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This Week in Egypt: Week 10-2019 ( March 4-10)

Posted on March 11, 2019 by

Top Headlines  Six Egyptians are killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash Egypt’s Sisi appoints close military ally as transport minister Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan is released after five years in prison Malaysia deports 6 Egyptians allegedly affiliated with Ansar al-Sharia radical group … Continue reading →

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Reblog: Russian missiles separate NATO allies U.S. and Turkey

Posted on March 3, 2019 by

What would President Trump ask from Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan if he were allowed to ask for one thing only? An American official talking to a group of Turks on condition of anonymity recently asked that rhetorical question and continued…

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This Week in Egypt: Week 9-2019 ( Feb 25-Mar 3)

Posted on March 3, 2019 by

Top headlines Dozens killed and injured in crash and fire at Cairo’s main railway station Cairo crash driver left train with brakes off during row Egypt’s transport minister resigns after deadly Cairo train crash Hamas members arrested in Egypt in … Continue reading →

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Twitter Thread: Palestinian fighters from Gaza who joined ISIS branch in Egypt’s Sinai

Posted on February 24, 2019 by

This is an important thread by Mahmoud Gamal on Palestenian fighters who joined ISIS’s Sinai branch:     Abd Al-Rahman Ahmed, nicknamed “Abu Bakr al-Ghazawi”, from Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, was among the wanted elements for … Continue reading →

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This Week in Egypt: Week 8-2019 ( Feb 18-24)

Posted on February 24, 2019 by

Top Headlines Egypt executes nine over 2015 killing of public prosecutor Suicide bombing kills 3 policemen near Cairo’s famed bazaar Egypt hosts milestone summit for Arab-European ties Egypt turns Back veteran New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick Saudi King arrives … Continue reading →

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Re-Blog: All what you want to know about the Egyptian new counter-terrorism unit

Posted on February 3, 2019 by

Originally posted on egyptiandefenseblog:
Unit Formation Unit-888 counter-terrorism badge In July 2017, the Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces issued instructions to establish a semi-special forces unit to participate in new tasks as combat terrorism, which considered as kind of…

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This Week in Egypt: Week 2-2019 (7-13)

Posted on January 14, 2019 by

Top Headlines  US Pompeo visits Egypt, give a speech in American University, and visit newly-opened Cathedral and Mosque Egypt deports German of Egyptian origin for attempting to join Daesh terrorist elements in Sinai Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma sentenced to 15 years … Continue reading →

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Twitter Thread: On Egypt and the Copts

Posted on January 7, 2019 by

As Egyptian Copts celebrate Orthodox Christmas, I herewith compile a thread on my personal experience regarding  how the treatment of Copts  has changed in Egypt.    I grew up in Heliopolis, #Cairo. A suburb that has church for every Christian … Continue reading →

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Social Islamism In Egypt

Posted on December 1, 2018 by

Originally posted on Nervana:
An English version of my original Arabic piece in Al-Hurra Amr Salama’s Movie’s Sheikh Jackson In recent days, in Egypt, an Oscar-nominated film was referred to Al-Azhar, a crowd of Muslim worshippers attacked a church, and an…

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The Khashoggi affair: The art of the leak

Posted on October 24, 2018 by

Originally posted on Seth J. Frantzman:
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Nick Paton Walsh articulated it well: “The role [Turkey has] taken is not that of the virtuous prosecutor, but of the exploitative politician,” he wrote on October 18 about Ankara’s…

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