Al Manassa | A People's Narrative

Viewpoints_ The signposts to safety for a prudent autocrat

Tamer Abu Arab_ 4-12-2025

The signposts to safety for a prudent autocrat

Politics_

Engineered Collapse: The final effort to polish Egypt’s parliamentary vote fails

Annulled districts, clashing narratives, and rare court rulings expose fractures in the political engineering behind Egypt’s 2025 parliament and raise doubts over its legitimacy.

Mohamed Napolion_ 4-12-2025

Engineered Collapse: The final effort to polish Egypt’s parliamentary vote fails

Viewpoints_ Abdelaty not jailed for quacking like a duck

Ahmed Naji_ 3-12-2025

Abdelaty not jailed for quacking like a duck

Urban & Economy_

Container wars: Can Egypt’s state operators compete with global port giants?

State container terminals face mounting pressure as global shipping giants expand their hold on Egypt’s ports, challenging public operators.

Mohamed Ismail_ 2-12-2025

Container wars: Can Egypt’s state operators compete with global port giants?

Viewpoints_ Workers' Strikes: A rehearsal for a social explosion waiting in the wings

Hesham Fouad_ 1-12-2025

Workers' Strikes: A rehearsal for a social explosion waiting in the wings

Viewpoints_ The signposts to safety for a prudent autocrat

Engineered Collapse: The final effort to polish Egypt’s parliamentary vote fails

Viewpoints_ Abdelaty not jailed for quacking like a duck

Container wars: Can Egypt’s state operators compete with global port giants?

Viewpoints_ Workers' Strikes: A rehearsal for a social explosion waiting in the wings

News_

US pushes El-Sisi–Netanyahu meeting to deepen interdependence

Egypt partners Honeywell to make jet fuel from cooking oil

Israel will retain "sovereign power" from the river to the sea, Netanyahu repeats

Egypt fast-tracks 11 state company sales for IMF funds

Politics_

Water workers raise their voices, but is the state listening?

The Empire's Vizier: Epstein and the new Middle East

Election rigged by bribery, no matter the president’s shout

Urban & Economy_

Unemployment may be falling, but labor market tells a deeper story

Evicted by inflation: The rising cost of renting in Egypt’s working-class districts

Will GEM deliver the promised tourism boom?

Society_

Male deacons only: Conservative voices silence women in the church

The olive trees of the West Bank cried too

For Gazans in Egypt the road home is paved with pain

Culture_

“Palestinian on the Road”: A road trip after Jesus

Interview| Monica Hanna: Confronting Afrocentrism through research, not racism

Ancient Khemites: Museums and the making of modern Egyptian identity

Viewpoints_

Bassem Youssef: The jester with neither illusions nor a cape

“It has reached me”: Decrypting the riddles of the president’s statement

Science & Technology_

The Banned Gas: Methyl bromide is still flooding Egypt's farmland

Unreal art, real consequences: When imagination meets institutional fear

Not everybody is ready for the fall of the AI house of cards