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Parliament Diaries| Everyone loses as rent law passes unchanged

Caught between landlords demanding swift contract termination and tenants fearing eviction, Parliament passes a rent law that satisfies neither and deepens the divide.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 19-6-2025

Parliament Diaries| Everyone loses as rent law passes unchanged

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Missing in Sinai: Egypt’s forgotten soldiers of 1967

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As Egypt uncovers its missing soldiers, evidence mounts of Israeli war crimes in 1967. Massacres, mass graves, and decades of silence with no justice in sight.

Mohamed El Kholy_ 5-6-2025

Missing in Sinai: Egypt’s forgotten soldiers of 1967

Parliament Diaries| A missed storm warning, and a Parliament fast asleep

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After a violent storm hit Alexandria, Egypt’s Parliament stayed silent while the Senate responded by chance, raising urgent questions about climate readiness and political will.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 4-6-2025

Parliament Diaries| A missed storm warning, and a Parliament fast asleep

Parliament Diaries| In loud times, water reform trickles in silence

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Parliament passed a pivotal water utility law with minimal debate, as electoral and rent law battles took center stage, exposing deeper crises in political priorities.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 29-5-2025

Parliament Diaries| In loud times, water reform trickles in silence

Sudan’s future: peace or partition?

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Keeping Sudan weak and dysfunctional benefits certain foreign powers by making it easier to exploit its vast water resources and livestock wealth.

Abdelhady Al-Hag_ 26-5-2025

Sudan’s future: peace or partition?

Parliament Diaries| A quiet showdown over fatwa authority

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Al-Azhar secured control over fatwas through quiet negotiations while the press lost ground again, fragmented and unsupported as freedoms continue to shrink.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 19-5-2025

Parliament Diaries| A quiet showdown over fatwa authority

Trump’s Gulf gamble: Oil, leverage and shifting alliances

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Trump’s Gulf tour blends economics and geopolitics, reviving petrodollar ties and reshaping US strategy amid Israel's war on Gaza and growing Gulf-China links.

Amr Adly_ 15-5-2025

Trump’s Gulf gamble: Oil, leverage and shifting alliances

Parliament Diaries| In a rare scene, Parliament listens

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Parliament holds rare public hearings on the old rent law, exposing deep divides between landlords and tenants, and raising urgent questions about justice and reform.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 14-5-2025

Parliament Diaries| In a rare scene, Parliament listens

Between margins and hope: Could an Arab ever become pope?

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Despite Latin America's large Catholic population, its representation in the College of Cardinals remains limited. Europe still holds the lion’s share of voting power.

Sara Allam Shaltout_ 9-5-2025

Between margins and hope: Could an Arab ever become pope?

Parliament Diaries| Rent reform without receipts

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Egypt’s Parliament debates a sweeping rent law reform without up-to-date data, risking eviction for millions and exposing deep gaps in housing policy and planning.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 8-5-2025

Parliament Diaries| Rent reform without receipts

Escaping the minefield of Egypt's old rent law

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Some see the ruling as long-awaited relief, others as a looming crisis. The state sees a dilemma, observers warn of fallout—but it may be a chance Egypt can’t afford to miss.

Mohamed Bassal_ 7-5-2025

Escaping the minefield of Egypt's old rent law

Parliament Diaries| A ticking bomb in the red hall

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A proposed overhaul of Egypt’s Rent Control Law sparks rare unity, and deep anxiety, in Parliament, as MPs warn of mass evictions and social fallout.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 6-5-2025

Parliament Diaries| A ticking bomb in the red hall

As others flew to Rome, Pope Tawadros chose a different path

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Under Pope Shenouda, the Coptic Church moved with clarity towards Christian unity and a global ecclesial identity. Now, it is caught between global vision and internal hesitation

Sara Allam Shaltout_ 5-5-2025

As others flew to Rome, Pope Tawadros chose a different path

On press freedom day, journalists vote for freedom

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On Press Freedom Day, Egypt’s journalists re-elect Khaled Elbalshy to lead a syndicate council favoring independence, facing state pressure, smears, and high stakes.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 5-5-2025

On press freedom day, journalists vote for freedom

Jordan, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood: A fractured alliance

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Since Jordan closed Hamas’ offices in Amman in 1999, its relationship with the Brotherhood and Hamas has been a tangled web of tension, mistrust, and shifting power.

Abdelmoneim Mahmoud_ 30-4-2025

Jordan, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood: A fractured alliance

Al-Golani, from Al-Qaeda’s cloak to Zelenskyy’s shirt

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With a neatly trimmed beard and a Zelenskyy-style button-up, Al-Golani sheds his jihadist past—emerging as a central player in Syria’s shifting power game.

Mohamed Khayyal_ 29-4-2025

Al-Golani, from Al-Qaeda’s cloak to Zelenskyy’s shirt

Press freedom in Egypt: A decade of censorship

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A decade of growing state control has reshaped Egypt’s media into an echo chamber. How was the press subdued—and what happened inside the newsrooms we no longer see?

Mohamed El Kholy_ 26-4-2025

Press freedom in Egypt: A decade of censorship

Parliament Diaries| The dented victory of the medical liability law

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It’s not ideal. But in the world of policy and politics, especially in a chamber dominated by a pro-government bloc, the ideal is often sacrificed on the altar of the doable.

Safaa Essam Eddin_ 22-4-2025

Parliament Diaries| The dented victory of the medical liability law

Student, professor, lover, and mother: The many faces of Laila Soueif

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Courageously, Laila faces the challenges and walks every path as she always has, hoping for her own survival and for Alaa to regain his freedom while she is still alive.

Mohamed El Kholy_ 13-4-2025

Student, professor, lover, and mother: The many faces of Laila Soueif