Activist academics played a pivotal role in the country’s 2011 uprising, but today the corrosion of academic freedom of expression continues, writes Heather McRobie
Academia in Egypt: Security forces and self-censorship
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Heather McRobie
Heather McRobie
McRobie is writer, journalist and researcher who is completing a PhD on the Egyptian revolution. She co-edits openDemocracy's gender and justice section and her book on literary freedom and literary hate speech was published by Zer0 Books in December 2013.