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Viewpoints_ My crime: Managing a media website!

Nora Younis_ 24-6-2025

My crime: Managing a media website!
Politics_

A price tag on Justice: Egypt's lawyers battle new court fees

Lawyers warn that rising court fees threaten Egyptians’ right to justice—and their own livelihoods—as access to litigation looks to become increasingly unaffordable.

Mohamed El Kholy_ 23-6-2025

A price tag on Justice: Egypt's lawyers battle new court fees
Politics_

Nasser after the Naksa: ‘It was the system’s fault’

After the 1967 defeat, Nasser condemned his own regime as rotten and called for an open system—but his bold vision gave way to retreat, not reform.

Yousef Okail_ 21-6-2025

Nasser after the Naksa: ‘It was the system’s fault’

Politics_ Parliament Diaries| Between war and debt, a national budget of uncertainty

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 23-6-2025

Parliament Diaries| Between war and debt, a national budget of uncertainty

News_

Following Israel-Iran ceasefire, the winner takes it all

Following Israel-Iran ceasefire, the winner takes it all

Egypt revokes industrial electricity discount

Egypt revokes industrial electricity discount

More embassies buy in to the New Capital

More embassies buy in to the New Capital

Egypt to privatize 40+ hospitals

Egypt to privatize 40+ hospitals

Politics_

Parliament Diaries| Everyone loses as rent law passes unchanged

Caught between landlords demanding swift contract termination and tenants fearing eviction, Parliament passes a rent law that satisfies neither and deepens the divide.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 19-6-2025

Parliament Diaries| Everyone loses as rent law passes unchanged

Redrawing the lines: How the Iran-Israel war is reshaping regional power

Mohamed Khayyal_ 18-6-2025

Redrawing the lines: How the Iran-Israel war is reshaping regional power

Sovereignty or submission: Can the Middle East resist Israel’s new order?

Mohamed Saad Abdel Hafeez_ 16-6-2025

Sovereignty or submission: Can the Middle East resist Israel’s new order?

Urban & Economy_

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

Sayyida Aisha Bridge: The curse of asphalt in the sky

Ezzat Elkamhawi_ 27-5-2025

Sayyida Aisha Bridge: The curse of asphalt in the sky

Society_

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students

Hundreds of Syrian students are locked out of Egypt mid-degree as visa delays and new entry rules derail academic dreams and drain families of tuition and housing costs.

Sara El-Hareth_ 5-6-2025

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students

Applied Technology Schools: New path to unemployment

Doaa Emam_ 2-6-2025

Applied Technology Schools: New path to unemployment

Freelance journalists: professionals or impostors?

Yousef Okail_ 1-6-2025

Freelance journalists: professionals or impostors?

Culture_

Jacques Hassoun: Jew of the Nile

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!

Giants or genius? The secret behind the pyramids

No giants, no magic—just ingenuity, ramps, and relentless labor. Experts cut through the myths to reveal how ancient Egyptians really built the pyramids.

Abdel Halim Hefaina_ 7-6-2025

Giants or genius? The secret behind the pyramids

Viewpoints_

No happy ending after US strike on Iran

Khaled Dawoud_ 23-6-2025

No happy ending after US strike on Iran

Individualism and violence| Discrimination etched in childhood

Class divides, once bridged by education, are now entrenched by multi-tiered systems and fragmented media. This fuels individualism, isolation, and deep-seated inequality.

Mohamed El-Agati_ 15-6-2025

Individualism and violence| Discrimination etched in childhood

New Nationality: Citizen of the Compound

Khaled Dawoud_ 12-6-2025

New Nationality: Citizen of the Compound

Science & Technology_

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

Beyond oil: Abu Dhabi's 5GW US-Israel AI gambit

Mohammad El-Taher_ 31-5-2025

Beyond oil: Abu Dhabi's 5GW US-Israel AI gambit