Cairo International Book Fair: Recurrent book bans
On Sunday, Egyptian security authorities demanded the publishing director of Dar Al-Muntada, Sayed Saber, to stop printing, selling and distributing a book on the history of the Zionist movement at the Cairo International Book Fair. According to Saber, the authorities…
Enterprise: Analysts expect the Central Bank of Egypt to raise interest rates
On Sunday, the Egyptian business newsletter, Enterprise published the results of a survey of economists on the economic, financial and monetary situation in Egypt. Analysts expected the Central Bank of Egypt to raise interest rates at its next meeting on…
The Economist: To save Egypt’s economy, get the army out of it
On Thursday, The Economist published a report on the economic situation in Egypt and pointed to the deep crisis in the country. “To the list of spectacular ruins across Egypt, you can now add its economy. The Egyptian pound lost…
CBE offers three-year treasury bills with 17.25% interest
On Wednesday, the Central Bank of Egypt said it had offered three-year treasury bonds with a variable interest rate linked to the bank’s deposit, lending, and credit rates currently stand at 16.25%, 17.25%, and 16.75%, respectively. According to experts, the…
Blinken says the meeting with Sisi touched on human rights
On Monday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi touched on human rights issues, the strategic partnership between the US and Egypt, and the latter’s important role in regional stability. Blinken…
Despite financial crisis: Egyptian government intensifies work on Cairo Monorail
The Egyptian Minister of Transport, Kamel Al-Wazir, has said that the government is intensifying its work on the Cairo Monorail, which aims to link Greater Cairo with new cities. Although the country is facing a severe economic crisis, the government…
12 years after the January Revolution: Military dictatorship chases the legacy of the democratic revolution
On this day 12 years ago, ordinary youth demonstrations began, chanting “Freedom”, which soon developed into a more complex and comprehensive chant expressing the masses of the Egyptian people, “Bread, freedom, social justice”, and in more expanded versions, it was…
Hashem Farghali: Labor leader’s arrest on the Revolution anniversary tells where we arrived
In June 2005, the first screening of the movie Sayed Al-Atefy (The Emotional Sayed) by the famous screenwriter Bilal Fadl took place. In the scene of the development of events in the film, a young man who suffers from the…
Egyptian Working Group on Human Rights: The situation in Egypt witnessed no tangible improvements
The Egyptian Working Group for Human Rights has said that the human rights situation in Egypt has not witnessed tangible improvements. On the contrary, it added, human rights violations are systematically escalating. The group was formed in 2018 by local…
In Egypt: Six persons sentenced to death for unknown terrorist acts!
An Egyptian court has issued death sentences against six people and punished another with life imprisonment. The prosecution accused them of financing and joining a terrorist group, disturbing public order and endangering society’s safety, interests and security, obstructing the provisions…
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