I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces | Mona Eltahawy

“What’s he done now?” My parents live in Cairo and I’m in New York City. We FaceTime once a week and that question is like a game we play. My parents ask about Donald Trump and I ask about Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, whom Trump calls “my favourite dictator”. Aren’t we Egyptian-Americans lucky – a dictator for each side of our hyphen.

Tellingly, the “he . . .