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Tag Archives: Sinai
Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 12 ( March 16 – 22)
( Solar eclipse as viewed from Cairo, via Mada Masr) Main Headlines Monday El-Sisi is confident after the investment summit Gulf allies’ central bank funds to arrive in Egypt within days Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie sentenced to death GCC … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Dam, Eclipse, Egypt, Ethiopia, Muslim Brotherhood, Sinai, Sisi
3 Comments
New Players on the Gaza Front
(Islamic Jihad’s Ramadan Shallah) The growing hostility between Egypt and the Palestinian group Hamas, especially following an Egyptian court’s verdict that … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Gaza, Hamas
Tagged Abbas, Egypt, Gaza, IS, ISIS, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Mahmoud Dahlan, Sinai, Terrorism, Turkey
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Egyptian Aak 2015- Week 10 (March 2-8)
(A combo of image grab taken from a video uploaded to YouTube on July 5, 2013 during clashes between opponents and supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. One of them, a Morsi’s supporter, Mohamed Ramadan was executed on Saturday) Main … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Egypt, Ethiopia, Mohamed Ramadan, Muslim Brotherhood, Sinai, Terrorism
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For Hamas, Egypt is now the new “Israel”
(Photo via Reuters) For the Egyptian leadership and Hamas, February was a particularly bad month. The tension between the two sides has reached tipping point. The cascade of escalating events started with a court verdict listing Hamas’s armed wing as … Continue reading
Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 9 ( Feb 23 – Mar 1)
(Members of the special forces police stand guard in front of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, March 1, 2015- via Reuters) Main Headlines Monday Egypt shuts its Embassy in Yemen over bad security Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah sentenced … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Libya, Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Turkey
2 Comments
Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 8 ( Feb 16 – 22)
(Relatives of Egyptian Coptic men killed in Libya mourn in al-Our village, south of Egypt. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters) Main Headlines Monday Egypt strikes IS in Libya Egypt launches second wave of airstrikes in coordination with Libyan military In Minya, … Continue reading
Lessons for Sinai from Yemen
(Egyptian air force chief adel Hafez with air force pilots in Yemen. 1964. wikimedia photo) I wrote this piece for The Atlantic Council’s Egypt Source, hope you like it Following the recent major attacks by militants that killed at least twenty-seven … Continue reading
Posted in Best Read, Egypt, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Sinai, Yemen
Tagged Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, Counter-terrorism, ISIS, Sinai, Sisi, Terrorism, Yemen
1 Comment
Egyptian Aak 2015 – week 6 ( Feb 2-8)
(Sunday’s football match riots. Photo via AP) Main Headlines Monday Egypt court sentences 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death Al-Jazeera journalist Fahmy’s release from Egypt jail is imminent Greste speaks of ‘angst’ over colleagues in Egyptian jail British foreign secretary … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Egypt, Football, ISIS, middle-east, Putin, Sinai, Sisi
1 Comment
Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 5 ( Jan26 – Feb 1)
(Funerals have been taking place for those killed in the Sinai attacks – Photo via BBC) Main Headlines Monday Egyptian appeals court convicts and sentences doctor in female genital mutilation case Egyptian police arrested 516 in anniversary’s unrest IS affiliate … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt
Tagged Egypt, Egyptian Army, Muslim Brotherhood, North Sinai, SCAF, Sinai, Sisi, Terrorism
2 Comments
Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 3 ( Jan 12 – 18)
(Egypt’s best known actress. May 27, 1931 – January 17, 2015) Main Headlines Monday A Libya affiliate of ISIS has claimed the abduction of 21 Coptic Christians Court acquits 26 men in “gay bathhouse” case Egyptian security arrests ISIS cell that … Continue reading
Posted in Diary of Aak, Egypt, Islam
Tagged Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, Egypt, Israel, middle-east, Morsi, Sinai, Terrorism
2 Comments