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Interview| Journalists Syndicate Head Khaled Elbalshy: “Freedom is a bread-and-butter issue”

Dina Samak_ 11-11-2026

Interview| Journalists Syndicate Head Khaled Elbalshy: “Freedom is a bread-and-butter issue”

Extraordinary times: Lina Attalah’s first day in court

Gasser El-Dabea_ 5-11-2026

Extraordinary times: Lina Attalah’s first day in court

In Egypt, news websites wait years for licenses. Then come the prosecutions

Mona Mohamed_ 2-11-2026

In Egypt, news websites wait years for licenses. Then come the prosecutions

Alternative for Israel? Reading the narrow daylight in Israel’s next election

Polls show a tight deadlock between Netanyahu’s alliance and a disparate opposition, leaving Arab parties and Haredi conscription fights as potential coalition kingmakers.

Hussein Baoumi_ 27-10-2026

Alternative for Israel? Reading the narrow daylight in Israel’s next election

The seabed scramble: Can Haftar realign Libya through maritime leverage?

Samar El-Gamal_ 25-10-2026

The seabed scramble: Can Haftar realign Libya through maritime leverage?

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Three years on: Reflections from Hamas’ grassroots in Gaza on Al-Aqsa Flood

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Three years after 7 October, Hamas cadres in Gaza weigh the war’s staggering toll against their conviction, asking whether the fateful decision was worth the price.

Salem Elrayyes_ 19-10-2026

Three years on: Reflections from Hamas’ grassroots in Gaza on Al-Aqsa Flood

Explainer| How Ethiopia’s war became a regional crisis threatening the Horn of Africa

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Ethiopia’s internal war has escalated into a regional crisis, drawing in Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan over Red Sea security, Nile waters, and contested borders.

Mahmoud Atteya_ 15-10-2026

Explainer| How Ethiopia’s war became a regional crisis threatening the Horn of Africa

No ambassador in Tel Aviv, a thaw with Tehran: Cairo’s quiet recalibration

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From the chill with Israel to the Mecca pact it did not join, Egypt has hedged across rival camps. Sources describe a policy that is risk-averse and reluctant to take center stage.

Samar El-Gamal_ 12-10-2026

No ambassador in Tel Aviv, a thaw with Tehran: Cairo’s quiet recalibration

Not quite an alliance: Inside Egypt and Turkey’s new military ties

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From near-clashes in Libya to joint air drills and drone production, Egypt and Turkey are reshaping their decade-long rivalry into a flexible, pragmatic defense partnership.

Mahmoud Atteya_ 13-9-2026

Not quite an alliance: Inside Egypt and Turkey’s new military ties

Testing the R-4 in Istanbul: Egypt’s room to maneuver after the Mecca Pact

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Ahead of the Istanbul quadrilateral talks, Cairo’s absence from a major trilateral defense pact reveals deeper splits over how regional military power should be projected.

Samar El-Gamal_ 31-8-2026

Testing the R-4 in Istanbul: Egypt’s room to maneuver after the Mecca Pact

From Egyptian small farms to Israeli tables

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Behind frozen greens in Israeli markets lies a 650% surge in Egyptian exporters: a vast network stretching from hidden Delta hamlets to active shipping lanes.

Yousef Okail_ 27-8-2026

From Egyptian small farms to Israeli tables

Explainer| What changes for refugees as Egypt’s new asylum system takes effect

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Egypt now decides who qualifies as a refugee, a role the UN held for 70 years. Rights groups say the new rules leave gaps in protection from deportation.

Ahmed Dahaby_ 25-8-2026

Explainer| What changes for refugees as Egypt’s new asylum system takes effect

The Road to Wady El-Mullak: Eighteen children died in the dust. Then the politicians arrived

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Systemic neglect meets political theater in Wady El-Mullak, where roads are only paved and bridges built when officials arrive to mourn the 18 young workers they failed to protect

Yousef Okail_ 17-8-2026

The Road to Wady El-Mullak: Eighteen children died in the dust. Then the politicians arrived

The show must go on: Unpublished documents confirm ‘violations’ don’t block EU financing

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To keep migrants away from European shores, the EU is loosening its own human rights benchmarks and quietly rubber-stamping billions in concessional loans to Cairo.

Beesan Kassab_ 9-8-2026

The show must go on: Unpublished documents confirm ‘violations’ don’t block EU financing

The day after Damietta: Will Egypt be dragged into war?

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The question isn’t whether Egypt keeps an equal distance from every side in the region’s war. It’s which side it stands with, and in which trench it intends to fight.

Dina Samak_ 4-8-2026

The day after Damietta: Will Egypt be dragged into war?

What a $20,000 drone revealed about Egypt’s air defenses

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A drone strike on Damietta port tests Egypt’s air defenses. Experts say it’s no failure, but a warning about how cheap, low-flying drones are changing the threat.

