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The show must go on: Unpublished documents confirm ‘violations’ don’t block EU financing

To keep migrants away from European shores, the EU is loosening its own human rights benchmarks and quietly rubber-stamping billions in concessional loans to Cairo.

Beesan Kassab_ 9-8-2026

The show must go on: Unpublished documents confirm ‘violations’ don’t block EU financing

Urban & Economy_ The ‘new’ North Coast: Exclusion comes home to roost

Amr Adly_ 5-8-2026

The ‘new’ North Coast: Exclusion comes home to roost

Viewpoints_ Ceuta’s ‘invasion’: The war’s North African front

Basel Ramsis_ 5-8-2026

Ceuta’s ‘invasion’: The war’s North African front

Politics_ The day after Damietta: Will Egypt be dragged into war?

Dina Samak_ 4-8-2026

The day after Damietta: Will Egypt be dragged into war?

Politics_ What a $20,000 drone revealed about Egypt’s air defenses

Ahmed Albordeny_ 2-8-2026

What a $20,000 drone revealed about Egypt’s air defenses

News_

SIM registration chaos fuels fears of criminal liability

SIM registration chaos fuels fears of criminal liability

Netanyahu defies US-backed Gaza plan, rules out withdrawal and Palestinian state

Netanyahu defies US-backed Gaza plan, rules out withdrawal and Palestinian state

Misr El Amria suspends operations indefinitely as 12-day strike escalates

Misr El Amria suspends operations indefinitely as 12-day strike escalates

US aid leaves Egyptians in the grip of a ‘military dictatorship’, Abdul El-Sayed says

US aid leaves Egyptians in the grip of a ‘military dictatorship’, Abdul El-Sayed says

Politics_

The Taliban’s Brussels bargain: Trading normalization for deportation

Hussein Baoumi_ 30-7-2026

The Taliban’s Brussels bargain: Trading normalization for deportation

Right to arms: What tipped the scales for Khalil Al-Hayya?

Al‑Hayya takes Hamas’s helm by a razor‑thin vote, inheriting a fractured movement, stalled ceasefire, and pressure over weapons, governance, and Gaza’s reconstruction.

Abdelmoneim Mahmoud_ 28-7-2026

Right to arms: What tipped the scales for Khalil Al-Hayya?

Outside prison, inside the sketch: A day Ashraf Omar escaped the ‘vicious cycle’

Ahmed Dahaby_ 23-7-2026

Outside prison, inside the sketch: A day Ashraf Omar escaped the ‘vicious cycle’

Urban & Economy_

Explainer| Why Egypt’s central bank is tightening its grip on securitization bonds

Hager Atteya_ 29-7-2026

Explainer| Why Egypt’s central bank is tightening its grip on securitization bonds

Cotton Specters| Agriculture and the making of Egyptian dependency

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.

Osama Diab_ 27-7-2026

Cotton Specters| Agriculture and the making of Egyptian dependency

Egypt’s war prep: The strait, the barrel, and the loaf of bread

Amr Adly_ 21-7-2026

Egypt’s war prep: The strait, the barrel, and the loaf of bread

Society_

Sedition à la carte| How one half-truth launched a movement

Saker El Nour_ 26-7-2026

Sedition à la carte| How one half-truth launched a movement

In the hands of butchers: Egypt’s obstetric violence crisis

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.

Rahma Samy_ 24-6-2026

In the hands of butchers: Egypt’s obstetric violence crisis

Aid vs. empowerment: The economic siege on feminist advocacy

Doaa Emam_ 8-6-2026

Aid vs. empowerment: The economic siege on feminist advocacy

Culture_

The chimera of global recognition and the reality of Arab literary decay

Ahmed Naji_ 25-6-2026

The chimera of global recognition and the reality of Arab literary decay

Translating the Arabic novel: Distorting our literature, diminishing our voice

Weak and selective translations of Arabic literature can distort its richness, marginalize its global presence and reinforce Western stereotypes of Arab society.

Ammar Ali Hassan_ 26-5-2026

Translating the Arabic novel: Distorting our literature, diminishing our voice

The halos and horrors of silver screen motherhood

Aliaa Talaat_ 30-3-2026

The halos and horrors of silver screen motherhood

Viewpoints_

The Gulf wants solidarity, but on whose terms?

Khaled Dawoud_ 8-4-2026

The Gulf wants solidarity, but on whose terms?

No cross on the pitch: Where are Egypt’s Christian footballers?

Ishak Ibrahim_ 20-7-2026

No cross on the pitch: Where are Egypt’s Christian footballers?

‘I am a hostage in my own country, but I will never forgive the Brotherhood’

A daughter reconstructs her father’s desperate, ignored warnings to the Muslim Brotherhood leadership as Egypt spiraled toward the historic fracture of June 30.

سارة إبراهيم _ 15-7-2026

‘I am a hostage in my own country, but I will never forgive the Brotherhood’

Science & Technology_

The peephole economy: Monopoly’s grip on World Cup broadcasting

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.

Mohammad El-Taher_ 19-7-2026

The peephole economy: Monopoly’s grip on World Cup broadcasting

Not so PG: The biometric trap in Egypt’s Child Protection Law

Egypt is drafting a bill on children's social media use; the real test is whether it disciplines platforms or entrenches mass surveillance capabilities.

Mohammad El-Taher_ 1-6-2026

Not so PG: The biometric trap in Egypt’s Child Protection Law
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