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From the Department of Legislative Insanity: Pending legislation may require ride-hailing apps to ensure taxis make up half of their fleets. A number of details have emerged on the Ride-hailing Apps Act that some in the industry claim will significantly disrupt operations. Among the most “disruptive” of these articles are provisions that would require ride-hailing […]
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Gov’t promises to repeal port fee hikes brought back shipping alliance to East Port Said
Gov’t promises to repeal port fee hikes brought back shipping alliance to EastPort Said: It appears that the Transport Ministry won back an alliance of five shipping lines that had ceased East Port Said operations earlier this year by promising to repeal a decision to raise port fees by as much 100%, said Yang Ming […]
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Gov’t launches e-visas at the Cairo ICT Expo, fate of visa on arrival unclear
Egypt launches e-visas at Cairo ICT: The Sisi administration officially launched electronic visa services at the Cairo ICT Expo on Sunday, Ahram Online reports. Visa applicants from 41 countries, including the US, Canada, France and the UK, will be able to apply for travel authorization online and will receive a visa electronically. Foreigners can apply […]
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CORRECTION- We had erroneously stated in yesterday’s coverage of Egyptian adventurer Omar Samra and his teammate Omar Nour’s challenge to row across the Atlantic, that the challenge was part of a competition. We’d like to clarify that no competition is being held, making Samra and Nour even more daring. Their 40-day odyssey will take place […]
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Ground control to Major Abbass
Ground control to Major Abbass: Egyptian art collective El Side Effect have struck gold with their Kawkab Tani (another planet) project, which meshes the down-to-earth Egyptian with the out-of-this-world space odyssey. Taking inspiration from the 1988 Medhat Salah song of the same name, the group has managed to tap into the esoteric in the typically […]
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Ahmed Shafik remains the leading story on Egypt in the foreign press
The political circus that is former prime minister Ahmed Shafik’s return to Cairo continues to get heavy play in the foreign press and remains the lead story on Egypt this morning. Shafik’s daughters wreaked havoc yesterday, claiming he had been “kidnapped” by Egyptian authorities upon his arrival in Cairo. UAE authorities had confirmed earlier in […]
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Egypt makes the front page of the NYT’s website
Egypt made the front page of the New York Times’ web edition this morning with the story of Esraa, a young woman who “rebelled against her religion, and now [is] on the run.” The daughter of a conservative family that belonged to the Ikhwan, Esraa decided to remove her veil in 2014 and move out […]
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Mubarak acquiesced to US demands to resettle Palestinians in Egypt back in the 80s?
Mubarak acquiesced to US demands to resettle Palestinians in Egypt back in the ‘80s? The BBC claimed on Wednesday to have obtained confidential documents allegedly proving that ex-president Hosni Mubarak had agreed to a US demand asking that he resettle Lebanon’s Palestinian diaspora in Egypt on the condition that the move come as part of […]
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Egypt’s economic development plan requires a reshuffle of the government’s priorities
Egypt’s economic development plan requires a reshuffle of the government’s priorities to speed things along, Sameh El Alaily writes in a column penned for Al Shorouk. El Alaily says tackling unemployment should be the country’s top priority, noting that a large portion of the population is unqualified to meet the job market’s needs. The state […]