In prison, the police allowed us to have certain personal items; clothes, letters, family photos, books,and so on; for two reasons. First, because having such things help inmates feel settled; and second, because by allowing us to have them, they could make us fear losing them.
Obviously, a prisoner actually owns nothing. Anything and everything under his possession does not belong to him, because he himself is under the possession of the prison administration. Everything he has is theirs. They can take it at any moment, and the prisoner has no recourse.
This, again, is like society under dictatorship, particularly when that dictatorship is employed in the service of imperial powers. Everything you have can be taken at any moment; your internet, your mobile network, your passport, your home, your freedom to move from place to place, and your life itself.
Ibn Hazm said that “the land is ascribed to those who dominate it, rule it and control it.”, and this is correct.
A land in which you have no rights, no control over your own life, no voice in policy-making, no security; is not your land, it is a prison; and it belongs to whoever is controlling and dominating it.
In the case of Egypt, and indeed, Tunisia, Algeria, and many others, that domination is exercised by the global owners of capital. They are the wardens of the prison, the regimes are just subordinate prison guards.