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The ceasefire that took effect in Gaza in October 2025 brought a sharp decline in the intensity of fighting, but it did not end the conflict. When the US-Israeli war with Iran erupted in February 2026, international media attention shifted decisively toward the Iranian front, while Israeli military operations continued and lines of control inside…

While warning of the rise of socialism on the left, President Donald Trump is simultaneously conducting his own experiments in economic theory, putting his nationalist spin on American capitalism. The fear of socialism is built on the idea that government intervention stifles free private enterprise, which capitalists view as the bedrock of American greatness. Trump,…

Buyback proposals ignore a fundamental reality about Islamist terrorist organizations: money doesn't moderate jihadists, it strengthens them. The post Bribing Hamas will not bring peace – it will finance the next war appeared first on World Israel News .

By Mohamed Fahmy Editor-in-Chief As the anniversary of the June 30 Revolution returns to the national calendar, Egypt marks 13 years since millions of citizens surged into the streets in an unprecedented display of popular unity. Following these massive popular protests, the Egyptian military issued a statement on July 3, 2013, ousting Mohamed Morsi. The…

  For many young Egyptians today, work no longer ends when the workday finishes. Productivity has expanded beyond offices, universities, and formal employment into nearly every aspect of daily life, reinforced by social media that deliver constant motivation, entrepreneurial advice, startup success narratives, productivity “hacks,” networking strategies, and self-improvement content.  Platforms such as Instagram, TikTok,…

Cairo’s hosting, on Sunday, August 16, 2026, of the conference “The India-Egypt Partnership in BRICS: Towards a Common Agenda for the Global South,” organized by the Embassy of India in Cairo in cooperation with the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), comes at a particularly important juncture for the future of Egyptian-Indian relations and for…

The judge who sentenced Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia last week was himself sentenced to death in absentia by the same regime years earlier. Irony in its purest form. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan defected from the Ministry of Justice in 2013 joining the judicial bodies of the opposition. His reinstatement as judge…

The White House waded into one of the hottest debates in AI this week: Open or closed? A new framework governing how the administration will review advanced AI models pre-release covers only the most powerful “closed” models, like Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT, people familiar with the matter told CNN. Open models will be excluded…

Hundreds of millions of people tune in to the World Cup in the US these days, not knowing that the roots of the ball can be traced to the ancient Egyptian civilisation. The ancient Egyptians played with balls thousands of years ago, even as the earliest known Egyptian ball, as Egyptologists suggest, was a humble…

  I returned to my family home in Liguria this year to celebrate Easter—a day that, for most Italians, is synonymous with gathering. As dozens of relatives sat around a table laden with colourful vegetables and roasted meats, a scene from a book came to mind and lingered. It unfolds like this. It is Easter…

Bedoon—Arabic for ‘without’—refers to communities in parts of the Gulf who live without nationality or the official documentation through which states establish legal identity. Their experience foreshadows a defining challenge of contemporary mobility: what happens when the ability to move depends not only on possessing paper records but on being recognised by increasingly complex digital…

If there’s a true populist issue built for this moment in time, it might be opposition to AI data centers. Lawmakers and candidates from both parties across states are increasingly positioning themselves as critics of data center proliferation. And recent primary results suggest it’s a pretty potent issue. There is, however, one big exception to…

At the heart of Egypt’s cultural landscape, a growing controversy is unfolding; one that extends far beyond contracts and professional negotiations to the very core of the relationship between creativity and commercial exploitation. Public performance rights (PPR), enshrined in Egypt’s Intellectual Property Rights Protection Law No. 82 of 2002 for more than two decades, have…

Emily Post’s etiquette book recommended 10% for a restaurant meal in 1922. By 1997, the Post Institute was noting that 15% had been the standard in elegant restaurants and was already creeping toward 20% for excellent service. The suggested tip line on a restaurant receipt in 2025 usually starts at 18% and goes up from…

While the world’s attention is focused on the wars in Gaza, the tensions between Israel and Iran, the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and the escalating rivalry in the South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific region, these confrontations dominate the headlines shaping the international system. Yet, behind these military scenes, another war is unfolding—quieter, less visible, but…

Unless Donald Trump finds a way out of his box on Iran, history may come to regard his choice to wage war as a presidency-defining error. But he has so far avoided one potential dire mistake: massively escalating the conflict past his capacity to control it. History shows that presidents who intensify wars in pursuit…

