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…
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…
Disputes and controversy in parliament over Sovereign Sukuk Law
There have been disputes between the deputies rejecting and others supporting the Sovereign Sukuk Bill in the parliament’s plenary session. The Egyptian government hastily prepared the law project to quickly enter the Islamic finance world, as the regime needs funds….
Muhammad Al-Baqer: The justice knight approaching two years in detention
“He left his father in intensive care to attend the interrogation of activist Alaa Abdelfattah, only to be arrested and then included in the same case.” Neama Hisham, wife of the detained Egyptian lawyer, Mohamed Al-Baqer, said these words while…
Sisi consolidates control over the Egyptian judiciary
The recent decisions issued by the Supreme Council of Judicial Bodies and authorities in Egypt, headed by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, represent a qualitative leap in the history of judicial work in the country. For the first time, all judges’ affairs,…
Washington plans to engage in dialogue with Cairo on human rights
Washington says it plans to engage in a “constructive” human rights dialogue with Egypt as rights groups and activists continue to draw attention to Egypt’s human rights abuses. This latest call came after a recent report by Washington-based rights group…
Could Qatar’s mediation solve the GERD’s crisis?
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis has been exacerbated by Ethiopia’s rejection of all Egyptian proposals to reach an agreement to settle the crisis. Faced with this crisis, Qatar found itself in front of a mission through which it…
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