Calls have escalated for the dismissal of the Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel Ghaffar over his comments over in-person exams despite Covid-19, which angered students and their families. The hashtag #Dismiss_HigherEducation_Minister has recently gone [ More … ]
The United Nations will convene a meeting of parties in the Cyprus dispute in Geneva in late April, the first such meeting since 2017 when talks about the divided island collapsed in disarray, according to [ More … ]
Jordan is ready to play part in relaunching peace negotiations with Palestinian leadership, monarch says Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned that continued unilateral actions will kill any chance for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, [ More … ]
President Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud on Wednesday, ahead of the scheduled release of a US intelligence report detailing the disappearance and murder of prominent journalist Jamal [ More … ]
The health sector in Egypt is facing multiple ongoing crises due to a sharp decline in the number of doctors, local and international media have reported. Financial problems have been cited as a reason for [ More … ]
With elections looming in both states, and hardliners out to ensure the collapse of the 2015 deal, time is running short for the US president to save it, states a report by the Guardian. For [ More … ]
Israeli woman freed by Syria while Israel returned two shepherds to the Syria-controlled side of the Golan Heights. Syria released an Israeli woman after Israel returned two shepherds to the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan [ More … ]
A recent op-ed of The Washington Post criticizes the US State Department’s approval of a $197 million sale of naval surface-to-air missiles to the Sisi regime, while ignoring Cairo’s human rights bad record. Since taking [ More … ]
US State Department says Washington is open to a possible meeting to ‘discuss a diplomatic way forward’ about Iran’s nuclear program The United States has said it would accept a European invitation to engage in [ More … ]
On February 5, the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL)-facilitated Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) selected a new interim Libyan executive authority. This has created significant momentum. At the same time, the situation is fragile, and [ More … ]
Egyptian security forces raided the homes of six relatives of an outspoken Egyptian American activist, arresting and imprisoning two cousins in defiance of calls by the Biden administration for the Egyptian government to improve its [ More … ]
A decade ago, crowds massed in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Egypt’s American-backed strongman, President Hosni Mubarak. In Washington, President Barack Obama made a fateful decision, calling on him to leave power. [ More … ]
Promise of the revolution has given way to stifled dissent, reduced foreign investment and a decline in regional influence Ten years ago today, Egyptians fired the imagination of the world when they toppled Hosni Mubarak. [ More … ]
The annual bulletin on individuals’ savings in different saving schemes, issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) for FY2018/2019 indicated a decline in individuals’ savings by about 843.3 billion Egyptian pounds, [ More … ]
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