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
Diplomacy
Saudi downplays recent Hamas visit to kingdom
Egypt Turmoil
Egypt jails former Mubarak PM for corruption
Egypt Turmoil
21 dead as cargo ship hits party boat north of Cairo
Egypt Turmoil
Western journalists covering Egypt must speak truth to tyrannical power
Mohamad Elmasry
Diplomacy
Cameron’s mixed message on extremism and democracy
Peter Oborne
Egypt Turmoil
Egyptian liberals: Double standards and the forsaking of values
Shahira Amin
Egypt Turmoil
France delivers first batch of fighter jets in $5bn Egypt deal
Women
VIDEO: Egyptian policewoman slaps alleged sexual harasser
Sinai Crisis
The perils of daily life under military rule in North Sinai
Variety
VIDEO: Meet Egypt's 'roba bika' collectors
Egypt Turmoil
Where is Esraa? Egypt's authorities step up forced disappearances
Egypt Turmoil
Deadly clashes in Sinai as army hits militant hideouts