Ahmed Albordeny_ 2-8-2026

What a $20,000 drone revealed about Egypt’s air defenses

The Taliban’s Brussels bargain: Trading normalization for deportation

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The Brussels visit reveals how deportation and border control have become leverage, allowing de facto authorities like the Taliban to trade cooperation for recognition.

Hussein Baoumi_ 30-7-2026

The Taliban’s Brussels bargain: Trading normalization for deportation

Right to arms: What tipped the scales for Khalil Al-Hayya?

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Al‑Hayya takes Hamas’s helm by a razor‑thin vote, inheriting a fractured movement, stalled ceasefire, and pressure over weapons, governance, and Gaza’s reconstruction.

Abdelmoneim Mahmoud_ 28-7-2026

Right to arms: What tipped the scales for Khalil Al-Hayya?

Outside prison, inside the sketch: A day Ashraf Omar escaped the ‘vicious cycle’

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Marking two years since cartoonist Ashraf Omar was blindfolded and taken from his home, colleagues and family gathered to confront an endless cycle of legal absurdity.

Ahmed Dahaby_ 23-7-2026

Outside prison, inside the sketch: A day Ashraf Omar escaped the ‘vicious cycle’

Interview| Iran’s envoy in Cairo: ‘Millions in the streets are stronger than any nuclear bomb’

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Iran’s late Supreme Leader built his doctrine on backing “the resistance” everywhere — his envoy in Cairo explains what that means for Lebanon and the Gulf.

Dina Samak_ 14-7-2026

Interview| Iran’s envoy in Cairo: ‘Millions in the streets are stronger than any nuclear bomb’

Three guides, no direction: Inside the Muslim Brotherhood’s terminal split

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The Brotherhood will stay divided across three rival camps for years — unless Cairo drops its 'Brotherhood bogeyman,' or the region shifts enough to bring the group back into play.

Abdelmoneim Mahmoud_ 13-7-2026

Three guides, no direction: Inside the Muslim Brotherhood’s terminal split

Interview| Khaled Ali taking stock of June 30: ‘The regime’s obsession isn’t the Brotherhood, It’s Mubarak’

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Thirteen years after June 30, leftist lawyer Khaled Ali revisits the ‘third current’ that rejected both Brotherhood and military rule, and warns Egypt is nearing a new explosion.

Mostafa Bassiouny_ 7-7-2026

Interview| Khaled Ali taking stock of June 30: ‘The regime’s obsession isn’t the Brotherhood, It’s Mubarak’

Inside the quiet revolt at Egypt’s Judges’ Club

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Egypt’s Judges’ Club just elected a president who ran against the government’s favored candidate, and judges say the vote was a message years in the making.

Mohamed Napolion_ 5-7-2026

Inside the quiet revolt at Egypt’s Judges’ Club

Interview| Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour: June 30 won against political Islam, then lost politics

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Thirteen years on, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, a senior National Salvation Front figure reflects on Morsi’s removal, Rabaa’s bloodshed, and all what happened after

Dina Samak_ 1-7-2026

Interview| Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour: June 30 won against political Islam, then lost politics

From Gandhi to Modi: How India abandoned Palestine

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India’s shift from staunch Palestinian ally to Israeli partner didn’t happen overnight. It took an ideology, a digital army, and the systematic reshaping of a nation’s conscience.

Tamer Alhelaly_ 23-6-2026

From Gandhi to Modi: How India abandoned Palestine

Remembering Nabil El-Hilali.. The reluctant hero of the Egyptian left

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Twenty years on, much has changed, but it’s clear El-Hilali lived and died on his own terms, true to the choices he made, simply as “Comrade Ahmed.”

Mostafa Bassiouny_ 21-6-2026

Remembering Nabil El-Hilali.. The reluctant hero of the Egyptian left

The Civil Democratic Movement: Egypt’s opposition coalition faces its reckoning

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The Kortam ‘statement’ crisis lays bare deep structural atrophy and years of political containment, leaving Egypt’s Civil Democratic Movement at a terminal crossroads.

Gasser El-Dabea_ 15-6-2026

The Civil Democratic Movement: Egypt’s opposition coalition faces its reckoning

Nick Oberheiden: Trump’s handler gets US embassy in Cairo

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No diplomatic experience, no foreign affairs background, and no public record before arriving in America. What he has, however, is Trump’s ear. Now he represents the US in Egypt.

Ahmed Dahaby_ 14-6-2026

Nick Oberheiden: Trump’s handler gets US embassy in Cairo

Point, kill, and cash in: Trump’s men bet on their own crimes

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Trump’s men had the bets placed before the bombs dropped. Coincidence? The pattern suggests otherwise.

Mostafa Hisham_ 9-6-2026

Point, kill, and cash in: Trump’s men bet on their own crimes