Mission Impossible: Foreign media in Egypt live hard times
The Egyptian authorities take a clearly hostile stance against newspapers, foreign channels, and foreign correspondents, who face all forms of harassment, from cancelling work permits to deportation outside the country or imprisonment for fabricated cases.During the past years and since…
The Egyptian pyramids are under threat from unplanned governmental projects
The Egyptian regime, the only remaining wonder among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is forging two expressways across the pyramids plateau to revive and expand a project that has been pending since the 1990s due to international outrage….
Al-Sisi’s pharmacies face a hushed crisis of absence of liquidity
A silent crisis is being experienced by a chain of pharmacies (19011) owned by Egyptian intelligence. This crisis resulted from the lack of liquidity, which led to delayed salaries, a shortage of some critical items within the branches, and the…
Egypt starts vaccine trials amid suspicious Emirati-Israeli collaboration
Last Sunday, and with a very weak turnout, Egypt started clinical trials on the Chinese vaccine for the coronavirus. The trials coincided with the UAE’s announcement that it has authorised the emergency use of the vaccine for the most pandemic-exposed…
The regime is using cinema as a propaganda tool against dissidence
The makers of Sahib Al Maqam did not expect their film to be attacked so extensively. Instead of the audience celebrating the film, the work was subjected to a violent religious, intellectual and artistic attack. The film deals with the…
Armed robbery: How have the Egyptian authorities turned into bandits?
At the hands of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime, the Egyptian state resorted to another kind of interaction between a state and its citizens. According to the normal practice since the emergence of the modern nation state, political regimes are to…
Berenice military base: Al-Sisi suffocates Gaza
Since the Egyptian army announced the opening of the Berenice military base last January, in the presence of General al-Sisi and Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of the United Arab Emirates, doubts have been raised about this base regarding its…
Despite the commodities exchange, why is the government failing to control prices?
Amidst the Egyptian citizen’s affliction and suffering with the rise of commodity prices and the inability of most citizens to meet their basic needs, the government’s announcement of establishing a commodity exchange raised more concerns regarding the consumers’ negative impact….
After the Vodafone-STC deal failed Egypt-Saudi conflicts return
Cairo is still interested in completing the exit deal from Vodafone Egypt, despite announcing the end of the term of the memorandum of understanding with the Saudi Telecom company, without reaching an agreement, according to Egyptian official statements. Economists are…
El-Alamein: The latest scandal of al-Sisi’s presidential palaces
The issue of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s palaces has returned to the scene, about a year after it was raised by the artist and contractor Mohamed Ali, who reappeared again, calling for mass demonstrations on September 20. For the first time,…
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