https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/egypt/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:26:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/africa/egypt/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/davos-trump-and-sisi-push-but-ethiopia-holds-its-nile-line/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/davos-trump-and-sisi-push-but-ethiopia-holds-its-nile-line/#respond Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:25:59 +0000 The Nile has always been more than a river. It is memory, identity and survival braided together across north-east Africa. Today, as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam rises on the Blue Nile, that ancient river has become a mirror reflecting the unfinished business of decolonisation, development and diplomacy. The debate unfolding between Ethiopia, Sudan and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/davos-trump-and-sisi-push-but-ethiopia-holds-its-nile-line/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/acquainting-ourselves-with-collapse/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/acquainting-ourselves-with-collapse/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286158 I graduated from Cairo University in 2008 — the year the global economy collapsed. Ironically, at the time, Egypt was boasting exceptionally high GDP growth rates led by a very progressive and technocratic government. It wasn’t long before that too collapsed and people took to the streets to protest income inequality and police brutality, among [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/acquainting-ourselves-with-collapse/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-road-to-rafah/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-road-to-rafah/#respond Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:42:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1285286 On June 9, 2025, a convoy of dozens of buses and hundreds of cars carrying several thousand volunteers departed from the Tunisian capital city of Tunis on a more than 2,500km journey to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Palestine. Dubbed the “Sumud” Convoy for its message of steadfastness and resilience, the convoy has been organized by a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-road-to-rafah/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unveiling-nassers-secrets-arabs-palestine-and-the-crucial-timing/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unveiling-nassers-secrets-arabs-palestine-and-the-crucial-timing/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:04:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283166 For my father’s generation, Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn’t just another Arab leader; he set the standard by which all others have been measured, and none have quite reached it. For the Arab masses, and Palestinians in particular, Nasser was an icon. His heroic image, in the eyes of Palestinians, took hold in Al-Faluja, a key pocket of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unveiling-nassers-secrets-arabs-palestine-and-the-crucial-timing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-deafening-silence-arab-complicity-and-the-normalization-of-evil-in-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-deafening-silence-arab-complicity-and-the-normalization-of-evil-in-gaza/#respond Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:14:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282548 The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gaza—an act of collective punishment against a captive civilian population. As famine tightens its grip and American-made bombs rain from the sky, global leaders stand by—paralyzed, indifferent, or willfully complicit—while Israel renders Gaza uninhabitable. Earlier this week, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-deafening-silence-arab-complicity-and-the-normalization-of-evil-in-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-is-preparing-to-sabotage-the-gaza-ceasefire-again/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-is-preparing-to-sabotage-the-gaza-ceasefire-again/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:51:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279632 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-is-preparing-to-sabotage-the-gaza-ceasefire-again/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-failure-of-militarized-diplomacy-egypts-coup-and-the-decline-of-continental-hegemony/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-failure-of-militarized-diplomacy-egypts-coup-and-the-decline-of-continental-hegemony/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271520 In the run-up to the July 2013 coup, supporters of the Egyptian military regularly circulated poorly photoshopped posters depicting then-defence minister Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as a lion, looked upon by the late president Gamal Abdel Nasser. Meanwhile, the elected Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, was accused of weakness that led to the degrading of Egypt’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-failure-of-militarized-diplomacy-egypts-coup-and-the-decline-of-continental-hegemony/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cairos-faustian-bargain-with-brussels-sends-sudanese-refugees-back-into-the-cauldron/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cairos-faustian-bargain-with-brussels-sends-sudanese-refugees-back-into-the-cauldron/#respond Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:32:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268994 In mid-March this year, the European Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Egypt aimed at curbing irregular migration to Europe’s shores partly via the kind of incentivised cash transfer that gives the impression that Brussels is serious about boosting the North African country’s economy. While the EU touted the €7.4 billion aid package as the silver [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cairos-faustian-bargain-with-brussels-sends-sudanese-refugees-back-into-the-cauldron/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cairo-fears-a-boomerang-effect-suppressing-protests-for-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cairo-fears-a-boomerang-effect-suppressing-protests-for-palestine/#respond Tue, 28 May 2024 18:01:23 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267067 On Tuesday, April 23rd, protesters in Cairo were detained while participating in a peaceful demonstration in support of women in Sudan and Gaza. Ironically, this event coincided with Sinai Liberation Day. This was anticipated, given Egypt’s history of suppressing protests since 2013, under Sisi. This is not the first time that activists have been arrested [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cairo-fears-a-boomerang-effect-suppressing-protests-for-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypt-has-betrayed-palestinians-in-their-time-of-greatest-need/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypt-has-betrayed-palestinians-in-their-time-of-greatest-need/#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2024 16:24:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264473 “Famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where an estimated 70 percent of the population faces catastrophic hunger, according to the United Nations Food Agency. Israeli journalist Zvi Bar’el reported that “Gazans are collecting weeds to prepare meals and mothers cannot breastfeed because they are so weak.” It took more than five months and the loss [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypt-has-betrayed-palestinians-in-their-time-of-greatest-need/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-is-the-proposed-ben-gurion-canal-tied-to-israels-gaza-invasion/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-is-the-proposed-ben-gurion-canal-tied-to-israels-gaza-invasion/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:11:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262298 In the past several years, interest has revived in the Ben Gurion Canal, a proposed alternative to the Suez Canal named after Israel’s founding father running through Israel close to Gaza. Creating an incentive for removal of Palestinians from Gaza, particularly the north end, it has raised suspicions that Israel had foreknowledge of Hamas’ October [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-is-the-proposed-ben-gurion-canal-tied-to-israels-gaza-invasion/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypt-threatens-netanyahu-with-end-of-camp-david-peace-accords-if-he-invades-rafah/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypt-threatens-netanyahu-with-end-of-camp-david-peace-accords-if-he-invades-rafah/#respond Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:41:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262092 It is being widely reported based on press leaks that the Egyptian government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has privately threatened Israel. Cairo is said to have warned that the 1978 Camp David Peace Treaty will be suspended “with immediate effect” if the government of Binyamin Netanyahu tries to take over the Philadelphi Corridor at the Gaza-Egypt [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypt-threatens-netanyahu-with-end-of-camp-david-peace-accords-if-he-invades-rafah/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egyptian-officials-are-demanding-a-massive-ransom-from-palestinians-to-escape-the-gaza-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egyptian-officials-are-demanding-a-massive-ransom-from-palestinians-to-escape-the-gaza-genocide/#respond Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:15:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261771 On February 19, I am going to turn 23. I’m anxious that the day will come and the war will still be ongoing, but then again, I’m not entirely sure I will live long enough to see it. Before the Israeli war on Gaza, I lived a peaceful life, going every day to Al-Aqsa University [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egyptian-officials-are-demanding-a-massive-ransom-from-palestinians-to-escape-the-gaza-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blocking-israels-supply-chain/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blocking-israels-supply-chain/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:54:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1260156 If demography is destiny, as Auguste Comte tells us, then economics must be current, pinching reality.  The Israel-Gaza conflict is invigorating a global protest movement against the state of Israel which is seeing various manifestations.  From an economic standpoint, Israel can be seen as vulnerable in terms of global supply lines, potentially at the mercy of sanctions [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/blocking-israels-supply-chain/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/egyptians-defy-protest-bans-we-are-one-with-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/egyptians-defy-protest-bans-we-are-one-with-palestine/#respond Sun, 12 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000 Mahmoud Hashem, an Egyptian journalist and the Media Official of the Popular Alliance Socialist Party, explains how the people of Egypt have defied repression and persecution to stand with the Palestinian people.    ]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/egyptians-defy-protest-bans-we-are-one-with-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pro-palestinian-protests-are-erupting-from-karachi-to-london/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pro-palestinian-protests-are-erupting-from-karachi-to-london/#respond Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:41:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1256307 In the last few days, hundreds of thousands of ordinary people have taken to the streets demanding an end to the murderous Israeli onslaught against the people of Gaza, which had claimed over five thousand lives by October 23. In Cairo on Friday, protesters ignored the tame demonstration organized by supporters of the dictator Abdel Fattah [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pro-palestinian-protests-are-erupting-from-karachi-to-london/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/shadi-hamid-on-how-obama-greenlighted-2013-egypt-coup-killing-the-arab-spring/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/shadi-hamid-on-how-obama-greenlighted-2013-egypt-coup-killing-the-arab-spring/#respond Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:53:18 +0000 On the 10th anniversary of the 2013 coup in Egypt when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed the country’s first democratically elected president from power, we speak with author Shadi Hamid about “Lessons for the Next Arab Spring,” in which he details how the Obama administration helped to kill the democratic uprising across the Middle East. