Arab countries could stop Israeli land grab
Source: Arab News By Daoud Kuttab The president’s blueprint gave Israel much of what it has long sought, including US recognition of settlements and Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley […]
Egypt to ban Ramadan gatherings to counter spread of coronavirus
Apr 7, 2020 – swissinfo.ch CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will ban any public religious gatherings during the holy Muslim fasting month Ramadan starting in around two weeks to counter the […]
Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their war of words over water
Donald Trump can actually help mediate the dispute before it escalates into violence Ahmed Aboudouh @AAboudouh http://www.independent.co.uk The Nile, one of the wonders of the natural world, finds itself […]
‘Star of the East’ Umm Kulthum returns to light up Cairo
By AFP – Mar 08,2020 – JORDAN TIMES A hologram of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is projected on stage at Cairo Opera House in Cairo, late on Friday, about 45 years after the singer’s death (AFP photo) CAIRO — Revered Arab singer Umm Kulthum returned to light up the […]
Rulings spark hope for Egyptian Copts fighting Islamic estate law
Short Url https://arab.news/cu7bg AFP February 10, 2020 Egyptian courts have largely applied Islamic inheritance laws to both Muslims and the Coptic Christian minority But Coptic Orthodox customs call for […]
Egypt court backs niqab ban on Cairo University staff
Source: New Straits Times A top Egyptian court has ruled in favour of banning female academic staff at Cairo University from wearing the Muslim face veil, known as the niqab, […]
Dispute at al-Azhar conference reflects deep divisions over Islamic renewal
Source: Arab Weekly By Amr Emam, who is a Cairo-based journalist. He has contributed to the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the UN news site IRIN. Cairo University […]
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, […]
