Egypt, Jordan explore joint projects in water, food, and energy sectors    PM reviews measures to streamline tourist entry at airports, border crossings    Madbouly, EBRD president discuss expanded economic cooperation    Egypt's Al-Sisi meets Bohra Sultan, discusses cooperation, regional role    Israel expands Gaza offensive, drawing international condemnation    Egyptian FM addresses Arab Women Organization Conference opening    Egyptian pound closes high vs. US dollar – CBE    Australia's services PMI slows to 51 in April '25    Egypt condemns attacks on infrastructure in Sudan    Egypt's CBE auctions EGP 5b in FRN T-bonds    Egypt's pharma market hits EGP309b in '24 – EDA Chairman    Egypt, Comoros pledge stronger economic ties, call for unified African voice on global issues    Egypt, Saudi Arabia deepen health sector cooperation with comprehensive MoU    India suspends all Pakistani imports indefinitely    White House to cut NASA budget    Egypt's UHIA launches 1st electronic medical pricing system    On Sport to broadcast Pan Arab Golf Championship for Juniors and Ladies in Egypt    EU ambassador commends Aswan's public healthcare during official visit    Golf Festival in Cairo to mark Arab Golf Federation's 50th anniversary    Germany among EU's priciest labour markets – official data    UNFPA Egypt, Bayer sign agreement to promote reproductive health    Cabinet approves establishment of national medical tourism council to boost healthcare sector    "5,000 Years of Civilizational Dialogue" theme for Korea-Egypt 30th anniversary event    Sudan conflict, bilateral ties dominate talks between Al-Sisi, Al-Burhan in Cairo    Cairo's Madinaty and Katameya Dunes Golf Courses set to host 2025 Pan Arab Golf Championship from May 7-10    Between Women Filmmakers' Caravan opens 5th round of Film Consultancy Programme for Arab filmmakers    Fourth Cairo Photo Week set for May, expanding across 14 Downtown locations    Egypt's PM follows up on Julius Nyerere dam project in Tanzania    Ancient military commander's tomb unearthed in Ismailia    Egypt's FM inspects Julius Nyerere Dam project in Tanzania    Egypt's FM praises ties with Tanzania    Egypt to host global celebration for Grand Egyptian Museum opening on July 3    Ancient Egyptian royal tomb unearthed in Sohag    Egyptian Minister praises Nile Basin consultations, voices GERD concerns    Paris Olympic gold '24 medals hit record value    A minute of silence for Egyptian sports    Russia says it's in sync with US, China, Pakistan on Taliban    It's a bit frustrating to draw at home: Real Madrid keeper after Villarreal game    Shoukry reviews with Guterres Egypt's efforts to achieve SDGs, promote human rights    Sudan says countries must cooperate on vaccines    Johnson & Johnson: Second shot boosts antibodies and protection against COVID-19    Egypt to tax bloggers, YouTubers    Egypt's FM asserts importance of stability in Libya, holding elections as scheduled    We mustn't lose touch: Muller after Bayern win in Bundesliga    Egypt records 36 new deaths from Covid-19, highest since mid June    Egypt sells $3 bln US-dollar dominated eurobonds    Gamal Hanafy's ceramic exhibition at Gezira Arts Centre is a must go    Italian Institute Director Davide Scalmani presents activities of the Cairo Institute for ITALIANA.IT platform    

Articles of the author Dina Ezzat
When the tough gets tougher
Rima Tanani, a teacher from South Lebanon, was brought up against the political and other crises facing her country last month when she decided to file a lawsuit against a parliamentarian associated with the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah over his (...)

21 - 09 - 2021
Egypt at UNGA: Lobbying for compromises
In a recorded statement to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi said on Tuesday that Egypt is still "committed to work to reach, in the nearest time possible" a fair, balanced, "and legally binding agreement" on (...)

21 - 09 - 2021
The Azharites' experience
AZHARITES IN KABUL: On the afternoon of 24 August, Al-Azhar University teacher Shawki Abu Zeid landed on a military plane in Cairo after having been evicted from Kabul in the wake of the Taliban takeover of the capital of Afghanistan. The trip from (...)

14 - 09 - 2021
New commitment on human rights
Early next week, Egypt will see the launch of the new National Strategy for Human Rights, a document of around 100 pages that stipulates a set of government commitments to improve elements of socio-economic, cultural, and political rights in the (...)

07 - 09 - 2021
Climate change is happening now
On 3 September, a group of non-governmental organisations and government bodies that work on climate change will meet in Cairo to discuss cooperation and possible plans of action to expand awareness and programmes designed to help reduce levels of (...)

31 - 08 - 2021
Contextualising the Taliban
"The Taliban of today are not very different from the Taliban of the 1990s. They might act differently for now, but I think in gradual terms we will be seeing a replay of Taliban rule in Afghanistan as it unfolded in the 1990s," commented Ahmed (...)