Egypt and Europe today are closer than geography or trade balances suggest. Gaza, the energy crisis, migration, climate change, and disrupted supply chains reveal, almost daily, that Egypt’s stability and Europe’s security are two sides of the same coin. This convergence now rests on a clear institutional structure. Since the Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership launched…

By Ibrahim Negm Every year, millions of Muslims leave behind their homes, titles, occupations, habits, and familiar comforts to stand before God in the plain simplicity of Hajj. It is easy to describe Hajj as a journey to Makkah, but this would only touch its outer form. In truth, Hajj is a journey from noise…

As negotiations between Tehran and Washington become increasingly deadlocked in Geneva—largely due to Iran’s categorical refusal to grant the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) access to facilities damaged during recent military strikes, including Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—the fundamental cause of the current crisis inevitably comes back into focus: The United States’ withdrawal from the 2015…

When biologists experiment on dangerous viruses, they do so under strict regulations to prevent leaks or escapes. But no such rules exist to prevent AI agents from similarly escaping – even though the consequences could be catastrophic. That’s not a theoretical concern: An OpenAI test model escaped its test environment this week and broke into…

Within minutes of a drone striking a U.S.-linked gas carrier at Egypt’s Damietta Port, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Iran was responsible for the attack. On the same day, The New York Times, citing anonymous Iranian sources, and The Wall Street Journal, quoting anonymous Egyptian sources, both reported similar allegations pointing toward Tehran. In…

By Dr Ashraf Abul Saud In geopolitical terms, a “functional state” refers to a country that is created, supported, or leveraged by a major power to advance its political, security, or economic objectives within a specific region. By this definition, Israel’s relationship with the US stands out as one of the most enduring and robust…

From the village he describes as “the back end of nowhere,” eminent political geographer John Agnew began his journey toward understanding the world through a broad spatial imagination. The boy from Haverigg — a village in northwest England — would go on to become one of the most distinguished geographers of the past two centuries.…

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings may be sliding, but one political super sense is as sharp as ever: picking a fight with an adversary he casts as the entire Democratic Party. Step forward, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. It took just days for Trump to jump on Mamdani’s refusal to roll back a campaign pledge…

Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US President Donald J. Trump is again on the stage pulling on the strings of history. This time, attention has shifted to whether Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip will disarm, something conditional on Israel…

As the world prepares to mark International Museum Day on May 18, Egypt’s museum leaders are embracing the occasion to highlight culture’s power to foster unity at a time of deepening global divisions. Osama Abdel Wareth, president of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Egypt, believes museums are no longer just guardians of the past.…

Talk of women’s empowerment in Global South countries is no longer confined to slogans or local initiatives; it has become a central pillar in shaping the global development agenda. In this context, China has emerged this year as one of the most prominent hosts of international events bringing together women leaders, policymakers, experts, and representatives…

The brightest warning light for Democrats in this year’s election is the consistent finding in early national and state polls that they are not winning nearly as large a share of voters who disapprove of President Donald Trump’s performance as they did during his first term. Paradoxically, that dynamic also could represent a major danger…

It is no longer possible to view the wars raging across the world as separate crises linked only by temporal coincidence. The international landscape reveals clear interconnections among most conflict flashpoints, as if they were pieces of a single tableau reflecting the profound transformation underway in the international system. The map of contemporary conflicts appears…

Islam Made Simple Dr Osama Al-Azhari Minister of Awqaf (Charitable Endowments) Dear readers, all honourable Egyptian people, and daughters and sons of the Arab and Muslims nations, welcome to a new journey with the twenty-first part of the Ever-Glorious Qur’an, into which we deeply delve, drawing from it its treasures and pearls, and pausing with…

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has concluded his Gulf tour, which was primarily aimed at reassuring regional allies concerned about the consequences of Washington’s latest understanding with Iran. Although Gulf states broadly welcomed the end of the recent conflict, convincing their leaders of the merits of the new memorandum of understanding has proven far…

Egypt is at a critical juncture where economic ambition must yield to prioritizing the welfare of its citizens. Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat—founder of the Reform and Development Party and Vice-President of the National Council for Human Rights—has issued a critique of the state’s fiscal trajectory, warning that years of relentless macroeconomic spending have pushed ordinary Egyptians…

