All developments in the region are in favour of Israel, and lead it to regional and civil wars, former Egyptian assistant to the foreign minister, Hussein Haridy, said.
He added that the US president's speech in October, the resignation of Lebanese (...)
The religious discourse in Egypt and the Arab region is being heavily criticized, with lots of accusations that made President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi give directions to renew the discourse, same as Saudi Prince Mohamed Bin Salman, who is leading the (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with voters during her election campaign in the city of Finister Valde, Brandenburg, on Sunday, 3 September, as part of her tour to promote her party's candidates for the parliamentary elections.
Merkel's mass (...)
Yesterday, the Egyptian armed forces received the s42 submarine of the model 209/1400 from Germany. This is the second submarine purchased by Egypt from the German side after the s41, which joined the Egyptian navy fleet a few months ago in a deal (...)
The 3rd of April 2011 is a historical day for political life: the day the establishment of the Free Egyptians Party was announced—a party based on the principles of freedom and citizenship.
Everyone working in politics considered the party as a new (...)
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I have numerous memories that date back to the end of the 1990s in Jabal Al-Halal, located 60 kilometres south of Al-Arish. We visited the mountain a few days ago after the elimination of terrorists (...)
Egyptian scriptwriter and poet Medhat El-Adl said that Egyptian cinema today has enough potential to compete for Academy Awards—known as the Oscars—after 40 years of commercial movies; however, the film industry faces a difficult crisis (...)
In the time of the Muslim Brotherhood, I met with one of their leaders, who was the secretary general of the Pharmacists Syndicate in one of the governorates adjacent to the capital. I asked him about the reasons for their aggression against the (...)
State Council judges have penned a new line in the honour of the Egyptian judicial record. One of the council's judges said the decisively final word in the conflict between the Egyptian government and a major segment of the community on the (...)
I have many friends who once belonged to the middle class. They did not need state subsidies because they were able to live and afford education, healthcare, transportation, etc. for their children. However, the government's decisions came against (...)
I belong to a generation that used to do well with a monthly allowance of EGP 3 in the 1980s during the first years of preparatory school. Once I enrolled in university, this allowance reached EGP 30, and it was enough for us to enjoy life. This (...)
Like other Egyptians, during my bachelor studies I dreamed of travelling to Germany to satisfy my ambitions. I saw it as the promised paradise and its citizens as organised beehives. My dream went unfulfilled, and 15 years would go by until I would (...)
Michael Grunewald, the manager of AWO Refugee House in Gotenburger Straße, a pluralistic neighbourhood located in Berlin that is home to many Arabs, Turks, and Iranians, believes that the recent wave of refugees coming into Germany are very (...)
The head of Germany's social democratic party (SPD) headquarters in Berlin, Dennis Buchner, ruled out that opening the German border for refugees could be a long-term electoral manoeuvre by chancellor Angela Merkel and the ruling party. He refuted (...)
New refugees in Germany have encountered several problems: from manipulation by translators in accordance with their political leanings or psychology, and the difficulty of learning the language, to brokers taking advantage of their need for (...)
Manfred Nowak, chairperson of the workers' welfare association (AWO), woke up early one day to find that Nazi graffiti had been sprayed on the walls of a refugees home in Berlin, drawn by rightwingers.
"This is not a real threat," Novak said. "This (...)
Refugees in Europe have more to worry about than the smugglers. Police are chasing them across Europe, but there are those who are trying to help refugees integrate into society, and to legalise their status. Elona Müller-Preinesberger, executive (...)
The concept of a migrant advisory committee is strange to Egyptian and Arab readers, because it is not part of our political reality. The committee is a political entity whose members are elected by foreigners who do not have the right to vote in (...)
Like many other young people Ahmed—who refused to publish his full name—dreamed of living in the west, and to become a businessman in countries distinguished by prosperity and job opportunities, instead of being a carpenter. This is what he thought (...)
Fadia Fouda is a Palestinian woman who lived in Lebanon and had married a leftist during the Lebanese civil war. Given her husband's political ideology their lives were in constant danger in Lebanon, which pushed them to leave Lebanon and go to (...)
Iranian refugee Mitra Robeer came to Germany with her mother and sister in 1998 and currently works as a translator for refugees—Arabs and Persians in particular.
"My sister and I left Iran thanks to a plan my mother formulated. We were both wanted (...)
Everything about the life of an asylum seeker has two sides. The dreams that refugees may have of a Promised Land can shape their destiny, making them indignant or satisfied. If they are looking for safety and the right to a better life, then they (...)
Like other Egyptians, during my bachelor studies I dreamed of travelling to Germany to satisfy my ambitions. I saw it as the promised paradise and its citizens as organised beehives. My dream went unfulfilled, and 15 years would go by until I would (...)
Daily News Egypt sat down with economist and strategic affairs expert Abdel Khalek Farouk, who stated that President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has no economic experience and that the people surrounding him are either army generals who are inexperienced (...)
A prominent engineer and political activist, Mamdouh Hamza sat down with Daily News Egypt to discuss the ailing economy and what the government is doing, and not doing, to fix it.
Hamza believes that the government's mega projects will ultimately (...)