ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how Sisi’s regime has employed counterterrorism discourse to construct an atmosphere that tolerates human rights violation practices. Besides, unpacking the articulation between the discourse and practices of counterterrorism, and how the discourse contributes to the accumulating process of normalising, legitimising, and institutionalising these practices, the chapter claims that both counterterrorism discourse and practices are integral components of a bigger strategy that seeks to terrorise, repress, and dominate not only the political “public” sphere or the political process, but rather everyday life. The strategy’s indicators can be identified in six principal practices: suppressing freedom of expression, restricting freedom of assembly, prohibiting freedom of association, torturing and human rights abuses, controlling civilians and forced displacement, and targeting political opponents and activists.
