Systemic neglect meets political theater in Wady El-Mullak, where roads are only paved and bridges built when officials arrive to mourn the 18 young workers they failed to protect
The Brussels visit reveals how deportation and border control have become leverage, allowing de facto authorities like the Taliban to trade cooperation for recognition.
Integrating into global value chains extracted billions of labor-hours and cubic meters of water from Egypt, cementing a deep, historic pattern of structural unequal exchange.
While medical institutions treat maternal pain as ordinary, experts warn that the lack of legal criminalization leaves the poorest women exposed to severe institutional trauma.
Abu Bakr Shawky’s “Stories” traces one Egyptian family from 1967 to 1984, tracking love, war, prices and Zamalek in a slow, aching portrait of ordinary survival.
Weak and selective translations of Arabic literature can distort its richness, marginalize its global presence and reinforce Western stereotypes of Arab society.
From the 1902 dam heightening to forgotten constitutional promises in 2026, a Nubian advocate reflects on displacement, legal betrayal, and the struggle for the right of return.
Technologically speaking, the internet could easily stream the World Cup to everyone at once. Broadcasters make sure it doesn't — and piracy fills the gap, at a price of its own.
Egypt is drafting a bill on children's social media use; the real test is whether it disciplines platforms or entrenches mass surveillance capabilities.