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 Egypt
Trump asked Sisi for free passage through Suez Canal, military support against Houthis: Report
Human Rights
Alaa Abd el-Fattah falls ill after marking 50 days of hunger strike
Human Rights
Egypt prison deaths a 'warning sign' as conditions deteriorate sharply
Gaza Under Attack
Why Hamas will not surrender
David Hearst
Human Rights
'A cynical decision': Shock after EU labels Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia 'safe'
Economy
Will Trump's tariffs make the Middle East's struggling economies competitive?
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Israel accused of incitement against Egypt over Sinai troop buildup claims
Economy
The losers and worse losers of Trump’s tariffs on the Middle East and North Africa
Health
Middle East and North Africa experiencing 'escalating HIV epidemic'
Economy
How BlackRock and an Italian shipping dynasty are upending Middle East's port business
Trump's Israel-Palestine plan
Witkoff and Trump’s Gaza dream has one thing missing: Palestinians
David Hearst
Diplomacy
Steve Witkoff and Tucker Carlson: Key Middle East points from US envoy interview