Escaping from hell: 17 Egyptians drown attempting to reach Europe
The sea has swallowed up at least 17 Egyptian youths whose boat sank in the waters of the sea after they decided to escape from the hell of their homeland in search of a better life and the hope of…
The army’s business is destroying the cement industry in Egypt
Solomon Baumgartner Aviles, CEO of Lafarge Egypt for cement, said that it is expected that five or six of the sector’s companies will drop out by next year. He attributed this to the decreased demand and the overflow of supply…
Mission Impossible: Foreign media in Egypt live hard times
The Egyptian authorities take a clearly hostile stance against newspapers, foreign channels, and foreign correspondents, who face all forms of harassment, from cancelling work permits to deportation outside the country or imprisonment for fabricated cases.During the past years and since…
Internet slows in Egypt amid protests against al-Sisi
Egyptians complained of a slow internet connection late on Sunday night, in conjunction with the outbreak of demonstrations and limited protests against General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, calling for his departure. Activists circulated confirmations of a decline in the speed of…
Amnesty International calls on Egypt to release detainees of September 2019 uprising
Amnesty International has called on Egypt to release the people detained in the September 20 demonstrations of last year, estimated then to be 4,000 people. Only little more than half of them have been released so far. In a tweet…
The Egyptian pyramids are under threat from unplanned governmental projects
The Egyptian regime, the only remaining wonder among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is forging two expressways across the pyramids plateau to revive and expand a project that has been pending since the 1990s due to international outrage….
Al-Sisi’s pharmacies face a hushed crisis of absence of liquidity
A silent crisis is being experienced by a chain of pharmacies (19011) owned by Egyptian intelligence. This crisis resulted from the lack of liquidity, which led to delayed salaries, a shortage of some critical items within the branches, and the…
Egypt starts vaccine trials amid suspicious Emirati-Israeli collaboration
Last Sunday, and with a very weak turnout, Egypt started clinical trials on the Chinese vaccine for the coronavirus. The trials coincided with the UAE’s announcement that it has authorised the emergency use of the vaccine for the most pandemic-exposed…
The regime is using cinema as a propaganda tool against dissidence
The makers of Sahib Al Maqam did not expect their film to be attacked so extensively. Instead of the audience celebrating the film, the work was subjected to a violent religious, intellectual and artistic attack. The film deals with the…
Armed robbery: How have the Egyptian authorities turned into bandits?
At the hands of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime, the Egyptian state resorted to another kind of interaction between a state and its citizens. According to the normal practice since the emergence of the modern nation state, political regimes are to…
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