Year: 2021

Academic Freedom in Egypt goes on deterioration

Walid Salem put his passport and plane ticket to Seattle in his bag, but he had a deep feeling that the authorities would prevent him from traveling from Cairo because of his academic research. His hunch turned out to be…

555 Egyptian doctors are victims of COVID19 but no compensations

“Our martyrs have gardens, and their martyrs have salary increases, exceptional pensions, bonuses, apartments, pilgrimages, and jobs for their families.” A doctor depicted By these words the Egyptian regime’s discrimination between compensation for doctors’ victims as a result of Corona…

Reframing Egyptian-American relations: Checks are the password

During the 2019 US election campaign, presidential candidate Joe Biden was blunt when he said there were no more “coddling for dictators at the expense of American national security and their interests.” Then it became even franker when Abdel Fattah…

Al-Sisi’s “Second Republic”: A military state

Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi insists that his project represents “the declaration of a new republic.” Skeptics consider it an “egoistic” project a country with more pressing priorities cannot afford. With this contradiction, the new administrative capital project can be described, which…

Water resources deficit in Egypt amounts to 56 billion cubic metres annually

The Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, revealed that his country’s water resources deficit is estimated at 56 billion cubic metres annually. In a meeting with several conservative representatives and members of parliament, he said that the total…

Egypt’s ex-FM: A clash with Ethiopia is inevitable

The former Egyptian Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmy, described the clash between his country and Ethiopia, against the background of the crisis of the Renaissance Dam, which the latter is building on the Blue Nile, as inevitable. In statements on TV,…

Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali calls for Nile Revolution on 10 July

Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali has called for Egyptians to go down onto the streets and protest on 10 July against Egypt’s failure to stand up to Ethiopia amid the ongoing GERD negotiations. Egypt has been locked into talks for several…

MP Diaa Dawood accuses UAE of betraying Egypt in GERD crisis

The plenary session of the Egyptian House of Representatives witnessed a verbal altercation regarding the role of the UAE in financing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which is disputed with Ethiopia. During the session, Member of Parliament Diaa El-Din…

Dissident media personality Moataz Matar announces he is leaving Al-Sharq TV

Opposition journalist Moataz Matar announced the end of his relationship with Al-Sharq TV, which opposes Sisi’s regime and broadcasts from Turkey. The resignation comes after the end of what he said was open leave from the channel which started about…

Egypt searches for solutions to the water shortage crisis

The most pessimistic Egyptians did not imagine that the day would come when they would plan to drink seawater or treated wastewater. For a long time, the Egyptians boasted of having the longest waterway globally; the country that the world…