VOMENA Feb 8, 2019: Hossam El-Hamalawy on the legacy of the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and MENA region

This week , we speak with exiled Egyptian socialist activist Hossam El-Hamalawy about the legacy of the Arab Spring in his country - and in the middle east and north Africa region. Despite the bleak economic situation and unspeakably ferocious political repression in Egypt, El- Hamalawy explains why he is still hopeful that - in the long term - the revolution will survive and overcome.