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
Suez Canal revenues plunge by 60 percent as Egypt faces economic and political turmoil
Inside Egypt
Egypt: Sisi fears a popular uprising after the fall of Assad in Syria
Inside Egypt
Egypt: After Assad's fall, Sisi warns of ‘chaos and destruction’ in propaganda video
Syria after Assad
Egypt orders deportation of Syrians who celebrated Assad's fall
Inside Egypt
Egypt under Sisi: Will repression and stagnation continue in 2025?
Hossam el-Hamalawy
Syria after Assad
Will Syria's new rulers abandon resistance to Israel?
Hicham Safieddine
Syria after Assad
Assad's downfall shows that no Middle East regime is too big to fail
Maged Mandour
Syria after Assad
Turkey's Erdogan to visit Cairo with Syria high on agenda
Inside Israel
Israel fears Assad's fall could embolden protesters in Egypt and Jordan
Saudi Human Rights
Saudi Arabia to imminently deport Egyptian activist facing life imprisonment
Syria War
Gulf monarchies scramble in Syria as ghosts of the Arab Spring return
Syria War
Assad downfall: Is the Arab Spring back from the dead?
David Hearst