Egypt needs to agree Renaissance Dam deal
Dr. Abdellatif El-Menawy January 14, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/5vb3b There are just hours left until the results of the latest crucial round of negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam […]
The future of the Middle East will be as rooted in the past as surely as we shall all be dead by its denouement
@indyvoices 9 hours ago Robert Fisk, The Independent The Arab uprising, 2011: Revolutions and their histories are cyclical in nature. We journalists divide the past and present at our […]
How do dictators retain power, even when reviled and mocked by those they govern?
Modern-day despots wish to be blessed for their extravagant genius. But, Robert Fisk asks, what are we to make of this lunacy? And do they really believe their own hype? […]
Meet the controversial actor and businessman standing up against Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
‘I am trying to be the voice that makes people go down [to the streets] to stand against Sisi. If all of them went, there would be no risk to […]
In Egypt, polygamy has its apologists and nemeses
Source: Arab weekly By Hassan Abdel Zaher is a Cairo-based contributor to The Arab Weekly. Cairo – Rania Hashem is seen as an enemy to many of Egypt’s married women. […]
The liberal spirit captivating the Mideast’s revolutions
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed November 24, 2019 Reflecting on the three major events in the Middle East — Iran, Iraq and Lebanon — we realize that they are more than […]
Egyptian woman fights unequal Islamic inheritance laws
Source: Al Jazeera Case involving Coptic Christian woman comes as calls for equal inheritance rights reverberate across the Arab world. An Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws […]
Egypt’s president to meet with Ethiopia PM over Nile dispute
Reuters October 13, 2019 Sisi said in televised remarks Sunday the meeting with Abiy Ahmed will take place in Russia Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan failed to resolve their differences over the Blue Nile dam CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday he would meet Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy […]
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is getting away with tyranny in Egypt thanks to his UK and US allies
Over 3,000 people have been detained in anti-government protests. Yet Trump calls the Egyptian president his favourite dictator, and Britain remains Egypt’s single largest investor Bel Trew @beltrew Some […]
‘Blindsided by the beauty’: architects struggle to save Cairo’s historic heart
Sep 11, 2019 REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (reuters_tickers) By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) – Alaa al-Habashi was looking for ingredients for a Ramadan feast when he stumbled on an […]
Egypt’s creative solutions to the plastic menace
Arab News Monday . August 26, 2019 Mostafa Adel Egyptian social startups are taking alternative approaches to fostering awareness and reducing waste While initiatives around the world are taking action to combat this problem, some Egyptian projects are doing it more creatively CAIRO: Global plastics production reached 348 million tons […]
Is Sufism an alternative to political Islam?
Source: The Arab Weekly By Hisham al-Najjar Is Sufism an alternative to political Islam? The Sufi current should not have political wings that would represent it, as was the case with […]
Special Report: How Sisi’s Egypt hands out justice
Jul 31, 2019 – 11:27 By Reuters staff KAFR AL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family finally saw him again nearly three months later, […]
Egypt’s national day isn’t just a public holiday – it’s a reminder of the army’s influence on the entire Middle East
A new kind of collision between regional alliances is becoming the new life-or-death matter in the Arab world. And Egypt’s military is again in the heart of the complex and […]
Egypt discusses customary marriage, polygamy
N.A. Hussein July 1, 2019 Article Summary The Egyptian Catholic Church recently announced that it needs to further study the unified personal status law proposals, at a time when customary […]
Despite need for Sinai funds, Egypt unlikely to join Kushner plan
This content was published on June 27, 2019 By Sami Aboudi and Yousef Saba CAIRO (Reuters) – A U.S.-proposed $9 billion (£7 billion) aid package could tempt Egypt with long-sought […]
The West is silent over the death of a man it once called the great hope of Arab democracy
The lack of comment from our heads of state is positive encouragement to every Middle Eastern leader who now knows their own misdeeds will go unpunished Robert Fisk @indyvoices The […]
Egyptian democracy died yesterday in a prison cage alongside Morsi
To me, when you die in a dictator’s prison – even if you are not Egypt’s only elected president – then you are, in some sense, murdered Robert Fisk @indyvoices […]
Egyptian striker Salah caused Islamophobia in Liverpool to drop, study says
Source: Daily Sabah Liverpool’s Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah’s presence at the football club has been a direct cause of a decrease in Islamophobia and bigotry against Muslims in the British […]
The west turns a blind eye to Middle Eastern violence at its own peril
In failing to hold Egypt and Saudi Arabia to account over the deaths of Giulio Regeni and Jamal Khashoggi, the west is making a rod for its own back Dr […]
