Sisi’s visit to Baghdad: What does Egypt want from the “new Levant” alliance?
The visit of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Iraq, two days ago, reflected Cairo’s interest in the “New Levant Project”, which it is launching in cooperation with Baghdad and Amman that aims to create an economic/political alliance to confront…
A cell for every citizen: 8 new prisons built in Egypt
The Egyptian Minister of Interior, Major General Mahmoud Tawfiq, has issued a decision to build eight new central prisons, bringing the number of prisons established since 2013 to about 40, which reflects the significant increase in the number of prisoners…
The impossible rapprochement between Cairo and Ankara
Recently, Turkey made a new step towards Egypt when it totally suspended the activities of opponent Egyptian media figures in Turkey. The new decision is not confined to TV work but extended to social media campaigning against Sisi’s regime. Cairo…
Liquidation of EG-GATE reveals corruption of Tahya Masr Fund
In a small box, not larger than 20 cm2, in one the Egyptian newspapers, the legal liquidator Abany Partners notifies clients that EG-GATE is under liquidation. The liquidator demands all clients of the Egyptian company to communicate with him within…
Ramy Shaath: Two years in prison for ‘disturbing relations with Israel’
Ramy Shaath, the Egyptian-Palestinian activist and coordinator of the BDS movement in Egypt, is close to completing his second year in detention in Egyptian prisons without trial. His official charge is “participating in a terrorist group in achieving its goals…
Egyptian law to dismiss drug abusers from public services raises concerns over corrupt implementation
A few days ago, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi ratified Law No. 73 of 2021, regarding some conditions for holding or continuing jobs, which determines the penalty for dismissal from employment for employees who are proven to have used drugs. The government…
Abbas Kamel: Sisi’s trusted man has limited efficiency
From Khartoum to Juba and from Tel Aviv to Gaza, General Abbas Kamel, Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate GID, moves tirelessly holding Egypt’s foreign policy in his tight grip. But, remembering prominent Egyptian Intelligence heads from Salah Nasr to Omar Suleiman,…
GERD crisis: Arabs own cards on Ethiopia, but not for use
Arab League foreign ministers met, on Tuesday, in Doha in response to a joint Egyptian Sudanese call for discussing the conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and its effect on the Nile’s water flow to Sudan and Egypt. A…
Unprecedent final death sentences issued for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members in Egypt
Egypt’s Court of Cassation handed down, on Tuesday, the death sentence for 12 defendants and members of the Muslim Brotherhood in the case known in media as the Rabaa sit-in dispersal. The court’s rule is the first final death sentence…
The special forces of Egypt’s army: Modest performance despite development attempts
Over the tenures of ex-presidents Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat (1970-1981) and Mohamed Hosni Mubarak (1981-2011), the special forces department of the Egyptian army was neglected after repeated operational failures. This persisted until 2012, when Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi assumed the ministry of…
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