing now. Washington DC. #CeasefireNow
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    Nancy Okail
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    Oct 13, 2023
    Anything short of calling for an immediate ceasefire will be contributing to an impending catastrophe. It isn’t only impossible to evacuate 1.1M ppl in 24 hrs, it isn’t just targeting Hamas; it's as Nakba, displacing Palestinians & warranting the killing & harms to those who stay
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    Nancy Okail
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    Nov 8, 2023
    Shame on those who even spent time on this while thousands of civilians and children are dying
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    POLITICO
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    Nov 8, 2023
    Rashida Tlaib censure passes ow.ly/8tXH1050F7A
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    Nancy Okail
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    Feb 27, 2019
    #محطة_مصر 17 years ago this month, over 370 Egyptians died in Al Ayat train fire. Several cabinet changes & three presidents later, nothing of what’s written here about the continuous loss of Egyptians lives due to negligence & corruption has changed a bit facebook.com/721635295/post…
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    Nancy Okail
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    Apr 14, 2021
    It’s heartwarming to see photos of Solafa Magdy & Hossam El-Sayad finally reunited with their son & to see Khaled Dawoud with his family after their release. They shouldn’t have been imprisoned in the first place. Keeping hopes high for all the rest who are unjustly imprisoned 🙏🏽
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    Nancy Okail
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    Dec 20, 2018
    After six long difficult years, our innocence is finally recognized. In 2013, 43 NGO workers were found guilty in the #NGO tidal and charged to prison sentence. We never broke the law and civil society work should have never been criminalized.
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    Nancy Okail
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    Sep 21, 2019
    Just like the Egyptian regime does not learn from the past, some analysts and “experts” have not learned to stop making definitive predictions such as “nothing will happen” or assert that a particular outcome will certainly take place.
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    Nancy Okail
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    Jul 18, 2023
    Here’s @PatrickZaki1 an Egyptian researcher banned from traveling, successfully defending his MA thesis from the University of Bologna remotely. Today, he got sentenced to 3 years in prison in Cairo. That’s the reality behind Egypt's national dialogue theatrics & cosmetic reforms
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