After BBC reports emerged indicating that Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak allowed the resettlement of Palestinians in Egypt in response to US requests in the 1980s, Mubarak released a statement on Wednesday denying the claims. In a statement...اقرأ المزيد
In the latest escalation in the Egypt-Qatar rift, Qatar Airways announced it will be terminating its operations in Egypt, and ending all contracts for Egyptian employees, according to Qatar Airways workers. Workers reported that they had received letters...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry condemned a statement by the Israeli Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel in which she said that a future Palestinian state should be established on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In a phone interview with privately-run Egyptian...اقرأ المزيد
God, Small developments can multiply. Small disagreements can explode. For those involved there is no small. For the nation, wait and see. The region’s largest fish farm opened in one of the nation’s poorest districts. The pollution from burning post-harvest...اقرأ المزيد
Qatari citizens will no longer be permitted to enter Egypt unless they hold an entry visa, after Egypt’s Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Gaffar issued a dramatic new decree. The decree, which will come into effect on Thursday, replaces a previous resolution...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt is set to receive its next International Monetary Fund loan disbursal in December, Finance Minister Amr El Garhy said on Wednesday, a $2 billion payment that is part of a three-year $12 billion loan agreement. The payment will bring total disbursements...اقرأ المزيد
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday that terrorism is the greatest threat to the peoples of the Middle East, and called on the countries of the region to come together to counter it because citizens’ personal safety is a basic human right. He...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt ranked 139th on the world peace index for 2017, jumping by 3 levels compared to 2016, according to a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, issued on Sunday, which listed a total of 163 countries. The index measures the degree of peacefulness...اقرأ المزيد
A rights lawyer says an Egyptian court has ordered a prominent activist to remain in custody pending trial on charges of participating in an illegal protest against the government’s transfer of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Taher Aboelnasr...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt is the number one producer of dates in the world, ahead of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. The annual production is estimated at 1.5 million tons, equivalent to 17.7 percent of world production...اقرأ المزيد