“You do not deserve freedom and justice, if you deny them for your opponents, and if you do not strive to grant them the full rights of citizenship, so be sure that no one will strive for yours, unless you experience the bitter taste of being segregated. Freedom, justice and equality are rights that you cannot simply strive for at times and at times deny them; such (state of) schizophrenia exists only in the psyches of tyrants.” It is with these reflections that columnist Hanān al-Hamsharī in al-Sabāh deliver her report on minorities in Egypt and their (eligible) fear of emerging discrimination and persecution with the upcoming Constitution.