Muhammad Mansour
Muhammad Mansour is a highly accomplished investigative journalist with more than ten-year, solid track record of producing high-quality print and online reports for international media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Times and Egypt Independent. He covers a broad range of topics related to Egyptian politics and global affairs. Mansour examines the junctions of Egyptian politics and society as they slowly disintegrate under the pressure of a ruthless military dictatorship. He gave lectures on new media and the Arab Spring in the Czech Republic and India. Mansour is currently a fellow at the Leaders for Democracy program at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York.
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Articles by Muhammad Mansour
The Death of Wilayat Sinai Spokesman Osama al-Masri and its Impact on the Insurgency in Sinai
The Egyptian military dealt a serious blow to the Islamic State’s (IS) Egyptian province, Wilayat (province) Sinai, when an airstrike killed influential spokesman Muhammad Ahmad Ali al-Islawi, a.k.a Abu Osama...
Egypt Indicts Yehia Moussa for Assassination of Egyptian Prosecutor General
An Egyptian court has indicted Yehia Elsayed Ibrahim Moussa—a.k.a. Yehia Moussa—for being the mastermind behind the murder of Egypt’s Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat on June 29, 2015. Moussa is a...
Operations Against Hasm Continue but Security Forces Still Face Challenges
Egyptian security forces killed seven alleged Hasm militants in a shootout that left one police officer wounded in Giza province, according to a statement made by the Ministry of Interior...
Giza Bus Attack Threatens Egypt’s Security
Egyptian security forces killed 40 militants in a shoot-out during an operation that targeted three strongholds in Giza province and North Sinai on December 29. A statement by the ministry...
EGYPT’S MOST WANTED CAPTURED: Will Hisham Ashmawy’s Arrest Deal Blow to Militant Groups in Egypt?
Egyptian authorities have finally heaved a sigh of relief after Libyan security forces arrested the most wanted Egyptian militant, Hisham Ali Ashmawy Mosaad Ibrahim (a.k.a. Abu Omar al-Muhajir al-Masri) “alive”...
Egypt Declares its Success in Dismantling Islamist Militancy
Eleven militants were killed by Egyptian security forces on October 24 in the latest of a series of preemptive attacks. The raid took place at a mountainous hideout located in...
Egypt’s Policies Entrench the Islamist Threat
At a time when Islamic State (IS) is losing ground in Syria and Iraq, its Sinai franchise dealt a blow to the Egyptian armed forces stationed in Sinai. On...
Al-Qaeda Top Leader’s Younger Brother, Muhammad Rabee al-Zawahiri, Released
Muhammad Mansour Muhammed Rabee al-Zawahiri, a younger brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, was released from Egyptian prison on March 17. A court had acquitted him on October 15 of...
The Islamic State’s Targeting Strategy in Egypt
The Egyptian government’s state of alert, under which dozens of activists were arrested ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Egyptian revolution, did not prevent militants from the Islamic State...
Egypt’s Most Wanted—Hisham Ali Ashmawy Mosaad Ibrahim
Hisham Ali Ashmawy Mosaad Ibrahim (a.k.a. Abu Omar al-Muhajir al-Masri) is a former Egyptian military officer turned al-Qaeda jihadist who has become the most wanted militant in Egypt. He defected...
Egypt’s Growing Militant Threat
During the past two months, Egypt has witnessed an unprecedented wave of attacks by Islamist militants, mostly launched by the Islamic State’s Egyptian branch—which calls itself “Sinai Province,” and which...
A Post-Mortem Profile of Egyptian Jihadist Leader Hamam Mohamed Attiya
In a televised speech, Egyptian Interior Ministry spokesperson Major Gen Hani Abdel Latif announced on April 5 that the jihadist leader of Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt), Hamam Mohamed Ahmad...
Egypt Struggles with Jihadist Challenge in Sinai
A series of attacks by the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) jihadist group against military checkpoints and facilities in northeast Sinai on January 29 killed at least 32 Egyptian soldiers and...
Fugitive Egyptian Militant Faisal Suliman Salma al-Mahsna Killed in Raid
In July, Egyptian security forces raided the house of Faisal Suliman Salma al-Mahsna, a leading jihadist, after failing to find him for eight months. Al-Mahsna, 38, was shot to death...
Coming to Grips with Terrorism in Egypt a Year after the Raba’a Square Massacre
Before the June 30, 2013 coup that overthrew Muhammad Mursi, Egypt’s first civilian elected president, terrorist operations in Egypt were far fewer in number and scale, focusing mainly on blowing...
Dead or Alive – Sinai’s Most Wanted: Shadi al-Manei
Egyptian security officials claimed that Shadi al-Manei, a leader of the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, was killed in an ambush set by tribesmen in Sinai on May 22...
Egypt’s Military Devises Strategy to Move Egypt beyond Political Islamism
Many local media channels in Egypt are constantly broadcasting the banner “Egypt Fighting Terrorism” in what seems to be a media campaign to mobilize the masses to support the military...