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
Why inmates are dying in Egypt's new 'model' prison
Human Rights
German human rights official ‘not welcome’ to visit Egypt 
Occupation
The Palestinian Authority's controversial role in West Bank security
Inside Syria
Egypt's foreign minister meets Assad in first Syria visit since war
Inside Egypt
Suicides and hunger strikes against conditions in Egypt's new 'model prison'
Media
Arabic press review: Egypt mediates to prevent Palestine-Israel escalation
Arms Trade
US launches overhaul of arms export policy with new human rights emphasis
Russia-Ukraine war
Seven ways the Russia-Ukraine war shaped the Middle East and North Africa
Russia-Ukraine war
How the Middle East is becoming Russia's economic lifeline
LGBTQ+
LGBT people 'entrapped by security forces on dating apps'
Inside Egypt
Kevin Hart's debut Egypt show cancelled after 'Afrocentric' views controversy
Diplomacy
Dialogue needed with Syria government, says Saudi foreign minister