24 - 08 - 2021
All eyes on Mogadishu
As part of Egypt's strategy to engage further with the African states, especially those in the east of the continent and around the Nile Basin, Cairo unrolled the red carpet for Prime Minister of Somalia Mohamed Hussein Roble during a visit to Egypt (...)

24 - 08 - 2021
The race against Delta Plus
Within the next six weeks Egypt is aiming to vaccinate over 6 million people with at least one shot of the five vaccines currently in use in Egypt. The rush to vaccinate coincides with the expected arrival of a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections in (...)

24 - 08 - 2021
Alternative perspectives on the city
On 1 October this year, curator and architectural historian Mohamed ElShahed will be launching one of the many exhibitions he has been involved with in putting together the architectural history of Cairo. This time, the exhibition is taking place in (...)

24 - 08 - 2021
Ciaro — the changing city
What has been the meaning of the city of Cairo to different people from different backgrounds over recent years? This is arguably the underlying question of Egyptian critic Dina Heshmat's book The Evolution of Representations of Cairo in Modern and (...)

17 - 08 - 2021
In the wake of the US withdrawal
Later this month Iraq is due to host a political and security meeting, trailed as a "neighbourhood conference", at head-of-state level. A full list of participants in the meeting has yet to be announced. So far, Gulf countries, Egypt, Jordan and (...)

17 - 08 - 2021
The emergency in Lebanon
It has been a year since Nassif Hitti, a prominent Lebanese diplomat, resigned from his job as the country's foreign minister. On 3 August 2020, almost 24 hours before Beirut was hit by devastating blasts in its port where a poorly stored shipment (...)

03 - 08 - 2021
'United in pain'
Dalia Khamissi, a photographer from Beirut, was sitting on her sofa trying to get a bite to eat and have a heart-to-heart chat with a friend on the phone when her friend suddenly stopped and said, "fire! There's a huge fire right in front of me!" "I (...)

03 - 08 - 2021
GERD: Ends and Beginnings
On Monday, 19 July 2021, Ethiopia announced the completion of the second filling of the reservoir of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The announcement failed to specify the amount of water that Addis Ababa managed to withhold from the (...)

19 - 07 - 2021
Jehan Sadat (1933-2021): A woman of Egypt
Like her husband Anwar Sadat, Jehan Sadat, who died this week, is the focus of conflicting views and contradictory sentiments. Below, Al-Ahram Weekly recalls some of the most significant moments in the life of this controversial but remarkable (...)

13 - 07 - 2021
Jehan Al-Sadat, 1933-2021: The first lady who pushed the lines
News of the death of Jehan Al-Sadat, which was announced this morning in Cairo, came as the last episode in the story of a woman who was always associated with many conflicting images, ranging from grace to malice. The question of whether she was (...)

09 - 07 - 2021
Egypt will 'uphold and protect its inherent right to life,' FM Shoukry tells UNSC
In a meeting that lasted for over three hours, members of the UN Security Council called on Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt to complete their talks, to settle the dispute over the GERD, under the umbrella of the African Union, in good faith and away from (...)

09 - 07 - 2021
Egypt to explain how GERD crisis threatens int'l peace at UNSC today
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry is set today to warn members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against the "possible worrying consequences" of allowing Ethiopia to get away with its unending intransigence that has blocked all (...)

08 - 07 - 2021
Furthering relations with South Sudan
The prime minister of Egypt and the vice president of South Sudan are scheduled to chair the High Level Egypt-South Sudan Committee at its meeting in Cairo later this month, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the independence of South Sudan in (...)

06 - 07 - 2021
GERD: All options open
"We know the limitations of any possible UN Security Council action could produce on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam [GERD] crisis. But the pursuit of international support is not the only option we have to handle the GERD crisis," said a senior (...)

06 - 07 - 2021
Treating the ailments of physicians
It was two years ago that Helmi Al-Sewidi, an Egyptian family doctor, started a new page in his medical career under the umbrella of Egypt's new unified healthcare system (UHCS) that was then being introduced in his hometown of Port Said. Having (...)

06 - 07 - 2021
What if...
On the evening of 3 July 2013, millions of Egyptians celebrated the end of Muslim Brotherhood rule. Much of the Western media was stunned by the events that culminated in the dismissal of former president Mohamed Morsi after a year in power. (...)

29 - 06 - 2021
A new pan-Arabism
This week, as part of an ambitious diplomatic scheme to rework inter-Arab relations, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi made a rare visit of an Egyptian head of state to Iraq. "It is the first visit to Baghdad by an Egyptian president in 30 years," the (...)

29 - 06 - 2021
The hawks gather
"We are trying to come up with an arrangement but so far it has not been easy to do so. We have to continue trying." This is how an Egyptian official characterised Cairo's ongoing attempts to kick-start humanitarian assistance and the reconstruction (...)

22 - 06 - 2021
Pushing for an inclusive reconciliation
For close to 20 years, Mohamed Ibrahim, a retired general, was Egypt's go-to man for managing inter-Palestinian quarrels. He was also very hands-on in managing Palestinian-Israeli relations, especially when it came to relations between Israel and (...)

15 - 06 - 2021
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