In late May, the Ismailia Appeals Court ruled to evict the archbishop of Saint Catherine’s Monastery from 14 land plots in South Sinai, part of a larger dispute with the Egyptian government over 71 ...

Around 100 aid trucks carrying flour meant to be delivered to families were looted on Friday shortly after crossing into southern Gaza. Eighty truck drivers were injured to varying degrees, Nahed ...

Urgent appeals have mounted in the last hours for the immediate release of detained activist and writer, Alaa Abd El Fattah, as his mother Laila Soueif lies in hospital in London, 245 days into a ...

During the International Monetary Fund delegation’s visit to Cairo for its ongoing fifth review of Egypt’s US$8 billion loan program, the government renewed its push for a draft law that would ...

I read CAIRO: the undelivered letters the morning after Mai Serhan’s book launch. I came home carrying the book with a quiet urgency to meet it on my own terms. Not through someone else’s framing, not ...

Moushira Khattab has stepped down as president of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) as she intends to pursue a role at an international institution, the council announced on Sunday. Former ...

Hundreds of people stormed a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in Deir al-Balah Governorate on Wednesday night to seize food provisions after distribution of the little aid that has entered the ...

على طريق الضبعة، غرب القاهرة، وسط صحراء مترامية لا ترى نهايتها، يمتد مشروع زراعي ضخم تحيط به بوابات تحمل أسماء دول عربية: «العراق»، و ...

Since taking office, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been keen to note how “youthful” his government is. And more importantly, he has made it clear that this is no accident. The state has ...

Football is Egypt’s most popular sport; the Egyptian national team being the most successful in African Cup history. A cafe filled with people of all ages watching a game is a familiar sight across ...

When news broke in February that an Egyptian firm named Dolphinus Holdings had signed a US$15 billion deal to purchase Israeli natural gas for supply to Egypt, the Egyptian government refused to ...

Egypt launched its first national human rights strategy in a high-profile ceremony on Saturday attended by the president, foreign minister and Cairo’s permanent representative to the United Nations ...