The Egyptian parliament recently commended the Ministry of Education on approving a new school subject: common values. The course examines religious values and verses that have the same meaning in the three Abrahamic religions — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — in a move that will allow Egyptian students to study verses from the Jewish religion for the …
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‘Unjust, regressive and demeaning’: New draft law deems Egyptian women legally incapacitated
An Egyptian woman is a legally incapacitated person who has no right to travel outside the country or manage her own children’s basic affairs without a man’s prior consent, according to a new personal status draft law that recently caused uproar across Egypt.
Read More »UN notes readiness for involvement in Ethiopian dam talks
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed the organisation’s readiness to play a role in the ongoing negotiations over the controversial giant Ethiopian dam.
Read More »Egypt’s Sisi and Sudan’s Burhan agree to seek international quartet over GERD dilemma
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the President of the Sudanese Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Saturday discussed the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) and the border crisis between Sudan and Ethiopia, in addition to matters of bilateral cooperation.
Read More »Amnesty slams Egypt’s ‘forced disappearance’ of family with toddler
Amnesty International on Thursday demanded that Egyptian authorities conduct “prompt, effective and independent investigations” into the forced disappearance of a couple and their infant child.
Read More »‘Sisi regime informants are on Clubhouse’, warns analyst
The audio-chat app Clubhouse has reportedly drawn the ire of pro-government figures in Egypt, and an analyst has taken to Twitter to warn Egyptians to remain vigilant in the conversations they are having.
Read More »Egypt: An opposition in exile whose loved ones pay the price
Aly Hussin Mahdy ignored his father’s text messages for quite some time. As a politically outspoken Egyptian asylum seeker living in Chicago, he was concerned about leaving an electronic trail that the feared intelligence services back home could read.
Read More »Qatar seeks to restore warm relations with Egypt: minister
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman said that his country seeks to restore relations with Egypt to their “natural warmth” and “normal state”.
Read More »Sisi’s debt fuelled policies could drive Egypt off a cliff
In March 2015, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told an international investment conference that Egypt needed $200-300bn to “develop”. At the time, it seemed to be extreme hyperbole, considering that the size of the Egyptian economy in 2015 was $332bn.
Read More »Egypt: Sharp criticism over law change limiting women’s rights
About 50 women’s organisations in Egypt have published a statement laying out basic principles regarding women’s legal rights amid growing controversy over a proposed bill to amend the country’s personal status law.
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