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Mostafa Hefny

Mostafa Hefny is an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo.

Student Protest and the Politics of Palestine in Egypt
Egyptian students from Alexandria University take part in a demonstration, October 18, 2023, denouncing the killing of hundreds of Palestinians in an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza. Hazem Gouda/AFP via Getty Images
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Student Protest and the Politics of Palestine in Egypt

In October 2023, two weeks after Israel launched a brutal assault on Gaza, the Egyptian government permitted the first sizable protests in support of Palestine. At Benha University, about 30 miles north of Cairo in the Nile Delta, students and university administrators joined together in what the university described in
Sean Lee, Mostafa Hefny • 13 min read