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El-Sissi Gives Sign of Presidential Run

El-Sissi is considered almost certain to win if he runs for president, riding on a wave of popular fervor since he ousted the country's...

Egypt Gets Demoted from ‘Emerging’ to ‘Frontier’ Market Status

Egypt’s political risk has risen steadily since the 2011 revolution. To manage the availability of foreign currency reserves in short supply since the Arab...

Egypt ‘Deeply Concerned’ as Another Citizen Shot in Benghazi

Salama Fawzy was shot by a gunman while at a grocer's in the city's Magoury area, Egypt's foreign ministry said in a Sunday statement,...

From the Pyramid to the Square

Specifically, Sisi should have brought a copy of “The Square” — the first Egyptian film ever nominated for an Oscar. It’s up this year....

Submitting Again to Mobs, Authorities Order Rebuilt Marinab Church Shut

The governor of Aswan said then that Copts were "wrong" (to have exceeded slightly the permitted height) and that Muslims had reason to "correct"...

With Cure-All Inventions, It Gets Ever Sillier in Egypt

Military spokesmen struggled to explain that the weather had been bad and the aircraft were not well-equipped for mountain duties. But by then Egypt’s...

Islamic State In Iraq And Syria (ISIS) Forces Poll Tax (Jizya) On Christians Of Al-Raqqa/Syria

In a statement dated February 23, 2014, that ISIS published in the city, the organization said that it posed three alternatives to Christians who...

Egypt’s Musical Chairs

Many assumed it was part of an elaborate manoeuvre to pave the way for the widely anticipated announcement by Field-Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s...

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Islamists Torch Christians’ Shops in South Egypt

The attack came hours before the start of a...