The latest signing of a tripartite cooperation program deal between Egypt, Greece and Cyprus will strengthen military coordination between the three states and allow them to act together in the face of threats in the Eastern Mediterranean, military and political analysts in Cairo said.

During his successful election campaign, Biden famously pledged that under his presidency there would be “no more blank checks” for Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed “favourite dictator”.

A number of Egyptian exiles have raised concerns that the recent rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt could impact their journalism work, specifically their freedom to express critical opinions of the Egyptian government.

On April 22, 2019, Abir al-Safty, a 24-year-old political activist and journalist, was arrested for the second time in less than three years. ٍShe was arrested amid the vote for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to remain in office until 2030.

The Egyptian government plans to implement a megaproject to cultivate over 1 million feddans (one feddan equals 4,200 square meters), in a move aimed to boost food security in the Arab world’s most populous country.

In the early hours on the morning of March 27, a building consisting of a basement, a ground floor and nine floors collapsed in al-Salam neighborhood in the Gesr al-Suez district east of Cairo, killing 24 people and wounding 25 others, with many still missing.

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is how unwelcoming and inhospitable those fields have historically been to women. From a lack of representation to a well documented gender pay gap, all the way to exclusionary, poorly designed and downright offensive …

Turkey may be seeking a way to ease its economic turmoil by wooing Egypt for more business and bilateral trade. Egyptian economists and Turkish affairs experts say Ankara’s recent efforts to reset relations are meant to help counterbalance its isolation from the European Union and a number of Arab countries.

The gender gap in the Middle East and North Africa is the world’s largest and will take more than a century to close, the World Economic Forum said this week.

Egyptian activists residing in the United States have expressed alarm after the country’s embassy in Washington DC requested the diaspora register their personal details on a non-secure website.