While murder and torture are inherently of concern, Giulio Regeni’s case has much broader implications for higher education in the UK and beyond, argues his friend Neil Pyper.

In a cross-posting with Social Science Space partner Viva Voce podcasts, Helen Underhill at the University of Manchester describes how Egyptians living outside their native land respond to the political turmoil there, and how there is not single ‘Egyptian voice’ that speaks for them all.

For more than a decade a group of intellectual freedom fighters survived at Egyptian universities only to see their movement falter just when political freedoms expanded