The world is watching the developments on the Russian-Ukrainian and Palestinian-Israeli fronts with bated breath. We are not talking about limited or ephemeral wars, but about the big explosions of the process that, in the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, will end the West’s “500 years of world domination”. We are approaching the critical developments on both fronts. ...
Reporting from Cairo, Egypt Over the past two years, Egypt has been facing bleak economic prospects that have been worsening day by day. The features of its economic crisis began to take shape and worsen clearly after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022, but the flight of hot money from the country thwarted all government tricks to ...
By Mohamed Naeem The Egyptian author Mohamed Naeem published an article comparing the period of Camp David and today on the website Manassa. Addressing the current conditions centered around Israel’s aggression, Naeem concludes that “the world of Camp David is coming to an end” and “Egypt must prepare for it”. The article was translated from Arabic into English by UWI. ...
Hamas demands a ceasefire, but only on the condition that their demands are met. Who tends to accept Hamas’s terms and to what extent and with what kind of amendments and the relative political, military, diplomatic and morale powers of the sides seem to determine the final outcome of the ceasefire negotiations. Egypt, Qatar and the US are mediators in ...
By Abbas Juma, international journalist, political commentator, Middle East and Africa specialist Washington’s ‘human rights’ justification for withholding aid to Cairo is just a cover for the real strategic reason The United States has decided to punish Egypt for its alleged non-compliance with human rights norms. It should be noted that the subject of human rights is traditionally used by the ...
Reporting from Cairo / Egypt These days, Egypt celebrates the 10th anniversary of the massive demonstrations that took to the streets calling for the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood. These demonstrations were known as the June 30 revolution. They erupted only two and a half years after the January 2011 revolution that overthrew his ...
In 1798, the French, under the leadership of Napoléon Bonaparte, invaded the Ottoman province of Egypt. That same year, the British defeated the French navy at the Battle of Abukir. Nevertheless, the French retained a presence in Egypt until 1801, when they were forced out of the territory by joint British Ottoman forces. In 1799, Napoléon led an expedition into ...
Since the beginning of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt has taken a neutral position, in light of its strong relations with the two countries. Therefore, its diplomacy was constantly keen to stress the need to end the dispute peacefully and find political solutions. This position prompted then-Armenian President Armen Sarkissian, in September 2020, to appeal to his Egyptian ...
Egypt, along with the rest of the world, is passing through a ring of fire. The Egyptian economy, which has been on shaky ground for many years, is now openly on the brink of bankruptcy. For the fourth time in the last six years, the Cairo government has had to knock on the door of the IMF. But neither the ...
Reporting from Cairo, Egypt It seems that the OPEC+ decision to reduce oil production by 2 million barrels per day caused confused American reactions. The US decision to withhold $75 million in military aid allocated to Egypt, about a month after withholding $130 million of same aid, is one manifestation of this confusion. Shuffling the cards Withholding aid came after ...