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It’s all Hadary, all the time as “the shootout hero” clenched Egypt a position in the Africa Cup of Nations final. See coverage in the Guardian, ESPN FC, ESPN UK, CBS and CNN by way of example. Heck, even the New York Times picked up Reuters’ piece on the match starring the 44-year-old netminder. Also […]
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Trump is in with regional leaders, authoritarians
The press (in the US in particular) is spilling barrels of virtual ink expressing its unhappiness that US President Donald Trump is palling around with Arab leaders and “authoritarians” in general. Trump looks like he’s going to be great friends with President Abdelfattah El Sisi since he seems “fine with harsh repression in Egypt,” activist […]
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Carnegie issues Middle East crises report
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace released an extensive report on Middle East crises called Arab Fractures. The report is written by Perry Cammack, Michele Dunne, Amr Hamzawy, Marc Lynch, Marwan Muasher, Yezid Sayigh, and Maha Yahya. Arab Fractures argues that “long-standing pillars of the Arab order” are collapsing and says “if any semblance of […]
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World Bank’s loan policy in developing countries is aiding climate change
The World Bank’s policy loans in developing countries are doing nothing but helping climate change settle in, a new study picked up by the Huffington Post claims. The study surveys the World Bank policy operations in developing countries including Egypt, Peru, Indonesia, and Mozambique between 2007-16, showing that “funds intended to boost low-carbon growth are […]
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Daesh seeped through the Sinai border and into the Nile Delta in 2016
Daesh has a network of operatives working beyond the borders of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt’s Nile Delta, security experts claim in the pages of Asharq Al-Awsat. Experts believe that the frequency of Daesh-linked attacks in and around the capital, including the bombing of the Coptic cathedral in Cairo, has risen because it is netting […]
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When Yitzhak Rabin and Gamal Abdel Nasser met for lunch
When Yitzhak Rabin and Gamal Abdel Nasser met for lunch: Nearly 70 years ago, there was a glimmer of hope for Arab-Israeli peace when an invitation from a group of Israeli officers in the midst of the 1948 war brought future “towering rivals” Yitzhak Rabin and Gamal Abdel Nasser together to break bread and talk […]
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Hot Tub Time Machine to a land we’d rather forget
The website of talented Egyptian photojournalist Eman Helal takes us on a Hot Tub Time Machine journey to a land we’d rather forget. We tripped over her site after coming upon Helal in a very nice New York Times piece on women in photojournalism. The site includes galleries of very powerful images from 2011, the […]
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Egypt ready to facilitate Syrian talks in Geneva
Egypt is ready to facilitate a new round of Geneva talks on peace in Syria, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abou Zeid told Sputnik. Meanwhile, Vitaly Naumkin, Russia's adviser to UN Special Envoy for Syria, said he did not rule out the possibility that Arab countries could be among the three guarantor states of the Syrian […]
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Egypt Ambassador apologizes to Morocco for black magic article
Egypt Ambassador apologizes to Morocco for black magic article: Egypt’s Ambassador to Morocco, Ahmad Ehab Gamaledin, apologized for an article in an Egyptian newspaper that calls Morocco a country of “black magic and Jinn,” Morocco World News reported. The article claimed black magic was behind Egypt not being able to beat Morocco at football for […]
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21 South Korean companies visiting Egypt to discuss potential investments
A delegation of 21 South Korean companies is visiting Egypt next Tuesday to discuss potential investments in renewable energy, construction, and tourism among others, Al Shorouk reports.