Despite Covid-19 making even a one-off event, let alone a whole festival difficult, the fifth Sharm Al-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY, 16-20 November) took place in the South Sinai resort city. The event was initially (...)
Inflation in Sudan has risen to one of the highest levels in the world, and the country risks slipping into hyperinflation unless it gets its budget deficit and money supply under control, economists say.
The runaway prices have worsened an economic (...)
يخوض فريق الهلال مباراة قوية أمام منافسه النصر مساء اليوم السبت في نهائي بطولة كأس خادم الحرمين الشريفين.
ويتقابل الهلال والنصر على أرضية ملعب استاد الملك فهد الدولي في المباراة النهائي من المسابقة السعودية.
وكان الهلال قد تأهل للمباراة النهائية بعد (...)
Egypt's Minister of Planning Hala al-Saeed has been named best minister in the Arab world on Wednesday, being behind a plan to significantly boost the number of women in the workforce in the North African country.
The announcement was made during an (...)
The six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have recorded more than 1 million cases of infection with COVID-19, according to a Reuters tally of data published by each government.
The tally in the energy producing region of more than 50 (...)
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it launched a heavy warship Thursday capable of carrying helicopters, drones and missile launchers amid ongoing tensions with the U.S.
Photographs of the ship, named after slain Guard naval commander (...)
The last two months of each year have become an opportunity to be optimistic about the end of the war in Yemen and the start of a political settlement over the last couple of years, and all eyes now are on Saudi Arabia's efforts to use the UN as a (...)
If we take the July Revolution of 1952 as our starting point in analysing the relationship between Egyptian presidents and their American counterparts, we can argue that the personal dimension in their interactions from 1952 till today has played a (...)
Responding to his electoral victory, Iran called on US President-elect Joe Biden to return the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “Now, an opportunity has come up for the next US administration to compensate for past mistakes and (...)
Titled “An Egyptian Vision”, Hany Rizq's recent exhibition at the Picasso Gallery (which closed on 18 October) features a relaxing, monochromatic palette and a dreamy feel. In large, 120 cm by 120 cm landscape-cum-folk paintings, Rizq pursues a (...)
As the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hits, the prospects of global economic recovery are dimming, and the world is anticipating a double-dip recession.
In this context, the Arab Gulf region is particularly prone to a double squeeze from (...)
Kaspersky Security Network's (KSN) latest statistics have revealed the changing cyber threat landscape across the Middle East, including Egypt.
Egypt had the fourth highest significant rise of 38.7 percent in financial malware during the first half (...)
On Sunday an Israeli delegation arrived in Manama, a sign of newly normalised relations between Israel and Bahrain. And on Monday, in what was clearly a week of photo-ops, the delegation found its way to Abu Dhabi.
Not that these were the first (...)
The Egyptian business guru Mahmoud Mohieldin was elected unanimously as the executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and, accordingly, an IMF board representing the country and Arab states.
The Arab states represented are the (...)
Egypt's Mahmoud Mohiedin was unanimously elected as the executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Mohiedin will also become an IMF board member representing Egypt and the Arab states group which comprises Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain, (...)
As the US presidential elections approach and opinion polls tilt towards the Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden, many countries formerly allied with incumbent US President Donald Trump have started reaching out to Biden's team, among them Arab (...)
US President Donald Trump was back campaigning this week, attending a Florida rally after an almost two-week interruption since he tested positive for Covid-19.
Trump returned to the presidential race less than three weeks from polling day, (...)
Oman will re-introduce a night-time ban on movement and enforce the overnight closure of shops and public places between Oct. 11 and 24, to help contain the coronavirus, state media reported on Friday.
The restrictions will apply from 8 p.m. (2000 (...)
Oman has sent an ambassador to Syria, becoming the first Gulf Arab state to do so after they downgraded or shut missions in Damascus in 2012 over attacks by the government there on protests at the start of what turned into a war.
Oman is one of the (...)
His whole universe is a small workshop located in the popular district of Al-Sharabiya. Dozens of darboukas in different colours and materials are piled around the bed in which he rests since he spends day and night in the workshop creating those (...)
Till last January, the United Nations and the international community had a roadmap to settle the question of Palestine according to various UN resolutions inspired by and based on Security Council Resolution 242 of 22 November 1967. The Oslo (...)
This week the Israeli press was excited about a visit by Abdel-Fattah Al-Borhan, chair of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, to Abu Dhabi. For most Israeli newspapers, the visit was a prelude to a possible normalisation of relations between Sudan and (...)
He was the “third man” who always appeared in pictures over three consecutive decades of US presidents with Arab interlocutors. And he was the “fourth man” who appeared next to US presidents as they convened in closed rooms with Palestinian and (...)
Egyptian Minister of Culture Ines Abdel-Dayem received today the certificate confirming the official registration of the file "The Palm: Knowledge, Skills, Traditions, Practices" on the Representative List of Human Heritage at UNESCO.
Abdel-Dayem (...)
President Donald Trump is set to preside over the signing of historic diplomatic deals between Israel and two Gulf Arab nations that could herald a dramatic shift in Middle East power dynamics and give him a boost ahead of the November election.
In (...)
