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
Arts
In pictures: Depictions of Cleopatra through the ages
Inside Egypt
Netflix: Egyptians launch social media campaign over Cleopatra depiction
Crime
Tariq Ramadan acquitted of charges in Swiss rape trial
Arabic Press Review
Arabic press review: Egyptian prisoners launch collective hunger strike
Economy
How Sisi has accelerated Egypt's economic tailspin 
Emad Shahin
Diplomacy
In Pictures: Assad and Zelensky warmly welcomed at Arab League summit
Human Rights
Egypt 'disappears' former student leader, prompting calls for probe
TV
Egypt is a broken country. Netflix’s Cleopatra provocation is the last thing it needs
Sinai Crisis
Egypt 'detaining and torturing' female relatives of IS militants in North Sinai
Arabic Press Review
Iranians snapping up properties in Damascus: Arabic press review
TV
Fighting over Cleopatra's ancestry is futile
Ahmed D Dardir
Human Rights
Egyptian hunger striker's health declining as he protests South Korea deportation