Al-Ahram Weekly - Egypt

Moves on securing wheat

The government has raised the procurement price of wheat to encourage farmers to increase production and expand cultivated areas

INTERVIEW: The work of the Red Cross in Gaza

The International Committee of the Red Cross is prioritising the restoration of essential services in Gaza, its head of delegation in Israel and the Occupied Territories Julien Lerisson tells Al-Ahram Weekly.

Egypt intensifies diplomacy to restart US-Iran talks

Egypt is intensifying diplomatic efforts with regional partners to restart the US-Iran negotiations and avert further regional conflict

Madbouli defends war measures

The government has been implementing multiple policies to deal with the economic impacts of the Iran war, according to a parliamentary statement by Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli this week.

New competition law overhauled

Significant amendments to the new Competition Protection Law were approved by the House of Representatives this week.

Cairo’s diplomatic balancing act

Egypt is making intensive efforts to extend the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran and to end to the war.

Peace-led diplomacy

Cairo is charting pathways to peace amid today’s intensifying global turbulence, Egyptian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ihab Awad Shehata tells Sahar Zahran in New York.

Egypt new councils law in the pipeline

A new local councils law may be on its way to the statute book after years of waiting.

Economic repercussions of the war

Safeya Mounir examines the effects of the US-Israel war on Iran on different economic sectors in Egypt.

Egyptian diplomacy scored

Egypt’s low-profile diplomacy helped spare the region an apocalyptic moment, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

No Egyptian housekeepers overseas

Female workers are banned from domestic work abroad

More cooperation between Egypt and Russia

Egyptian-Russian dialogue remains vital both at the bilateral level and for coordinating on broader regional developments

Re-engaging with Hamas on Gaza

A Hamas delegation was in Cairo for talks with Egyptian and international officials.

Bracing for the fallout from the war

The two-week truce may have halted the fighting, but Middle East tensions continue to ripple through global markets, Sherine Abdel-Razek examines Egypt’s moves to contain the fallout.

Rain checks

Amid a season filled with holidays and rain breaks, teachers and professors scramble to finish the curricula.

Walking away the years

Older participants joined a walking rally in the Cairo district of Heliopolis last week, helping them to feel more active and connected in their senior years.

Did a second Sphinx exist on the Giza Plateau?

For centuries, the Giza Plateau with its towering Pyramids and the Great Sphinx have been magnets for speculation, fuelling imaginative theories.

INTERVIEW: ‘No one is immune to the repercussions of the war’

Deputy Director of the Egyptian Centre for Strategic Studies Major-General Mohamed Ibrahim Eldawiry, a former deputy director of the General Intelligence Service, explains the repercussions of the Israeli-US war against Iran on the volatile Middle Eastern landscape to Ahmed Al-Deeb.

INTERVIEW: Stopping the war, shaping the aftermath

Egyptian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tamim Khallaf outlines Egypt’s strategy of de-escalation, regional coordination, and a cautious eye on what may come after the guns fall silent in the Iran war to Samar Al-Gamal

Brotherhood terrorist arrested

The arrest of terrorist operative Ali Abdel-Wanis on charges of plotting to assassinate President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi has dealt a new blow to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood

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