Egypt, China sign deal to build level-3 biosafety lab    Foreign, housing ministers discuss Egypt's role in African development push    Egypt backs Palestinian unity, calls for ceasefire, aid access    EGX ends week in green on July 10    Egyptian pound strengthens against US dollar on July 10    Egypt, China central banks sign pacts to boost yuan use, payment systems    Egypt's EDA, Haleon discuss local market support    Environment ministry signs agreement to strengthen marine protection, promote ecotourism    Egypt, WHO discuss expanding health cooperation, development initiatives    Service restoration underway after Cairo telecom fire, minister tells PM    Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrives in Egypt for high-level talks    Gaza under siege, fire: Resistance intensifies amid deepening humanitarian collapse    Korea Culture Week in Egypt to blend K-Pop with traditional arts    Egypt, Pakistan boost healthcare ties – Cabinet    UK, Egypt strengthen cooperation on green transition, eco-tourism, and environmental investments    Escalation in Gaza as ceasefire talks remain fragile amid mounting humanitarian crisis    CIB finances Giza Pyramids Sound and Light Show redevelopment with EGP 963m loan    Egypt's PM, Uruguay's president discuss Gaza, trade at BRICS summit    Greco-Roman tombs with hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Aswan    Egypt reveals heritage e-training portal    Three ancient rock-cut tombs discovered in Aswan    Egypt condemns deadly terrorist attack in Niger        Sisi launches new support initiative for families of war, terrorism victims    Egypt's GAH, Spain's Konecta discuss digital health partnership    Egypt expands e-ticketing to 110 heritage sites, adds self-service kiosks at Saqqara    Egypt's Irrigation Minister urges scientific cooperation to tackle water scarcity    Palm Hills Squash Open debuts with 48 international stars, $250,000 prize pool    Egypt's Democratic Generation Party Evaluates 84 Candidates Ahead of Parliamentary Vote    On Sport to broadcast Pan Arab Golf Championship for Juniors and Ladies in Egypt    Golf Festival in Cairo to mark Arab Golf Federation's 50th anniversary    Germany among EU's priciest labour markets – official data    Cabinet approves establishment of national medical tourism council to boost healthcare sector    Egypt's PM follows up on Julius Nyerere dam project in Tanzania    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 Manal Lotfy
Counting the cost of wars
If you want to visualise the financial cost of the war on terror since 11 September 2001, imagine $2 trillion when a dollar is put on top of a dollar reaching far into outer space. Stephanie Savell The first $1 trillion would be 67 miles high, (...)

14 - 09 - 2021
The making and unmaking of the war on terror
Where does the West go from here? This is a legitimate question as the West commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks not by marking a triumph, but by asking hard questions about why the war on terror has been in many (...)

07 - 09 - 2021
Problems in the Iran nuclear talks
Iran and the Western countries are trying to prepare the ground for the resumption of the talks on Iran's nuclear programme, suspended since June because of the Iranian presidential elections. While European diplomatic sources say there is no clear (...)

31 - 08 - 2021
Catastrophic rebranding of US foreign policy
The G7 group of countries failed to persuade US President Joe Biden to postpone the date for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan at a virtual meeting on Tuesday, with Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby saying there had been "no change" to the (...)

24 - 08 - 2021
Losing Afghanistan
When UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace broke down during a media interview on Monday, admitting that the UK may not be able to get all remaining UK nationals and their local allies out of Afghanistan, the scale of the challenges facing the UK and (...)

17 - 08 - 2021
Iranian challenges for the Middle East
The first telephone conversation between new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and a western leader, French President Emmanuel Macron, was the embodiment of the difficulties in relations between Iran and the West. While there are ambitions to improve (...)

10 - 08 - 2021
A game of chess
The West is wary of tensions between Iran and Israel, which at the very least could ruin nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the 5 + 1 countries. That is why Washington and European capitals took their time to respond to an attack on an oil (...)

03 - 08 - 2021
Ebrahim Raisi elected in Iran
The outcome of Iran's presidential elections was not a surprise, with hardline candidate Ebrahim Raisi being duly elected in last week's elections and delivering control over all the agencies of the state to hardliners. However, his victory was (...)

