An Italian judge has asked the country’s government to intervene in the trial of four Egyptian security officers accused in the kidnapping and murder of PhD student Giulio Regeni in 2016, the Italian ANSA news agency reported.

Researchers and academics in Egypt risk being arrested, prosecuted, or placed in arbitrary pretrial detention, a report by the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has warned.

An Italian parliamentary panel has accused the Egyptian security apparatus of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a student, Giulio Regeni, in Cairo in 2016.

The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar announced on Monday that all university students will be required to be vaccinated in order to attend exams at the end of the current academic year’s first semester.

Controversial Egyptian mass communications professor Ayman Mansour Nada was released this week from custody without bail, his lawyer told The New Arab on Thursday.

Several professors have criticised Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, which is set to open in December having been delayed from its initial launch date which was to coincide with the June 30 protests.

One week into the United Nations climate change conference taking place in Glasgow, global environmental issues have come to the fore.

The Arabic hashtag “Arrest_Mabrouk_Attia” trended in Egypt over the past few days, as social media users demanded the arrest of the Islamic preacher after he justified violence against women.

Reda Hassanein is counting his losses after a disappointing harvest season. The Egyptian farmer only collected six tonnes of olives from his 60-acre farm, located in a desert area between Egypt’s capital Cairo and the northeastern province of Ismailiya – a fraction of what he collected last year.

On August 23, 2021, President Sisi, during a television appearance, called for a “re-formulation of understanding religious dogma,” arguing that the current belief system is inherited without proper understanding or critical thinking.