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What does Tillerson’s ouster mean for the Arab world? Newly-appointed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be taking up his new jobs s the US faces “array of delicate and potentially dangerous” foreign policy issues, the Washington Post says. Among them is the Arab Quartet’s ongoing spat with Qatar, which Trump is hoping to resolve […]
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World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
Physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking passed away yesterday at the age of 76, after a 55-year battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Hawking was “an iconic figure in both the scientific community and in popular culture, known for his keen mind and humor, as well as his striking physical challenges … Among his most important scientific […]
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Western Desert emerging as frontier in fight against terrorism
With another slow night on Egypt in the foreign press this morning, the conversation was dominated by the Sinai operation and the elections. The Western Desert is emerging as a new frontier in the global fight against terrorism, Sudarsan Raghavan writes for the Washington Post. Raghavan says terrorists linked to Daesh and Al Qaeda “are […]
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Regional chaos has given Egypt an opening to act without facing Western reprimand
Regional chaos has given President Abdel Fattah El Sisi an opening to take “aggressive measures” to stabilize Egypt without facing reprimand from the West, David Emeka Ogbogu writes for MarketMogul. “Pushing Sisi into political turmoil or into the hands of America’s adversaries would be disastrous for the West...Cairo knows this and has thus chosen to […]
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Egypt has yet to respond to British MPs’ request to visit Morsi in prison
A UK MP is warning Egypt that it has yet to respond to British lawmakers request to visit ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in prison, Anadolu reports. MP Crispin Blunt said that Morsi “is not an ordinary prisoner” and that his allegedly deteriorating health condition lead to “wider consequences.” A group of British parliamentarians had […]
Posted inOn Deadline
A fatwa regulation law is necessary to avoid extremist ideas
Ahram Gate’s Ahmed El Berry urges the House to speed up the approval of a new proposed law to regulate the issuing of fatwas [religious advisory opinions], arguing that it would be a main pillar in the fight against extremist ideology and a significant step towards a new religious discourse. Not to mention that such […]
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Ballerina Magda Saleh’s career and the history of Egypt’s politics
Egyptian ballerina Magda Saleh’s life and career, which reached its zenith as a guest star in Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, can be traced alongside Egypt’s political history, Brian Seibert writes in a profile for the New York Times. Saleh danced her dream role, Giselle, in Moscow in “an East-meets-West tale of Cold War cultural politics, [which] […]
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Egypt rejects EU’s “unfounded allegations” on human rights
EU countries including Germany, Finland, and Denmark voiced their concerns about Egypt’s human rights record yesterday during a UN OHCHR’s general debate. The countries accusations included restricting civil society and the systemic silencing of the media. This came as UN human rights experts strongly condemned on Tuesday a decision by the Egyptian prosecutor to seek […]