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
Russia-Ukraine war
Egypt has 'nine months before wheat reserve dries up' as Ukraine supply set for disruptions
Russia-Ukraine war
Egypt's tourism sector braces for painful blow as Russia moves in on Ukraine
Russia-Ukraine war
Thousands of Arab students stranded in Ukraine as Russia attacks
Inside Egypt
Egypt: Protests outside Giza factory after worker’s suicide
Sudan coup
Battle of the blockades as Sudanese protesters plot to choke off military rule
Inside Egypt
Protests outside factory in Egypt's Giza after worker dies by suicide over late wages
Corruption
From King Abdullah to Mubarak's sons, here are the Middle Eastern figures in the Credit Suisse leaks
Media
Arabic press review: Businessman is fourth to die in Egyptian prisons in 2022
Analysis
How Oman became the chief architect of Arab normalisation with Syria
Environment
Ethiopia begins generating electricity from controversial Nile dam
Sudan coup
Sudan protesters barricade Egypt border roads as face off with military continues
Film
Nation-building animation: The history of Arab cartoons