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/shadi-hamid-on-how-obama-greenlighted-2013-egypt-coup-killing-the-arab-spring/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenwashing-governments-and-oil-companies-turned-cop27-into-a-climate-disaster/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenwashing-governments-and-oil-companies-turned-cop27-into-a-climate-disaster/#respond Sat, 19 Nov 2022 15:41:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1232240 The international climate talks in Egypt — the 27th Conference of Parties to the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP27 — have become a dystopian nightmare: Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured the process more effectively than ever. But there is hope: Alliances are taking shape — between civil society, scientists and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greenwashing-governments-and-oil-companies-turned-cop27-into-a-climate-disaster/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hunger-striker-vs-the-dictator/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hunger-striker-vs-the-dictator/#respond Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:01:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1232109 MANY OF THE tens of thousands of delegates attending the United Nations climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, go to these gatherings year after year on a kind of autopilot. They update their PowerPoint presentations, pack their organizational banners, and brush up their talking points. Next come the same warnings from the scientists and activists. The slightly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-hunger-striker-vs-the-dictator/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-to-expect-from-cop27-in-egypts-police-state/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-to-expect-from-cop27-in-egypts-police-state/#respond Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:48:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1224818 The global climate meeting called COP27 (the 27th Conference of Parties) will be held in the remote Egyptian desert resort of Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt from November 6-18. Given the extremely repressive nature of the Egyptian government, this gathering will likely be different from others, where there have been large, raucous protests led by civil society groups. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-to-expect-from-cop27-in-egypts-police-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cop27-egypt-oh-well/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cop27-egypt-oh-well/#respond Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:39:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1224808 Dateline: November 7-18, 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dignitaries from every country will be meeting to discuss climate change at COP27. Based upon early confirmations, 90 heads of state will attend, lending an aura of importance. “Climate change is the crisis of our lifetime. If we are not able to reverse the present trend that is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cop27-egypt-oh-well/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/egypts-carceral-climate-summit-naomi-klein-on-the-crisis-of-cop27-being-held-in-a-police-state/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/egypts-carceral-climate-summit-naomi-klein-on-the-crisis-of-cop27-being-held-in-a-police-state/#respond Mon, 24 Oct 2022 12:20:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1223450 Egypt is preparing to host world leaders next month at the U.N.’s annual climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, a move that prominent environmentalist and author Naomi Klein calls “greenwashing.” While the government embraces superficial causes to mitigate climate change such as recycling or solar panels, “what is not welcome would be pointing out this enormous [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/egypts-carceral-climate-summit-naomi-klein-on-the-crisis-of-cop27-being-held-in-a-police-state/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-blah-blah-blah-to-blood-blood-blood/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-blah-blah-blah-to-blood-blood-blood/#respond Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1222456 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-blah-blah-blah-to-blood-blood-blood/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-egyptian-woman-who-dared-the-nawal-el-saadawi-i-knew/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-egyptian-woman-who-dared-the-nawal-el-saadawi-i-knew/#respond Sun, 04 Apr 2021 09:00:56 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1045270 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/an-egyptian-woman-who-dared-the-nawal-el-saadawi-i-knew/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-should-stop-payment-on-u-s-funds-to-sisis-egypt/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-should-stop-payment-on-u-s-funds-to-sisis-egypt/#respond Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:03:43 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1043233 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-should-stop-payment-on-u-s-funds-to-sisis-egypt/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-covid-19-killing-the-coal-industry-in-egypt-and-around-the-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-covid-19-killing-the-coal-industry-in-egypt-and-around-the-world/#respond Sun, 19 Apr 2020 09:02:32 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1032254 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-covid-19-killing-the-coal-industry-in-egypt-and-around-the-world/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-asked-of-egypts-al-sisi-wheres-my-favorite-dictator/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-asked-of-egypts-al-sisi-wheres-my-favorite-dictator/#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:01:51 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1023626 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-asked-of-egypts-al-sisi-wheres-my-favorite-dictator/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egyptian-officials-threatened-morsi-days-before-death/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egyptian-officials-threatened-morsi-days-before-death/#respond Sun, 30 Jun 2019 08:59:15 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1021521 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egyptian-officials-threatened-morsi-days-before-death/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypts-brutal-crackdown-on-workers-rights/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypts-brutal-crackdown-on-workers-rights/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:00:02 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1018776 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypts-brutal-crackdown-on-workers-rights/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypts-president-facing-serious-questions/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypts-president-facing-serious-questions/#respond Sat, 25 Nov 2017 09:00:19 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1004660 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/egypts-president-facing-serious-questions/feed/ 0