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Point-blank: Starbucks at GEM

Mohamed Salmawy

Don’t be surprised. While calls to boycott Starbucks are mounting across the globe in response to its support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, it is preparing to open its latest branch, not in Israel, but in the new Grand Egyptian Museum.

Editorial: Peacemaker Trump

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

Even before the conclusion of US President Donald Trump’s first tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates this week, the new US administration took steps in the right direction.

Sleepwalking Into a New Imperial Age

Ricardo Hausmann

CAMBRIDGE – When you look at a building, you can see its walls, windows, and decorative flourishes but not the hidden structure that holds everything together.

Egypt and Greece: Strategic partners

Ioannis Kotoulas

President Al-Sisi’s official visit to Greece last week led to the already excellent diplomatic ties between the two countries being upgraded to a strategic partnership.

Dangers of sectarianism in the Arab world

Walid M. Abdelnasser

The Arab governments must reassure members of minority communities that they are integral parts of their countries and halt any slid into sectarianism in the Arab world.

77 years after Nakba: The deafening sound of silence

Magdi El-Bittar

A new generation remembers the Nakba—not in mourning, but in defiant, unwavering resistance to injustice.

What’s happening to the Egyptian soul?

Ibrahim Negm

The Trump Factor in Today’s Middle East

Aaron David Miller and Lauren Morganbesser

As Donald Trump parades through the Middle East this week, he will encounter a very different region than the one he experienced during his first term.

The end of the post-war 'order'

Mahmoud Mohieldin

The world’s economic centre of gravity is shifting eastwards, with profound implications for the post-war economic and political order.

What to expect of Godot

Abdel-Moneim Said

Abdel-Moneim Said returns to Samuel Beckett’s famous play to analyse the present global moment.

Why an American Pope?

Harold James and Montagu James

PRINCETON/PROVIDENCE – For centuries, papal elections were also diplomatic wrangles, with the great city-states of Italy (Milan, Florence, and Naples) and then the great powers of Europe (Spain, France, and the Holy Roman Empire) tussling for influence and aiming to install a proxy pontiff.

Is a US-China trade agreement really possible?

Angela Huyue Zhang and S. Alex Yang

The White House announced on Sunday that the United States and China will temporarily suspend or lift the import tariffs they imposed on each other in April, pending further negotiations on a trade agreement.

Reading beyond the numbers

Gamal Wagdy

For decades, economists and investors alike have turned to gross international reserves to measure a country’s economic strength.

Editorial: Catastrophic moves

Al-Ahram Weekly Editorial

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a plan to fully reoccupy Gaza, claiming that was the only way to achieve his goals of destroying Hamas and freeing Israeli prisoners.

The trans-Atlantic rift

Ahmed Mustafa

US President Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Europe could change the trans-Atlantic relationship for years to come.

America is erasing the data the world needs

Shaida Badiee and Joel Gurin and Claire Melamed

In recent months, thousands of web pages and datasets have been removed from United States government websites.

Trump’s Gulf tour

Hussein Haridy

Trump’s upcoming visit to the Gulf will focus on US-Gulf relations as well as the wider situation in the Middle East.

Trump’s 100 days in the Middle East

Walid M. Abdelnasser

Trump has taken a pragmatic approach to Middle Eastern issues during his first three months in office apart from his unwavering support for Israel.

Point-blank: Trump and the Suez Canal

Mohamed Salmawy

A group of US psychologists concluded that Trump might be clinically diagnosed as a delusional psychopath, according to a report covered by the US media. His flights of fancy are certainly endless.

Palestine remains the central cause of the Arab world

Atallah Hanna

We are Christians, and we are proud of it. We belong to the Arab nation, and our first and foremost cause is the cause of Palestine.