The Turkish lira is rebounding after Qatar pledged US$15 billion in investments to help Turkey’s economy The currency strengthened some 3 percent against the dollar on Aug. 16, trading at around 5.75 per dollar, hours [ More … ]
“In summer 2011, I played my last intramural football game as a senior at Ohio State University. Two short years later, I found myself running, not from would-be tacklers, but for my life, from an [ More … ]
The Saudi -led coalition has been criticised repeatedly for targeting civilian areas in their attacks in Yemen, but the images of children covered in blood still appear to have shocked the world. The Saudi -led [ More … ]
How Water Scarcity and Middle Eastern Influence Are Reshaping Northeast Africa – a Foreign Affairs report In Ethiopia, Africa’s largest-ever dam and hydroelectric power plant is inching closer to completion. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [ More … ]
The Trump administration’s recent decision to release $195 million in military aid to Egypt has left rights experts stunned and deeply worried, says an NPR report. A year ago, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suspended [ More … ]
Israelis and Palestinians in ‘advanced stages’ of indirect negotiations to defuse tension Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed one Palestinian and wounded eight on Wednesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry in the besieged enclave said. The [ More … ]
By: Abdel-Hafez Al-Sawi* Subsidy in Egypt, a thorny issue, is usually addressed in light of government decisions to reduce it, which accordingly leads to raising the prices of goods and services. But subsidy is not [ More … ]
Hamas has been holding talks over proposal for national reconciliation and cease-fire with Israel Palestinian resistance group Hamas has some notes on a proposed Egyptian paper for inter-Palestinian reconciliation, a senior group leader said Wednesday. [ More … ]
‘Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States,’ US president says Companies doing business with Iran will be barred from the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, [ More … ]
Canadian officials say Justin Trudeau’s government is reaching out to the UAE and UK to defuse tensions, according to Reuters Canada plans to seek help from the United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom to defuse [ More … ]
On July 1, 2012, when the Egyptian military junta – theoretically – handed over power to the elected authority, the foreign reserves then was only $ 15.5 billion against $ 36 billion early 2011 when [ More … ]
The threatening language of the United States will not benefit anyone, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as relations between the NATO allies soured over the case of a U.S. pastor jailed in Turkey [ More … ]
Egyptians renewed online criticism of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday, hours after he said he was “saddened” by a similar campaign a few weeks ago, reports Reuters. The Twitter hashtag “Leave, Sisi” was the [ More … ]
How the Obama administration watched the demise of Arab democracy — and paved the way for Trump’s embrace of dictators. President Trump boasts that he has reversed American policies across the Middle East. Where his [ More … ]
Losing Egypt to Russia Isn’t the Real Problem—but Collapse Is. Cairo is no long a prize to be won, but a weak state in need of reform, says a report by The National Interest While most [ More … ]
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