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As Kuwait accelerates plans to replace over 7,000 foreign teachers, Egyptian expatriates face an abrupt three-month countdown to secure new employment or leave the country.
Three years after 7 October, Hamas cadres in Gaza weigh the war’s staggering toll against their conviction, asking whether the fateful decision was worth the price.
Long before technical fixes, Egypt’s cotton boom broke natural nutrient cycles, plunging fields into disease and forcing decades of grueling hand labor on rural children.
As summer 2026 ends, Ras El-Bar’s days as a working-class resort may be numbered. As rents climb and luxury compounds rise, families are being squeezed into a single day by the sea
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.
Resistance begins with individual acts that grow into secret cells and small armies. Yet every militia model eventually reaches a peak where it must fight or fracture.
Tech giants are eyeing Egypt for massive data centers. But as Chile’s experience shows, hosting them drains scarce water and energy while yielding meager economic returns.
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.