Is al-Azhar under attack?
Sulaiman Lkaderi , Mohamed Hassan 15 October 2020 16:17 UTC | Egypt’s parliament rejected a bill that was set to strip the thousand-year-old al-Azhar University of its religious authority. It’s the latest […]
Egypt town fears worst for local men lost en route to Europe
Journey men took became terrifying ordeal long before they reached shores of Mediterranean By AFP – Oct 07,2020 – JORDAN TIMES Egyptian Karim Farrag displays a photo of […]
El-Sisi: Egyptian water rights are ‘national security issue’
It is not the first time that El-Sisi has described the water issue as a national security issue. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/ywepa Meeting with Kenyan leader zeroes in on development, […]
Egypt-Iraq-Jordan Alliance Tries to Change Middle East Dynamics
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 Curtis R. Ryan On August 25, 2020, the leaders of Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan met in Amman for the third in a succession of meetings marking ever-closer relations between […]
Nubians kingdom of Kush ruled ancient Egypt from 700 BC
The African History August 15, 2020 The 25th dynasty of Egypt, also known as the Nubian dynasty or kushite kingdom, was the last dynasty of Egypt’s Third Middle Era after […]
Egypt navy shot dead two Palestine fishermen
Egyptian naval forces have shot dead two Palestinian fishermen, and wounded and arrested a third on Friday after they allegedly crossed into Egyptian territorial waters September 26, 2020 Egyptian naval forces have shot dead two Palestinian fishermen, and wounded and arrested a third on Friday after they allegedly crossed into […]
ANCIENT EGYPT AND BLACK AFRICA
Early Contacts View PDF By David Bourke O’Connor (born 1938), who is an Australian Egyptologist, currently residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. O’Connor holds the position of Lila Acheson Wallace […]
Egypt discovers 27 sarcophagi more than 2,500 years old
© Reuters/Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities 2500-year-old coffins discovered in Egypt CAIRO (Reuters) – Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that […]
Egypt’s new administrative capital will be center of Middle East, says official
This picture taken on March 13, 2020 shows an aerial view of ongoing construction development at Egypt’s “New Administrative Capital” megaproject, some 45 kilometres east of Cairo. (AFP) Short Url […]
Historical maps of Egypt (Part I): The Golden Age of Egypt’s interest in the Nile
In the fifth century BCE, the Greek historian Herodotus described Egypt as a “gift of the Nile”. He was, in fact, referring to the Nile Delta, created thanks to the […]
Paws for thought: Egypt’s grand mufti rules on purity of dogs
Source: Arab News By Mohammed Abu Zaid CAIRO: Muslims and dogs can coexist, according to Egypt’s grand mufti who said that all living creatures were pure and it was the […]
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan agree to continue talks on Renaissance dam
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG AFRICA JUL 21, 2020 9:33 PM GMT+3 A general view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia, Dec. 26, 2019. (AFP) Ethiopia’s prime minister […]
Egypt/Ethiopia: ‘I will vote for a war’ – Naguib Sawiris
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW By Anne-Marie Bissada Posted on Wednesday, 22 July 2020 11:52 Egyptian billionaire businessman Naguib Sawiris in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Friday, March 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Egyptian billionaire Naguib […]
Egypt’s lawmakers to vote on deploying troops to Libya
Above, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi hosts dozens of tribal leaders loyal to Khalifa Haftar in Cairo in a photo released by the presidential spokesman on July 16, 2020. (AFP) Short Url […]
Egypt is backed into a corner over the Nile dam – it may have no choice but to go to war
Water is not the only vital interest at stake: Egypt’s president and former general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is fighting for his legitimacy Ahmed Aboudouh @AAboudouh 19 hours ago When I warned […]
The unlikely war between Egypt and Turkey in Libya
Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) forces in Tripoli, Libya on 27 March 2020 [Amru Salahuddien/Anadolu Agency] Hassan Abu Hanya July 14, 2020 Many countries are engaged in what is […]
Swiss-Egyptian lawyer in contention for the top post at the WTO
Hamid Mamdouh is a Swiss-Egyptian former trade negotiator for Egypt and ex-WTO official who lives and works as a lawyer in Geneva. Fabrice Coffrini / AFP June 9, 2020 – […]
So many people are sentenced and disappeared in Egypt, it’s a blur – yet the international community stays silent
Right now, human rights groups say they honestly do not know how many activists are behind bars in the country, writes Bel Trew @beltrew 1 day ago Egypt had halted all […]
Egypt accuses Ethiopia of holding it ‘hostage’ in Nile dam talks
By AFP – Jun 13,2020 – JORDAN TIMES An Egyptian fisherman rows a boat off the island of Warraq in the Nile River in the Egyptian capital Cairo on […]
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 […]