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
Yemen War
Why Yemen is a key tool in UAE-Israeli plot for regional chaos
Andrew Hammond
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Angelina Jolie visits Rafah Crossing in Egypt, meets Palestinians from Gaza
Human Rights
Stripping Alaa Abd el-Fattah of citizenship would be a 'dangerous' precedent, rights groups warn
Human Rights
Alaa Abd el-Fattah pushes back against calls to revoke his UK citizenship
Diplomacy
How Trump, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and others reacted to Israeli recognition of Somaliland
Israel normalisation deals
Why Arab normalisation with Israel means more colonisation
Joseph Massad
US Politics
Arrogance, hubris and ideology: How 2025 capped a quarter century of US failures
David Hearst
Sport
Mohamed Salah changed Liverpool. English football changed him
Human Rights
‘End to right of asylum’: EU labels Egypt and other ‘repressive’ states as ‘safe countries’
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Will anyone stop Israel and the UAE sowing chaos across the region in 2026?
Mohamad Elmasry
US Politics
Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood ban is a blunt answer to the Gaza genocide
Abdullah Al-Arian
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Qatar and Egypt call for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza