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
Religion
Saudi Arabia starts Ramadan on Wednesday, but many others to begin a day later
Israel's genocide in Gaza
Gaza reconstruction: Who has signed up to Trump’s Board of Peace?
Film
El Sett: Why did the Saudi-backed biopic about Umm Kulthum flop?
Islamophobia
Britain must reject the UAE's Brotherhood bogeyman
Andreas Krieg
Music
The voice and the rifle: How Umm Kulthum became a target of the Mossad
Majd Asadi
Israel normalisation deals
Majority of Arabs oppose normalisation with Israel, pan-Arab survey finds
Occupation
Israel's attorney general backs 'de facto West Bank annexation' measures, report says
Horn of Africa
Why Israel's recognition of Somaliland risks further destabilising the Red Sea
Abdiwali Sayid
Diplomacy
Egypt and Saudi Arabia focus on Eritrea as UAE bolsters ties to Ethiopia
Arms Trade
Turkey signs $350m arms deal with Egypt
TV
Egyptian Ramadan series on Gaza ignites debate online
Sudan war
Egypt carrying out air strikes on RSF in Sudan from secret base