I remember Albert Einstein's definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I've been thinking about this quote in relation to the recent bizarre behavior of all the parties involved in the (...)
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that "apparently amount to war crimes" during an 11-day war against Hamas in May.
The international human rights organization issued its conclusions after (...)
On 26 July 1956, president Gamal Abdel- Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal. In his annual address to the nation from Manshiya Square in Alexandria, he said that the famous canal would now become Egypt's exclusive property. Until that point, Egypt (...)
The recent spike in tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah have led some political analysts to notch up their forecasts of a war between the two to "impending".
They base their predictions on the broader area of friction (...)
Israel has been reinstated to the African Union two decades after it was ousted from the 55-nation pan-African bloc shortly after the union was formed in 2002 under pressure from the then Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi.
Today Israel celebrates what (...)
The Palestinian Ministry of Works, in cooperation with Egyptian technical and engineering teams, will soon complete removing the rubble from the latest Israeli military onslaught on the Gaza Strip (10-11 May). This is a record time compared to (...)
The Israeli military said its artillery shelled southern Lebanon early Tuesday after two rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
Israel's army said in a statement that aerial defenses intercepted one of the rockets, and the second (...)
إن الغوص في أكثر مستويات التحليل عمقاً هو أمر من شأنه أن يخبرنا بأن النمط الإدراكي المهيمن والمُسيطر على أذهان أغلبية المتدينين داخل الكيان الصهيوني في لحظته الراهنة، والمُشكِّل لوجدانهم الجمعي نحو العرب عامة والفلسطينيين خاصة، هو باعتبارهم نفايات (...)
إن الغوص في أكثر مستويات التحليل عمقاً هو أمر من شأنه أن يخبرنا بأن النمط الإدراكي المهيمن والمُسيطر على أذهان أغلبية المتدينين داخل الكيان الصهيوني في لحظته الراهنة، والمُشكِّل لوجدانهم الجمعي نحو العرب عامة والفلسطينيين خاصة، هو باعتبارهم نفايات (...)
Israel's foreign minister announced Monday he will soon visit Morocco on a trip aimed at cementing the budding diplomatic ties between the two countries.
The trip by Yair Lapid, expected in mid-August, will mark the first visit to Morocco by an (...)
Brief clashes erupted on Sunday between Israeli police and Palestinians at Al Aqsa mosque over visits by Jews to the compound revered in Judaism as the site of two destroyed Biblical temples.
No serious injuries were reported in what police (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned, on Sunday, the renewed violations in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound by Israeli extremists under the protection of Israeli forces.
Ahmed Hafez, Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, affirmed (...)
The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday become the first Gulf state to open an embassy in Israel, as its envoy hailed the trade and investment opportunities that closer ties would bring at a flag-raising ceremony also attended by Israel's (...)
The UAE opened its embassy in Israel, on Wednesday, in an official ceremony that marked the latest step under a normalisation agreement brokered by the US last year.
The UAE's Ambassador to Israel Mohammed Al Khaja described the opening of the (...)
China had never been remote from the history of our generation. Our political conscience opened with recent memories of the liberal phase in modern Arab history, with its blend of monarchy, the British occupation and the independence struggle. It (...)
On his first foreign trip since his enthronement last year, the Sultan of Oman Haitham Bin Tariq Al-Said landed in Neom – northwest of Saudi Arabia – on Sunday. This is also the first visit by an Omani ruler to Saudi Arabia in many years.
All (...)
We were sitting in a café watching one of the Arab satellite TV channels when one person referred sarcastically to an analyst being interviewed on a talk show. "These experts make fortunes without putting in much effort," he said. My attempts to (...)
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 (...)
Egypt and the US have started work on creating a path to jumpstart negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis in an effort to reinforce calm in the region and defuse the recent rising tensions.
The current regional and international (...)
In a meeting on Tuesday, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell tackled the latest developments in several issues of mutual concerns, including the (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry delivered on Monday a message from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to President of the European Council Charles Michel in a bilateral meeting in Brussels.
Shoukry delivered El-Sisi's greetings to Michel and (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed cooperation in the fields of emigration and asylum as he met on Monday with European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson in Brussels.
Shoukry and Johansson discussed means to support (...)
Israel said on Sunday it will begin offering a booster shot of Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) vaccine to adults with weak immune systems but it was still weighing whether a third round of shots should be given to the general public.
The rapid spread of the (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry affirmed to his Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, on Sunday the need to move urgently towards breaking the current stalemate between the Palestinians and Israel.
The meeting came on the sidelines of Shoukry's (...)
SpaceIL, the nonprofit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed on the moon two years ago, said Sunday that it has secured $70 million in funding to make a second attempt at a lunar landing.
SpaceIL said the new pledges means that it has raised (...)
