French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a long-awaited speech on Friday, 2 October, at Les Mureaux, north of Paris, on French Muslims, Islam and the French Republic. Expectedly, the speech, which marks a turning point in the way the French state (...)
Whereas Democratic Party supporters in the US criticise US President Donald Trump for using a “rhetoric of fear” when he tells voters that he is the only one protecting the American Dream against the threat of chaos, they themselves also tend to use (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron does not shy away from confrontations or controversies. His sometimes brutal exchanges with US President Donald Trump, among others, have been testimony to a man who often says what he thinks without (...)
The United Nations marked 1960 as the Year of Africa when 17 African countries gained independence in the largest wave to get rid of European colonialism since the 15th century.
However, none of the 17 countries were in a celebratory mood to mark 60 (...)
There are times when the US and the West in general throw up their hands over the Middle East, by which they mean, when we take a closer look, the “Arab world”. Such fits of despair have their origins in the proscriptions of the historian Bernard (...)
The latest developments in the Libyan crisis, from the outcome of the meeting between Libyan stakeholders in Montreux on 7-9 September to Government of National Accord (GNA) leader Fayez Al-Sarraj's sudden decision to step down at the end of (...)
Prominent Algerian singer and musician Hamdi Benani passed away on Monday morning at the age of 77 in a hospital in Annaba city where he had spent 10 days for treatment from the coronavirus.
Many Algerian and Arab artists and entities, including (...)
After six months of suspension of international games due to coronavirus pandemic, Egypt's national football team held on to their 51st position in the FIFA global football rankings, published on Thursday, 17 September.
The Pharaohs came in seventh (...)
African countries are gearing up for a return to international football next month but with many borders throughout the continent still closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic most teams are headed to Europe to play.
Cameroon are travelling to the (...)
Algeria and Saudi Arabia's Ahli of Jeddah forward Mohamed Youcef Belaili is “50 percent closer” to joining Ahly, according his father, who is also his agent.
The Egyptian Premier League leaders Ahly are interested in having the 28-year-old Algerian (...)
Sisters in Film (SIF), known in Arabic as rawiyat (the feminine term for “storytellers”), is a collective of nine emerging filmmakers from across the Arab world.Having struggled to make their debuts, these artists all found it even harder to make a (...)
In a grand ceremony on the south lawn of the White House in Washington DC, US President Donald Trump presided over the signing of peace deals between Israel and two Gulf countries, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, this week.
Some Arab (...)
Nile waters in Sudan have begun to drop to after reaching record levels, causing severe damage in several cities, the Water and Irrigation Ministry in Khartoum said Sunday.
Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok tweeted Sudan hasn't seen similar floods since (...)
Two consultative meetings between Libya's warring factions were held in tandem over the weekend, one in Geneva and the other in Bouznika, Morocco. It is hoped these meetings will facilitate the resumption of the UN sponsored Libyan Dialogue in the (...)
Finally, and after months of anticipation, the participating teams at the Men's Handball World Championship were introduced to their group opponents when the draw was held in Cairo on Saturday at the Giza Pyramids Plateau.
As hosts, Egypt had the (...)
The construction sector in Egypt is receiving the lion's share of letters of guarantee issued by the banking system, followed by the import-export sector, said Amr Kamal, a member of the Letters of Guarantee Committee at the International Chamber of (...)
Last Thursday, the American University in Cairo (AUC) has started its first day of classes where it is implementing a hybrid teaching model aimed at lowering student density on campus.
This move comes as one of several precautionary measures that (...)
Group A: Germany, Hungary, Uruguay, Cape Verde
Group B: Spain, Tunisia, Brazil, Poland
Group C: Croatia, Qatar, Japan, Angola
Group D: Denmark, Argentina, Bahrain, DR Congo
Group E: Norway, Austria, France, NCAHC
Group F: Portugal, Algeria, (...)
The preliminary groups for the 27th edition of the Men's Handball World Championship will be drawn on Saturday.
The Pharaohs of Egypt are to be introduced to their group opponents when the draw is made at the Giza Pyramids Plateau on Saturday (...)
Eric Oechslin has been the director of the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) Cairo Office and its Decent Work Team for North Africa since April 2019, having earlier been officer-in-charge of the organisation's Cairo Office since June 2018. (...)
We are all familiar with smart TVs, but have you heard about TV shows made using smartphones?
The Egyptian media company 10 Mojo Studios is bringing us precisely that, showing that smartphones are capable of doing things that we had barely imagined (...)
Libya remains a platform for regional conflicts in the Mediterranean and North Africa. Several actors have been involved with the Libyan file in recent weeks, mainly Egypt, Turkey, the US, France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and the UAE. Many diplomatic (...)
Seven months after the conclusion of the Berlin Conference on Libya, on 19 January 2020, Libya's warring parties agreed to a ceasefire on Friday, 21 August.
In a statement, the President of the Libyan Presidency Council Fayez Al-Sarraj, called for (...)
Algeria has set Nov. 1 as a date for a referendum on a new constitution aimed at boosting democracy and giving parliament a greater role, the presidency said on Monday, after months-long protests demanding reforms.
Elected last December, President (...)
In October, the White House may well be holding an event it has not seen for a quarter of a century: an Arab-Israeli treaty normalising relations. A month away from the presidential elections, US President Donald Trump will be able to watch on (...)