Watching a Christopher Nolan film has become something of a family tradition. Whenever he releases a new movie, we make time to see it together. Last weekend, we went to VOX Cinemas at Mall of Egypt to watch The Odyssey, eager to see how Nolan would reinterpret one of the foundational works of world literature.…

By Ibrahim Negm There are moments in a nation’s life when polite language becomes a form of denial. Egypt is living through such a moment. Across social media feeds, court reports and everyday conversations, a troubling picture emerges: a society where trust is fraying, violence is normalising, and the race for “reach” is replacing the…

In the coming weeks, a new two-pound coin and revised one-pound coin will enter circulation, marking the latest update to the Livre Égyptienne. Intended to minimise minting costs, streamline fare collection and curb metal melting, the reforms appear modest when set against a state budget projected at EGP 5.2 trillion and a national output target…

President Donald Trump has not been charitable about politicians’ verbal gaffes. He once played a video of Joe Biden’s verbal stumbles at a 2022 rally. During the 2024 campaign, he ridiculed Biden for mixing up Trump and Kamala Harris, saying, “Great job, Joe!” And in 2018, Trump joined in the longstanding conservative lampooning of Barack…

I’ve been concerned for some time now about the pace of global change. ​ This pace continues to accelerate and, frankly, under the general human radar, confronting humanity with unprecedented challenges. ​ So how do we manage what we don’t know? My simple answer is to continue to dig, research, engage, and have significant persistence…

By Laila Abdel Aal Alghalban The first thing we do the moment we open our eyes, while still in bed, is stretching our hands to get our mobiles, checking messages and emails, scrolling through our favorite sites and platforms. Completely submerged by a hectic and restless drive to go on, we remain the day long…

The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is, by definition, a political framework rather than a legally binding treaty. It establishes broad principles for future cooperation while leaving crucial details unresolved. It is therefore unsurprising that the document has been crafted in a manner that allows…

The world’s modern populists are discovering a common trait that seems to serve them more than the voters they claim to champion. When scandal strikes, it’s just fresh evidence of their self-fulfilling prophecy that a shady cabal of “deep state” elites bent on suppressing democracy is out to get them. On both sides of the…

African tech has a serious gender problem when it comes to women within leadership positions at startups, yet there has been tangible progress on this front since 2023. That is according to the third edition of “Diversity Dividend: Exploring Gender Equality in the African Tech Ecosystem”, the regular deep-dive into the state of gender diversity…

Dr Ashraf Abul Saud The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and its Additional Protocols were written to shield civilians from the horrors of war, offering them strict and unambiguous protections during armed conflict. At its core, Article 49 explicitly bans the forced displacement or deportation of civilians – whether carried out individually or collectively –…

Contemporary strategic thinking has a tendency to seek answers everywhere except in the conditions at hand. Whenever the Middle East reaches an inflection point—as it does now amid the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding to cease hostilities—a familiar proposal resurfaces. Europe had the Helsinki Process, built the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and…

In his State of the Union address in February, President Donald Trump improvised a new riff on one of his favorite lines. “Please, please, please, Mr. President, we’re winning too much; we can’t take it anymore,” Trump said, suggesting some citizens were discombobulated by a deluge of unheard-of success. One war, several profound Supreme Court…

If Trump means to win the war against Iran and the Houthis to restore freedom of navigation through the world’s choke points, it is time to bring the State Department into line. The post The US should collaborate with Somaliland to break Iranian and Houthi trade chokeholds – opinion appeared first on World Israel News…

Every year, the world marks World Press Freedom Day as an occasion to reaffirm the importance of freedom of expression and the protection of journalists as witnesses to the truth. However, this year’s observance comes at a time when journalism — particularly in conflict zones across the Middle East — has become one of the…

Hours after reports emerged of a memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States, conflicting narratives continue to dominate discussions surrounding what has allegedly been agreed upon. As is often the case in diplomacy, the devil lies in the details—and in this instance, the hidden clauses may ultimately prove more consequential than the provisions…

Two new pieces of economic data, one released Thursday and one released Friday, blew another hole in President Donald Trump’s triumphant narrative about the effects of his tariffs. The figures released early Thursday showed Trump had wildly overstated the impact of the tariffs on the trade deficit. The figures released early Friday showed he also…