22 - 06 - 2021
The US feel-good tour
US President Joe Biden did not need to do much on his first European tour this week. Just being there was good enough for the feel-good factor to return after four disruptive years under former president Donald Trump. Nonetheless, the challenges (...)

15 - 06 - 2021
A regional reshuffle
In Iranian politics, timing is everything. With that in mind, it is no wonder that Iranian officials are now saying, both explicitly and implicitly, that a return to the nuclear deal will not take place before the election of the new president next (...)

08 - 06 - 2021
Palestinian cause gains momentum in Europe
When pro-Palestinian demonstrations started in many European capitals at the beginning of the recent Israeli offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza, no one expected the protests to attract tens of thousands of people or to continue to gather (...)

25 - 05 - 2021
Restoring the Iran nuclear deal: Breakthrough on the horizon
A flurry of diplomatic activity that has spread through Vienna, Washington, London and the Middle East suggests that talks between the US and Iran may be on the verge of restoring the nuclear deal. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in London (...)

06 - 05 - 2021
Tehran vows revenge
There are few doubts about who carried out the cyber-attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear site last week. Usually, these highly effective operations are carried out by Israel. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility, suspicion fell (...)

12 - 04 - 2021
Negotiations begin with Iran
Efforts to bring the United States and Iran back into the 2015 nuclear deal stepped up a gear this week as the two countries, the Europeans, Russia and China met in Vienna to discuss how to breathe new life into the deal. US President Joe Biden came (...)

06 - 04 - 2021
What has the world learned from Covid-19?
A year ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the Covid-19 outbreak a "global pandemic." The virus spiralled out of control and spread across borders at breathtaking speed, becoming the biggest health crisis the world has faced in over (...)

30 - 03 - 2021
Washington's tightrope in the Middle East
Resetting America's Middle East policy is proving to be a very tough task. This week, US President Joe Biden found himself face-to-face with the complexities of Middle East politics and the conflicting priorities of how to protect America's (...)

02 - 03 - 2021
Is Tehran going in the wrong direction?
The revival of the nuclear deal with Iran was never going to be a simple or straightforward affair. But the difficulties facing even the start of preliminary talks have alarmed Western officials and made them question whether Iranian supreme leader (...)

23 - 02 - 2021
Questions on American democracy
After the expected, yet still shocking, US Senate verdict to acquit former US president Donald Trump of inciting the Capitol Hill insurrection in January this year, many people in the US and the rest of the world are asking questions about American (...)

16 - 02 - 2021
Biden's reset of US foreign policy
One conclusion that US President Joe Biden will have taken from his first few weeks in office is that resetting US foreign policy after four years of former president Donald Trump will not be easy. In a major speech at the State Department, Biden (...)

09 - 02 - 2021
Dangerous waiting game on Iran
US President Joe Biden was inaugurated just two weeks ago, but he has already signed dozens of executive orders addressing pressing issues such as coordinating the US government-wide Covid-19 response, Covid-19 economic relief, immigration (...)

02 - 02 - 2021
Reclaiming America's role
US President Joe Biden is entering his second week in office with a lot on his plate. Among the most pressing issues are plans to produce and distribute the Covid-19 vaccine in the US, economic rescue proposals to support tens of millions of (...)

26 - 01 - 2021
An inauguration like no other
As Al-Ahram Weekly went to press this week, celebrations at the inauguration of new US President Joe Biden on Wednesday were not expected to be wild even if the sense of relief would be. Restricted by the Covid-19 pandemic and various security (...)

20 - 01 - 2021
Trump faces ‘accountability week'
As outgoing US President Donald Trump enters the final week of his divisive and troubled presidency, Democratic Party Congressmen in the US House of Representatives are embarking on an “accountability week” to hold him and their Republican Party (...)

12 - 01 - 2021
Brexit is done
The Brexit experiment has begun: the UK started 2021 outside the European Union, now independent of its rules and regulations after 47 years of membership. With few celebrations on either side, both started with the job in hand, which is to see how (...)

05 - 01 - 2021
A big year for Europe
It has been a turbulent year all over the world, Europe included. The Covid-19 pandemic dominated everything, costing lives, decimating growth, accumulating debts, stifling investment and increasing unemployment. Yet, there could be a lot to (...)

20 - 12 - 2020
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