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.

Dar Al Iftaa has issued a fatwa forbidding so-called tahleel marriages, or short-term, intermediate marriages in which a man marries a divorced woman for the sole purpose of making it religiously permissible for her to remarry her first husband.

Egyptian security forces have arrested an Egyptian media professor, Ayman Mansour Nada, who criticised media figures close to the regime.

An investigation into the slaying of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni in Egypt will see Italian lawmakers visit the UK and meet with figures from the University of Cambridge.

The judicial authorities in Egypt yesterday lifted conditional release measures in place against Professor Hazem Hosny since February. The Cairo prosecutor reduced the measures imposed on the professor of political science at Cairo University in June under a conditional release order lasting four months, wherein he was basically under house …

The trial of Patrick George Zaki, a researcher and human rights advocate detained since early last year, has begun in Egypt.

In a move that sparked controversy, Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta announced in an Aug. 17 statement its creation of a TikTok account with the aim of rolling out fatwas to a bigger audience.

Unvaccinated people will not be allowed entry into Egypt’s educational instructions, the country’s Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, revealed yesterday.

The deadly heat waves, fires, hurricanes and other extreme weather events that have dominated headlines in recent years will only become more frequent in the coming decades, according to a United Nations report on climate change released last week.

Head of the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) Mohamed El Qousi said a new satellite of type Cube-Sat will be launched as part of a training program to manufacture “universities’ satellites” by EgSA in the second half of 2022 after agreement with a Japanese side.