Current Affairs of Egypt

May Ziadeh was known as the butterfly of literature and the wounded Arab name.

During the fifties and sixties of last century, Egypt played a prominent role in the geo-political circles within the Middle East region.

Extremists silenced the voices of Egyptian female reciters because they are awrah.

Sandstorms and shifting sand dunes pose the biggest threat to Sudan’s pyramids.

The British legislation on assembly in Egypt is used for mass arrests to this day.

Relying on individual genius made no difference for the Encyclopaedia of al-Bustani.

Turkey is trying to break out of its regional isolation by rehabilitating ties with Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The policy of the British empire on the Suez canal remained ambivalent.

Kings of ancient Egypt were moved to a new shrine in a legendary procession.

The water crisis is arguably the largest concern for Sisi’s regime. The agriculture sector, after all, composes about a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product.

While aid to Egypt has been consistently withheld in the past, this is the first time the US State Department cannot exercise a waiver option in the interests of US national security.

Hosting the championship is a minor maneuver that Egypt won’t be able to benefit from to improve its position with regional and global partners.

“Arab Spring” was an opportunity for Islamists that they could not miss to establish a “theocratic rule”. To know more about the issue, read this blog of Ghassan Okla.

The Musicians Association and its President, singer Hani Shaker, intervened and banned festival singers from participating in concerts, after the wide spread of the song “The neighbour’s daughter,” by festival singer Hassan Shakoush, which hit …

Arab regimes always use a carrot-and-stick policy while dealing with intellectuals. To know more about the issue, read this blog written by Hakim Marzouki.

The Egyptian sovereign fund quickly acquired a large number of Egyptian state assets, including 126 holding and subsidiary companies that are affiliated with the Ministry of the Public Business Sector.

Theaters of Citizenship traces the formation of repertoires of citizenship across national and transnational, aesthetic and political modes. Since theater had long been a meeting point for critical intellectuals, it was a natural venue for developing …

Poetry and Singing plays a vital role in the emergence of a current Arab renaissance. For a century, they have been important in advancing change in Egypt.

At a time when the world’s governments praised their medical teams for their sacrifices in the face of the pandemic, Egypt entered into consequent battle with doctors and the medical industry, in response to their accusation that the government was …

Nevertheless, they remain just one example of the many artefacts that make urban spheres active spaces of remembrance. In my imagination and maybe to those of others, these slashed posters manifest my own chaotic memory, as if I were looking into an …