Iconic Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, has died today at the age of 87 in his home in Harefield outside of London, leaving behind a rich poetic legacy with 40 works of poetry and a dozen of prose, literary criticism and a memoir.
Youssef died on Saturday (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed Egypt's foreign policy on a number of regional files, including Egyptian support for the Palestinian cause, relations with Turkey and Qatar, and stances on ending the crisis in Libya during an (...)
Lawmakers in Cyprus on Thursday elected a woman to the country's second most powerful political post for the first time since its founding as an independent republic in 1960.
Annita Demetriou was elected parliamentary speaker on the second ballot (...)
When US President Joe Biden made his first phone call to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since taking office, it was not to discuss how to patch up relations. It was essentially a courtesy call to notify Erdogan that Biden planned officially (...)
When Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi was sworn in as president of Egypt on 8 June 2014 he pledged that he would work to improve the standard of living for Egyptians and restore stability after three years of political turmoil and security lapses.
President (...)
Egypt's Defence Minister Mohamed Zaki and Chief of Staff Mohamed Farid discussed joint cooperation with Cypriot armed forces as they met on Sunday with with Demokritos Zervakis, the chief of the Cypriot National Guard.
Zaki and Farid received (...)
Greece and Turkey pledged on Monday to smooth differences which erupted into a public spat between their foreign ministers, announcing a meeting between President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at next month's NATO summit.
The (...)
When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of 3,500, the (...)
When I entered the title of this article into Google, the search engine came up with 3,640,000 history books, historical novels and poems glorifying a battle or lamenting its aftermath. In Arab political literature, there is only one work (that I, (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry met, on Saturday, with his Cypriot counterpart Nikos Christodoulides to share views on advancing cooperation between the two countries.
During the meeting, the two ministers also discussed methods of (...)
Egypt's defense minister General Mohamed Zaki travelled to Cyprus on Tuesday to attend trilateral talks with his Cypriot and Greek counterparts to bolster military cooperation.
According to an official statement, Egyptian armed forces spokesman (...)
The ramifications of the meeting between diplomatic delegations from Turkey and Egypt in Cairo on 5 and 6 May — the first such meeting since 2013 — continue to intrigue analysts.
At the end of the two days of political consultations Cairo and Ankara (...)
Libya's top diplomat Monday called for the departure of foreign forces and mercenaries from the North African country as it heads toward elections later this year.
Najla al-Manqoush, foreign minister of Libya's interim government, urged Turkey to (...)
Europe has seen a chorus of condemnation for Turkey's behaviour in the Eastern Mediterranean, Libya and Syria. The sole discordant note comes from the Ukraine whose Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, has praised Ankara for the actions it has taken as a (...)
Egypt retrieved two smuggled artefacts dating back to the Greek and Roman eras from Italy amid ongoing efforts to recover stolen artefacts from abroad, a foreign ministry statement read on Thursday.
Egypt's Ambassador in Rome Hisham Badr received (...)
It was the ancient Greek historian Herodotus who said that Egypt is "the gift of the Nile," an observation that is as true today as it was when he visited the country some 2,500 years ago.
One of the things that struck Herodotus most when he visited (...)
In a step aimed to ease tensions with Egypt, a delegation led by Turkey's deputy foreign minister will visit Cairo in early May, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said last week. The delegation will lay the groundwork for a later meeting (...)
The Arab states that emerged from the end of the Ottomans' rule following World War I have always had uneasy relationships with Turkey, which is largely seen as the continuation of the Ottoman Empire and a troubled Ottoman-Arab history.
Over the (...)
Greece cannot ignore its differences with Turkey over territorial disputes in the Mediterranean and other issues but while a solution is difficult, it is not impossible, its foreign minister told a newspaper on Sunday.
The two countries are NATO (...)
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will hold talks in Cairo on Sunday with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias.
The talks are expected to tackle means of enhancing bilateral ties as well as Egypt-Greece-Cyprus cooperation.
The two sides will also (...)
Israel and Greece have signed their biggest ever defence procurement deal, which Israel said on Sunday would strengthen political and economic ties between the countries.
The agreement includes a $1.65 billion contract for the establishment and (...)
Greece's centre-right government said on Friday it wanted a "positive agenda" with Turkey despite differences, a day after their foreign ministers clashed during a news conference, while President Tayyip Erdogan defended Ankara's response.
The (...)
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said he will discuss all disagreements between Turkey and Greece in a meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Ankara on Thursday and that it was important for the NATO allies to maintain (...)
The National Bank of Greece (NBG) is terminating its activities in the Egyptian market after having submitted a formal request to the Central Bank of Egypt, according to Greek news outlet Business Daily.
NBG's decision comes after years of (...)
The recent Suez Canal crisis uncovered a hidden facet of the economic interests of other countries, who raced to make gains at the expense of Egypt's predicament when the canal was blocked by the giant Japanese cargo ship the Ever Given for a (...)
