Safwat al-Sharif: The death of a tyrant
“There is nothing left for the late but his good biography.” Thus, the famous proverb says, which was entirely contradicted by Safwat al-Sharif, the man of Hosni Mubarak’s regime, whose death revealed the details of a long biography marked by…
Student union elections: Security bodies dominate the universities
University student union elections were concluded with a sweeping winning of the state-sponsored election list Students for Egypt, which won 416 seats out of 432, with a total percentage of 96.2 per cent. This sweeping victory was achieved in most…
The cost of the express train in Egypt rose by $19 billion in four months
In just four months, the cost of building an express electric train in Egypt increased from $3 billion to $9 billion and then finally to $23 billion. Thus, the sequence of events for the train on which the signing of…
Public theft: The Egyptian regime plunders the property of Muslim Brotherhood members
In a new step of al-Sisi’s regime to conclude the file of Muslim Brothers’ money as soon as possible, the Interim Relief Court in Egypt ruled, on Sunday, the confiscation of properties of 89 members and leaders of the Muslim…
On the 10th anniversary of January Revolution Egypt is suffering a new journey in repression
On the 10th anniversary of the popular revolution, Egyptians are living at an unprecedented level of repression since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power through a military coup against the late Mohamed Morsi. After 10 years of the 25 January…
The NFP maintains its control over parliament
The regime-backed Nation’s Future Party (NFP) dominated the majority of the House of Representatives committees during the internal elections, which reflects the sweeping victory of its candidates in the recent parliamentary elections. The NFP grabbed the presidency of 18 committees…
Egypt: An expected rise in prices, increase in inflation and unemployment
Egyptians are awaiting a new wave of price hikes, with the decision to ban importing any foodstuffs without the approval of the Food Safety Authority set to take effect within days. According to officials in the Cairo Chamber of Commerce,…
GERD negotiations: The failure reflects the impotence of al-Sisi’s Egypt
The Egyptian foreign ministry announced the failure of the ministerial meeting between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia regarding the resumption of negotiations over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, after Sudan assigned the task of suggesting resolutions of points of conflict to…
The escalating suffering of peasants and workers in Egypt is alarming
Over the past few weeks, in the Egyptian agricultural provinces, peasants threw the surplus potato harvest into canals and fed their cattle with it. Those scenes resulted from the sharp decrease in the price of potatoes from EGP 2,000 a…
Hanafy Gebaly rewarded with the presidency of parliament for conceding Tiran and Sanafir
Chancellor Hanafy Gebaly was elected, on Tuesday, as the speaker of the House of Representatives, the lower house of the Egyptian parliament, winning 508 votes out of 576. The election of Gebaly came after he was nominated for the position…
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