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Archives: Egypt

Nile Valley Water Conflict: Can Egypt live with Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam?

By Dale Whittington | (The Conversation) | - - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, or GERD, under construction on the Blue Nile near the Ethiopian-Sudanese border, is now approximately 50% complete. Initial…

Is it ISIL? US Official Says Likely Explosion Happened on EgyptAir Plane

TeleSur | - - EgyptAir said the plane’s emergency devices sent a distress signal at 4.26 a.m. local time, about two hours after the previously stated radar contact. A senior U.S. Intelligence…

Surprise! Despite Syria-Iraq Turmoil, Major Mideast Economies growing 3-4%

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When you only hear bad news from a place, you form a negative opinion of it. But when I went looking for news…

Egypt arrests Hundreds to Stop Protest, including Journalists, Lawyers

Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – Egyptian security forces arrested at least 382 people in the days leading up to and during the dispersal of mostly peaceful protests on April…

What’s behind Egyptian Protests over Islands given to Saudi Arabia?

By Ebrahim Shabbir Deen | (Informed Comment) | - - The recent return of the islands of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia by the Egyptian government signals that the Sisi regime…

Thousands protest Gov’t in Egypt over Saudi Hegemony

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thousands of Egyptians came into the streets Friday in the first major demonstrations in 2 and a half years, to protest the bestowal…

5 Years After Revolution, Egyptians See #PanamaPapers as Further Vindication of Mubarak’s Ouster

By Salma Essam | (Global Voices) | - - Among the names contained in the Panama Papers, the enormous trove of confidential documents revealing how the world's elite exploit tax havens, is…

Forgetting Tahrir: The Man on Horseback and the fate of Egypt’s Revolution

Neil Serougi | ( OpenDemocracy ) | - - Why would a country that showed itself so courageous in confronting Mubarak’s repression now be content to sacrifice its hard won gains, and…

Your Tax Dollars Enable Police Brutality Abroad: Egypt

By Chris Toensing | ( Otherwords.org) | - - Washington wants to loosen aid restrictions even as security forces crack down on innocent Egyptians. Ever since the Black Lives Matter movement exploded…

Egypt Jails Novelist Ahmed Naji for 2 years for His ‘Sexually Explicit’ Novel

By Mohammed Hasan | ( Global Voices | - - A Cairo appeals court sentenced Egyptian novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji for two years in prison for publishing a chapter containing “sexually…

Anti-Orientalism: Artists 3-D Scan looted Egyptian treasure in German museum

By Cory Doctorow | ( Boing Boing | - - Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, an Iraqi/German artistic duo, covertly scanned a famous looted Egyptian treasure, the Bust of Queen Nefertiti,…

Arbitrary: Egyptian Military Court Sentences for 3-Year-Old to Life

Arbitrary: Egyptian Military Court Sentences 3-Year-Old to Life

Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – A life sentence apparently handed down by mistake to a 3-year-old boy on February 16, 2016, exemplifies the arbitrariness of Egyptian courts that are…

Despite Risks, Egypt’s Cartoonists Take on increasingly Authoritarian Regime of al-Sisi

By Mohamed Hassan | ( Global Voices ) | - - Cartoonist Islam Gawish. Photograph from his Facebook page. Photograph by Mostafa Darwish. Less than two weeks after the fifth anniversary of…

End of Research in Egypt? The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom

By Neil Pyper | (the Conversation) | The body of Giulio Regeni was discovered in a ditch in Cairo on February 2, showing evidence of torture, and a slow and horrific death.…

5 Years after Tahrir Square, Egyptian Government in Crackdown on Dissent ahead of Jan. 25 Anniversary

Global Voices Advocacy's Netizen Report | (Globalvoices.org) | - - Activists online and on the ground in Egypt have faced heightened scrutiny and legal threats from government authorities since early January, as…

Egypt: Free Journalist Hossam Bahgat, Facing Military Prosecution

Human Rights Watch | - - (New York) – Hossam Bahgat, a journalist and one of Egypt’s most prominent human rights figures, could be charged in military court after being detained on…

Who are the ISIL Fighters in Egypt’s Sinai, claiming to down Plane?

By Joanna Paraszczuk | ( RFE/RL ) | - - A [so-called] Islamic State [group] (IS) affiliate in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has claimed that it downed a Russian charter plane that crashed…

Why ISIL is a Vast Exaggeration: & No, it can’t Shoot down Planes

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in the Sinai Peninsula made a big deal of claiming they shot down a Russian airliner Saturday morning. They did…

Al Jazeera journalists freed in Egypt

John Terrett | (Al Jazeera America Video Report) | - - "Baher Mohammad and Mohammad Fahmy were pardoned by Egypt's president this morning. John Terrett has more." Aljazeera America: Al Jazeera journalists…

Mexican Tour Organizers, Buddhist Healers, Baffled by Egyptian Army Attack

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Gabriela Bejarano Rangel, the sister and daughter of the Mexican organizers of the tour to Egypt that met with tragedy Sunday, has been…