Italian oil major, Eni, announced this week that it has made three new oil and gas discoveries in the Meleiha region of western Egypt. The new discovery further adds to Egypt’s recent announcement that it expects to become self-sufficient in …
Read More »Egypt-Ethiopia row: The trouble over a giant Nile dam
The latest talks to resolve the dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over the future of a giant hydropower project on the Nile River are due to resume in Washington later. By Basillioh Mutahi, for BBC News (*) Last year a …
Read More »The rise and fall of Egyptian Arabic
Once the lingua franca of the Arab world, Egypt’s dialect is in decline along with the country’s cultural and political leadership .. By A.V. , for Foreign Policy (*) THE END of January marks the start of the Cairo International …
Read More »Muslim cleric faces lawsuits after describing Christians and Jews as followers of “corrupt” beliefs
Press Agencies – Egypt – Prominent Islamic cleric and former deputy minster in the Endowments Ministry Salem Abdel Galil faces a lawsuit accusing him of contempt of religion and threatening national unity after he claimed last Thursday that Christians and …
Read More »Revolution or Regression? Prospects for Egypt following Sharm el Sheikh
After two mass movements (January 2011 and June 2013), two ousted presidents (Mubarak and Mursi) and the formal disbanding or clampdown on their respective political organisations, three constitutions, seven elections, four years of demonstrations, street clashes, strikes, and more recently …
Read More »The Economic Situation of Egypt on The Fourth Anniversary of the Revolution
Four years after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, it is still difficult to kick-start the Egyptian economy. Indeed, the situation remains quite worrying. In addition to a continuously increasing population, political instability, serious security and terrorist threats, energy and environmental …
Read More »A Pharaonic Project Around the Suez Canal for 2015, a Chance for Egyptian Economic Crisis
Water is a crucial element for the survival of man in the world and particularly in the Middle East and an unavoidable aspect of development. Circulation of men, goods and boats also need the water cross countries. The Suez Canal was one of …
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