Egypt

Human Rights

Egyptian detainees issue call for government to apply new caps to pretrial detention

The new Criminal Procedure Code, adopted in November and set to take effect in October this year, promises to place limits on periods of pretrial detention
Migration
US immigration policy is coming for your Saturday night plans
Sumayya Tobah
War on Iran
The UAE, like the US and Israel, is normalising a permanent state of war in the Middle East
David Hearst
Human Rights
UAE president pardons Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Sudan war
US diplomat Boulos won't name 'at least 12 countries' involved in Sudan war
Diplomacy
Xi’s Egypt visit tests Cairo’s balancing act
Economy
Why China-Egypt cooperation has nothing to do with great-power rivalry 
Nelson Wong
War on Iran
US cuts off major Egyptian bank from global financial system
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Hamas must not concede in talks what Israel failed to win on the battlefield
Sami Al-Arian
Inside Egypt
Cairo accused of ‘punishment by proxy’ after British-Egyptian woman arrested over sister's activism
Inside Egypt
Egyptian-UAE free zone for oil storage and trading established in New Alamein
Inside UAE
Fear grows among Egyptians in UAE over residency cancellations, report says
UK Politics
Israelis are second least wanted migrants in UK after Russians, poll finds
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Why the Mecca Agreement has given the UAE-Israel alliance the jitters
David Hearst
Inside Egypt
Thirteen years after Rabaa massacre, families urge Egypt to free political prisoners
War on Iran
How a pragmatic axis could reshape the Middle East
Marco Carnelos
Film
Christopher Nolan remakes the Odyssey as an Anglo-American imperial fantasy
Hamid Dabashi
Inside Saudi Arabia
'Agility vs depth': How the Mecca pact stacks up against the UAE-Israel alliance
Inside Egypt
Families of Egyptian political prisoners launch UK advocacy group
Diplomacy
Why Egypt held back from joining Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan's defence pact
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Why the Mecca Agreement is a necessary show of force
David Hearst
Diplomacy
Turkey and Saudi Arabia's rocky relations: A brief history
War on Iran
Saudi Arabia's last major oil route comes under Houthi pressure