Syria's Kurds have developed a strong influence in the country in recent years, having courageously participated in the battle against the Islamic State (IS) group and being able to assert their military presence through the Syrian Democratic Forces (...)
Cairo - On 25 September 2016, the late Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, 56, was fatally shot ahead of a trial before the courthouse in Jordan's capital Amman. He was accused of sharing a caricature deemed offensive to Islam on his Facebook (...)
Cairo – ‘Eric La Garenne', the prominent French singer, left Egypt earlier this week after three successful performances he gave at the Opera House.
"I have visited Egypt before during its political turmoil phase, especially after the 25th January (...)
The Islamist movements' dream of establishing an Islamic state in Egypt is now closer than ever to being realised, writes Mohamed Hafez
The Egyptian national movement and the Islamist movements in particular have been breathing anew in the post-25 (...)
Egypt's political map has been redrawn since the 25 January Revolution, with previously unrepresented groups and actors entering the electoral fray, writes Mohamed Hafez*
Egypt's political scene has been revitalised since the departure of former (...)
Ostensibly to defend the people, the Revolutionary Committees Gaddafi set up in the 1970s became fearsome tools of his unrestrained dictatorship, writes Mohamed Hafez*
Since protesters took to the streets in Libya, demanding an end to the regime of (...)
A great leap forward has been taken against corruption, but now Egypt needs a robust system of watchdogs to prevent it from resurfacing, writes Mohamed Hafez*
Before the 25 January Revolution, everyone knew that corruption was rampant. Afterwards, (...)
In the coming years, water will fast replace oil in the hierarchy of issues of strategic importance to the region, writes Mohamed Hafez*
Since around the 1960s the equilibrium between water resources and population distribution in the world fell out (...)
Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr has decided to grant an extra two months' salary to staff at the General Authority of Educational Buildings, and to reactivate the medical care provided to the staff in an attempt to solve the recent crisis (...)
The repercussions of the recent Shura Council elections continued in several governorates with the arrests of number of supporters of various candidates and the release of others.
In the Beheira Governorate, Yasir Zaky, attorney general for the (...)
The thorny question of how to divvy up Nile water resources is ruffling feathers among Nile Basin countries, writes Mohamed Hafez
When countries at the sources of the Nile decide that it's time to set new quotas in order to keep those downstream (...)
Mohamed Hafez looks at the southern secessionist drive in Yemen from an economic perspective and finds the southerners have a good cause
THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOVEMENT: Land and property seizures, monopolisation of wealth, worsening (...)
There is an urgent need for the government to reach out to the southerners, not to try to bully them into submission, now that the Houthis have been quelled, insists Mohamed Hafez
Three days after a fiery speech in the Police College, Yemeni (...)
The Yemeni government now has the blessing of the West and, along with it, the promise of arms and economic aid, says Mohamed Hafez
The London conference on Yemen on 28 January brought together 21 countries and five international agencies. London (...)
Yemen's slide into chaos is sending shock waves throughout the region and even the world, documents Mohamed Hafez
For some time now, Yemen has endured several crises on both the state and societal levels, casting doubts on the viability of the (...)
Mohamed Hafez Abdel-Meguid* asserts that a genuine national dialogue in Yemen is its last chance to survive
On 24 December 2009, Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for a national dialogue with all political forces in the country, to be held (...)