Egyptian officials have sought to reassure Turkey after Cairo signed a partial maritime delimitation deal with Greece, saying they had respected Ankara’s national security concerns while preparing the agreement, a senior Turkish official said.

Military escalation appears inevitable in the eastern Mediterranean after Turkey announced new seismic research activity Aug. 10 in contested areas overlapping with a maritime zone that its arch foes Egypt and Greece agreed on last week.

Mahraganat, an electronic music of Sha’abi popular inspiration, has become one of Egypt’s most listened-to music. The Egyptian Musicians Syndicate banned Mahraganat artists from performing publicly because it considers their language offensive and vulgar and their songs unworthy of Egypt’s artistic productions. This paper examines the spread of Mahraganat as …

Middle Eastern regimes increasingly aren’t just targeting dissidents—they’re going after their entire families.

Turkey’s regional rivals are going beyond Libya as they respond to the scale-tipping Turkish military intervention in the North African country. Having declared a red line at Sirte and al-Jufra on the Libyan battlefield, Egypt and its partners are stepping up efforts to impede Turkey on the diplomatic front as …

In late June, the St. Regis Hotel, owned by the Qatari Diar Company, opened its doors on the Nile Corniche in Cairo to guests, 12 years after the Qatari company had acquired the land of the project.

On 20 July, Egypt’s parliament approved a military deployment to fight what it deemed “criminal militias” and “foreign terrorist groups” on a “western front”, showing its preparedness to usher in a new phase of Libya’s conflict.

One of the most notable differences between an authoritarian and totalitarian regime is that while the first seeks merely to nullify its enemies, the second seeks to nullify everything that functions autonomously of it – even if the thing in question poses very little immediate risk to the stability of …

The jailing of five Egyptian influencers on charges of “violating public morals” over videos they published on TikTok has set a new precedent for controls that women face online, as well as the social limits increasingly placed upon them.

The Egyptian army said in an official statement July 21 that it managed to thwart a terrorist attack on a military security post in the city of Bir al-Abed in the northern Sinai Peninsula.