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From Our Own Correspondent: Disenchanted Egypt

03/03/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Essential, From Our Own Correspondent: Disenchanted Egypt

Orla Guerin reads the mood (and the jokes) of a nation now less confident in Pres Sisi

Orla Guerin senses a change in Egypt's mood - and its attitude to President Sisi - as the economy and human rights worsen and political humour grows ever more pointed

Egypt's President Sisi still has some passionate supporters - but are the masses drifting away from him? Amid a worsening economy and growing claims of human-rights abuses, political humour is getting rather pointed these days. The BBC's Orla Guerin reports from Cairo on the word on the street. 

Photo: Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaking to the press in Athens on December 8, 2015. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images)

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