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Society_

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

When the law stays silent, injustice speaks loudest. In Egypt, survivors like Asmaa face broken systems and archaic laws that protect abusers more than the abused.

Fatma El-Zahraa Badawy_ 12-7-2025

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

Viewpoints_ Lapid's playbook: Arab allies for Israel's ‘dirty work’

Mohamed Bassal_ 10-7-2025

Lapid's playbook: Arab allies for Israel's ‘dirty work’

Viewpoints_ Egypt's Blood Money: Sisi’s vision for plasma ‘donation’ has potential risks

Omar Okasha_ 8-7-2025

Egypt's Blood Money: Sisi’s vision for plasma ‘donation’ has potential risks
Politics_

Parliament Diaries| Accountability offline as Ramses blaze paralyzes Egypt

A fire torched Egypt’s digital backbone. Ministers blamed pipes. MPs asked questions no one answered. The system failed—again—and no one, as usual, will be held accountable.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 10-7-2025

Parliament Diaries| Accountability offline as Ramses blaze paralyzes Egypt

News_

Egypt anchors BRICS' local currency push amid Trump tariff threats

Egypt anchors BRICS' local currency push amid Trump tariff threats

Small investors demand compensation after Ramses fire disrupts business

Small investors demand compensation after Ramses fire disrupts business

Egypt offers free data after Ramses fire disrupts telecom services

Egypt offers free data after Ramses fire disrupts telecom services

Global watchdogs decry targeting of AFTE’s Mohamed Abdel Salam

Global watchdogs decry targeting of AFTE’s Mohamed Abdel Salam

Politics_

Parliament Diaries| A nation lost to lack of accountability

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 2-7-2025

Parliament Diaries| A nation lost to lack of accountability

Kamel Al-Wazir: El-Sisi’s golden child

Mohamed El Kholy_ 1-7-2025

Kamel Al-Wazir: El-Sisi’s golden child

From Iraq 1981 to Iran 2025: How the Begin Doctrine disciplines the world

How Israel’s 1981 strike on Iraq shaped a doctrine of preemptive war—one echoed today in its attacks on Iran, with US backing and regional consequences.

Mohamed Bassal_ 26-6-2025

From Iraq 1981 to Iran 2025: How the Begin Doctrine disciplines the world

Urban & Economy_

Fast track to privatization: Who’s running Egypt’s trains?

Mohamed Ismail_ 28-6-2025

Fast track to privatization: Who’s running Egypt’s trains?

Corruption as leverage: How institutional weakness fuels neoliberalism

Osama Diab_ 19-6-2025

Corruption as leverage: How institutional weakness fuels neoliberalism

Sayyida Aisha Bridge: a failure easier to blame on the jinn

Dubbed the “Bridge of Death,” Sayyida Aisha Bridge saw decades of crashes, myths, and official denial—until its long-overdue demolition was finally announced.

Mohamed El Kholy_ 8-6-2025

Sayyida Aisha Bridge: a failure easier to blame on the jinn

Society_

Inside the shattered village of Kafr El-Sanabsa, beyond the microbus crash

Mostafa Bassiouny_ 8-7-2025

Inside the shattered village of Kafr El-Sanabsa, beyond the microbus crash

From Supreme Court judge to shopkeeper, Sudan’s war shatters professions

Once a journalist, now a water seller. A supreme judge turned shopkeeper. War in Sudan has redrawn lives, forcing professionals to redefine identity and survival.

Mussab Mohamed Ali_ 4-7-2025

From Supreme Court judge to shopkeeper, Sudan’s war shatters professions

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

Sara Allam Shaltout_ 29-6-2025

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

Culture_

Therapy dramas as drama therapy

Ghadeer Mahajna_ 27-6-2025

Therapy dramas as drama therapy

Jacques Hassoun: Jew of the Nile

An intimate journey through memory, exile, and identity, tracing the fractured yet enduring soul of Egypt’s Jewish minority through the life of Jacques Hassoun.

Alaa Khaled_ 10-6-2025

Jacques Hassoun: Jew of the Nile

Falling in love with AI!

Essam Zakaria_ 9-6-2025

Falling in love with AI!

Viewpoints_

Egypt’s education was once a right, now a ransom

Nawwara Negm_ 9-7-2025

Egypt’s education was once a right, now a ransom

Individualism and Violence| Digital alienation on ‘social’ platforms

Mohamed El-Agati_ 7-7-2025

Individualism and Violence| Digital alienation on ‘social’ platforms

The return of the baltagiya?

Thuggery in Egypt is neither new nor random — it’s a systematic, state-enabled tool of repression embedded in daily life, politics, and global security strategy.

Omnia Khalil_ 30-6-2025

The return of the baltagiya?

Science & Technology_

Digital blackout: How the Israeli attack triggered Iranian internet collapse

Mohammad El-Taher_ 25-6-2025

Digital blackout: How the Israeli attack triggered Iranian internet collapse

The economy of loneliness

Abdelrahman Ghareeb_ 22-6-2025

The economy of loneliness

Israel-Iran cyber warfare rewrites the rules of modern combat

A digital war unfolds as Israel and Iran clash across cyberspace, AI, and drones, reshaping modern conflict through metadata, misinformation, and algorithmic warfare.

Mohammad El-Taher_ 20-6-2025

Israel-Iran cyber warfare rewrites the rules of modern combat