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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aty (R) receives Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Cairo, Egypt, on 2 June 2025. Reuters

No matter who wins the Israel-Iran war, Egypt stands to lose

If Israel wins, it will likely move ahead with implementing its plan to push Palestinians out of Gaza, which could lead to a war with Egypt. If Iran wins, its proxies could further divide the region.

Amr Emam 17 June 2025
Russia's President Vladimir Putin greets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi prior to the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2025. Mikhail METZEL / AFP

As Trump visited the Gulf, Egypt was busy meeting with its new friends

These days, Cairo looks more to Beijing and Moscow than to Washington, a policy change with its roots in the toppling of Hosni Mubarak more than a decade ago.

Amr Emam 20 May 2025
Late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi arrive together at the Arab Summit venue in Rabat on December 23, 1969. AFP

A 50-year-old recording sheds light on Egypt's position toward Israel today

A conversation between a jaded Abdel Nasser and a starry-eyed Gaddafi has gone viral because of its striking relevance to the debates of today. The leaders have changed, but the perspective remains.

Amr Emam 11 May 2025
Masked men from the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas SAID KHATIB / AFP

Demands for Hamas to disarm have been rebuffed. What next?

There are competing visions for Gaza, from a 'riviera' without Palestinians to a rebuilt enclave run by Palestinians for Palestinians. Until then, thousands are still being killed.

Amr Emam 25 April 2025
Jordan's King Abdullah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron pose during a trilateral summit to discuss the situation in Gaza, at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, April 7, 2025.

Have the Camp David Accords overstayed their welcome?

The 1979 peace between Egypt and Israel served its purpose for almost half a century, but the latter's 17-month-long onslaught on Gaza has thrown it into disarray. What now for the accords?

Khaled Essam Eleslamboly 07 April 2025
Israel forcibly evacuates Palestinians from southern Gaza on January 26, 2024. AFP

Israel’s ‘voluntary’ migration policy in Gaza is anything but

Palestinians are beginning to dribble out of the battered enclave as Israel starts implementing its "voluntary migration" plan. Gaza is being ethnically cleansed before our very eyes.

Amr Emam 30 March 2025
A factory in Egypt Getty

Egypt’s phosphates: a strategic resource being given a boost

The country has the world's second-largest reserves but is only the eighth-largest producer. It hopes to boost production to meet global demand.

Marcelle Nasr 27 March 2025
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty (L) and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attempt to shake hands during a photo opportunity ahead of a meeting in the US State Department Building on February 10, 2025, in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker / AFP

Egypt treads fine line as it pushes for alternative Gaza plan

Cairo hopes an upcoming Arab summit can come up with a different proposal to counter Trump's plan to turn Gaza into the 'Riviera of the Middle East', but this push comes with great political risk

Amr Emam 19 February 2025
Students on the American University of Beirut campus Shutterstock

Arab students' futures in limbo after USAID funds freeze

The shuttering of aid has caused huge problems for students in Lebanon and Egypt on US scholarships. What does the future hold?

Joudy El-Asmar 17 February 2025
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Saudi market whets the appetite of Egyptian developers

Mounting challenges in Egypt contrast sharply with the stability of Saudi Arabia, where the real estate sector will soon be among the world's biggest. No wonder Egyptian developers are looking east

Sharif Mohammad 07 February 2025
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Closure denied: the agonising search for Gaza's vanished

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Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.

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After 54 years in exile, a prominent Syrian novelist returns to a Damascus he no longer recognises 

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