Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Egypt.
When public dissent is risky or impossible, resistance does not disappear. It often becomes quieter, more practical and harder to recognize. For…
Hi again, Hossam. Since the last time we spoke, youāve become a doctor. Thatās true. I finished my dissertation, and now it…
The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as…
I graduated from Cairo University in 2008 ā the year the global economy collapsed. Ironically, at the time, Egypt was boasting exceptionally…
On June 9, 2025, a convoy of dozens of buses and hundreds of cars carrying several thousand volunteers departed from the Tunisian capital…
For my father’s generation, Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn’t just another Arab leader; he set the standard by which all others have been…
The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gazaāan act of collective…
From the moment Israel accepted the ceasefire deal, its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides have characterized it as a limited…
In the run-up to the July 2013 coup, supporters of the Egyptian military regularly circulated poorly photoshopped posters depicting then-defence minister Abdel…
In mid-March this year, the European Union signed aĀ Memorandum of UnderstandingĀ with Egypt aimed at curbing irregular migration to Europeās shores partly via…
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