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El-Sisi's last parliament?
Analysts see Egypt’s new parliament—elected without real competition—as a potential step toward scrapping presidential term limits and extending El-Sisi’s rule.
El-Sisi's last parliament?
Mamdani wins New York: A mayor who won’t apologize for being radical
The High Cost of Low Prices| Egypt’s agricultural exports
Migration as an act of resistance
Law on Trial: UNRWA, ICJ, and Israel's politics of defiance
Nazism, exile, and touchscreens: In Cairo with freed Palestinian prisoners
Freed Palestinian prisoners speak of torture, exile, and guilt amid Israel’s war on Gaza, torn between haunting memories and unbroken defiance.
Britain’s Gaza paradox: Diplomacy in the shadow of death
After a Gaza ceasefire, Britain’s ‘recognition’ of Palestine exposes deep hypocrisy: mass protests, arms sales, and intelligence support show UK complicity it still denies.
The gain and pain of raising interest rates
Life after the IMF: An opportunity to think outside the Fund
GERD as a Diversion: Megaprojects for the powerful, austerity for small farmers
As Egypt feared GERD’s impact, the state expanded desert megaprojects, diverting water from small farmers and deepening rural inequality in the name of development.
For Gazans in Egypt the road home is paved with pain
Gaza Journalist Diaries| My mother’s quiet exodus in a wheelchair
A few days ago, I told her that we have to move again, and that our family would have to split up between two different places. She refused.
One or none! Why Egyptians are having fewer babies
Ancient Khemites: Museums and the making of modern Egyptian identity
Egypt’s ancient past, once a symbol of colonial possession, transforms into a source of national renewal and a cornerstone of modern Egyptian identity.
Egypt as the world’s grandmother: Alexandre Dumas’ forgotten voyage
Dancers, mothers, and those escaping the Zuzu complex
The Nobel Prize for ‘Peace Through Force,’ the Western way
It is mismanagement that floods the Nile
Sudan treats the Nile flood as climate and dam-driven; Egypt frames it as politics. In both, farmers bear the cost of mismanaged waters.
Remembering a Massacre| Maspero: Notes on the script of religious bigotry
The Banned Gas: Methyl bromide is still flooding Egypt's farmland
Despite a ban, Egypt imports thousands of tons of methyl bromide. Farmers use it widely, risking health and the ozone layer.