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
Islamophobia
Muslim countries condemn Quran burning in Sweden
Egypt Turmoil
Egypt coup: A decade on, liberals must do some serious self-reflection
Khalil al-Anani
Human Rights
UN warns Arab League security body failing to protect against political extraditions
Egypt Turmoil
In Sisi's Egypt, there is no easy escape from authoritarian rule
Robert Springborg
Migration
Greece gave 'no response' to aerial support offer before shipwreck, says Frontex
US Politics
US congressional committee proposes eliminating special representative for Palestine
Migration
Greece shipwreck: Trial of nine Egyptian men founded on 'fragile evidence' say activists
Inside Egypt
Rescue teams in Egypt search for survivors after 13-storey building collapse
Inside Qatar
Qatar's decade of crisis and triumph
Andreas Krieg
Refugees
Egyptian refugees struggle to navigate Italian system
Eid
Chicken or lamb? Scholar’s ruling permitting sacrificing birds for Eid al-Adha sparks uproar in Egypt
Arabic Press Review
Arabic press review: Saudi man hosts 1,300 Russian Hajj pilgrims