A prominent Italian journalist and historian has returned his Legion of Honor to the French Embassy to protest the awarding of the prize to Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Popular Italian journalist Corrado Augias has announced [ More … ]
Study by Geneva-based Committee for Justice finds more than 1,000 victims in Sisi’s detention centers since 2013 The number of people dying in Egyptian detention centers rose by a further 100 in 2020, taking the [ More … ]
Al-Sisi who claims that he meets people in the streets without his guards, and that the army is fully united, is addressing the Military Academy cadets from behind a bulletproof glass barrier. According to Presidential [ More … ]
Under the agreement, Morocco will establish full diplomatic relations and resume official contacts with Israel. Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalise relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States, [ More … ]
Paris conferred the Legion d’Honneur on Egyptian ruler as an apparent thank you for being a loyal customer of France’s arms industry, reports Borzou Daragahi France’s President Emmanuel Macron gifted Egypt’s authoritarian ruler Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [ More … ]
Italian prosecutors said on Thursday they had wrapped up their investigation into the disappearance and murder of student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016, and named four senior members of Egypt’s security forces as possible [ More … ]
Biden should start with Egypt’s dictator if he is serious in his statements: NYT Biden should start with Egypt’s dictator if he is serious in his statements: NYT [ More … ]
According to media reports, Abdelwahab’s “When We’re Born” musical drama has been nominated to represent Egypt in the Oscar competition, category of best foreign language foreign films. The film was chosen by a committee formed [ More … ]
No women won seats; many new faces; voter turnout of 60% higher than expected The election for Kuwait’s National Assembly (parliament) resulted in an all-male parliament and several previous MP losing their seats, signalling a [ More … ]
A resolution of the Gulf diplomatic crisis is in sight, with all nations involved “on board” and final agreement expected soon, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud has said. Until recently the three-year [ More … ]
Egypt’s Juhayna Food Industries board has appointed Seif El Din Thabet as acting chairman, the company said in a statement a day after its chairman was arrested. The company, Egypt’s largest dairy products and juices [ More … ]
Prominent American actress urges Egyptian authorities to release activists from the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EiPR) in a video posted on the group’s YouTube channel Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has called on Egyptian authorities to free [ More … ]
Sudan has apparently told the US that it will not normalize relations with Israel until Washington removes the African country from the list of states which “sponsor” terrorism, the New York Times has reported. The [ More … ]
A former deputy head of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate has recently said the number of the coronavirus infections and deaths in Egypt is terrifying On her Facebook account, Dr. Mona Mina, the former deputy head [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia is reportedly searching for a resolution to the three-year long Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] crisis as a way to enhance relations with the incoming Biden presidency, according to a report published in the Financial Times. [ More … ]
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