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
Turkey-Syria earthquake
Five deadly earthquakes in the Middle East through history
Egypt Turmoil
Escape from Egypt: How I fled the media crackdown
Diplomacy
Saudi writers' criticism of Sisi's economic model prompts rare Egyptian backlash
Media
Arabic press review: Egypt markets grapple with counterfeit medicine and food items
Heritage
Five inventions from ancient Egypt we still use
Inside Egypt
Why Egyptian physicians are quitting, leaving hospitals high and dry
Inside Egypt
Three TikTok influencers arrested after parody video of jail visit
Media
Arabic press review: Egyptian opposition abroad calls for Sisi to step down
Inside Egypt
Egyptians struggle to afford food as Sisi says it's 'not end of the world'
Inside Egypt
Three Egyptian TikTok influencers arrested after parody video of jail visit
Economy
Egypt crisis: Sisi's mega projects are no substitute for feeding the people
Farah Choucair
Diplomacy
Blinken in Cairo ahead of Israel-Palestine trip as violence flares in the region