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    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Eighteen Days in October — how Israel turned the tide

      An enthralling account with contemporary resonance examines how Israel regained the initiative in 1973’s Yom Kippur war

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Emerging markets
      Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      Egypt announces $1.9bn sale of state assets

      First significant privatisations aimed at raising foreign currency revenue to shore up its pound

      An engineer watches as molten iron is poured into a container at Ezz Steel’s factory in Sadat City, Egypt
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Turkey and Egypt upgrade diplomatic ties as relations thaw

      Ambassadors appointed to each other’s capitals for first time in a decade after rupture over coup in Cairo

      Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, shaking hands at the football World Cup in Qatar last year
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Critics of Egypt’s regime given rare platform ahead of elections

      Opposition hopes ‘National Dialogue’ will prompt concessions but activists say it is aimed at polishing the state’s image

      Anti-government protesters in Cairo in 2019
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      EU immigration
      Greece prosecutes Egyptians for alleged role in migrant shipwreck

      Nine men deny human trafficking in sinking that killed 81 and left hundreds missing

    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Israel
      Three Israeli soldiers shot dead on Egyptian border

      Egyptian assailant was killed after Israeli military went in search of comrades

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Ziad Bahaa Eldin
      Egypt must face reality and reform to build on its success stories

      The need is to transform the minority of successful Egyptian companies into an overwhelming majority

      A woman walks out of a currency exchange shop displaying a giant US dollar banknote
    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      News in-depth
      Egypt’s exchange rate uncertainty stifling business, say entrepreneurs

      Industries struggling to fund imports and lure investors amid foreign currency crisis

      People crowd a street in Cairo, Egypt
    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Was Cleopatra black or white? The answer is neither

      Modern categories had no meaning in the ancient world and even now evolve as society, the state and the market dictate

      Illustration of a board with three bodies painted on it - a man in a suit, Cleopatra and a US founding father -  and three holes where the faces should be and Stephen Bush looking through all three holes
    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      News in-depthSudan
      Sudanese fleeing terror in Khartoum make perilous journey to Egypt

      Traumatised families speak of worsening conditions in Khartoum as they seek refuge in neighbouring states

      Passengers fleeing Sudan arrive at Wadi Karkar bus station in Aswan, Egypt
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Egypt struggles to lure Gulf buyers in state asset sell-off

      Cairo’s allies have shifted from handing out traditional support to seeking commercial deals and demanding reforms

      Cairo skyline
    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US defence secretary warns of ‘unthinkable’ Iran-Russia military ties

      Lloyd Austin uses Middle East visit to stress Washington’s commitment to the region

      US defence secretary Lloyd Austin, centre left, meets Jordan’s King Abdullah, centre right, in Amman on Sunday
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Syria
      Egyptian official meets Assad as Arab nations re-engage with Syria

      Rare visit by Cairo’s foreign minister is latest signal that regional leaders are moving beyond policy of isolation

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      Egypt’s economic woe spreads across all classes

      Sixty per cent of population deemed poor or vulnerable as inflation and currency crisis bite

      A shopper walks through a food market in Alexandria, Egypt
    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Yezid Sayigh
      Sisi cannot ignore the Egyptian military’s economic role forever

      Cairo’s agreement with the IMF commits it to reducing the presence of the state in numerous sectors

    • Sunday, 22 January, 2023
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      Egypt releases prominent businessmen detained on terrorism charges

      Safwan and Seif el-Din Thabet had been held for about two years without charge

      Safwan Thabet with his son, Seif el-Din Thabet
    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Egypt’s deepening economic crisis

      Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies

      A woman carries bread down a lane in Cairo. With an estimated 60mn people living below or just above the poverty line, the state is already failing its citizens
    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Egypt’s pound plunges to new low as authorities try to stem currency crisis

      Country has shifted to more flexible exchange rate as part of $3bn IMF rescue deal

      Customers shop for fresh produce in Giza, Egypt
    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Egypt vows to cut military’s outsized role in economy under IMF bailout

      Al-Sisi regime agrees to reforms over state ownership in the face of financial crisis

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Egypt’s pound sinks to new low in biggest fall since October devaluation

      North African country agreed to let its currency fluctuate as part of $3bn IMF deal

      Egyptians and tourists in a street in Cairo
    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      ‘There are no dollars’: foreign currency crunch hits Egypt’s economy

      Cairo says banks will soon be able to help importers clear backlog of goods at ports worth $9.5bn

    • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
      Ruchir Sharma
      The easy money era is over but world leaders have not got the memo

      Free-spending governments are being punished if they don’t abandon unorthodox policy

      Workers carry oranges at a fruit market in Lahore
    • Saturday, 26 November, 2022
      COP27
      COP27 delegates rubbed shoulders with energy executives ready to cut deals

      Climate change summit turned into a ‘trade fair’

      Attendees listen to Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, in a session during the Saudi Green Initiative forum near the COP27 climate conference venue
    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      COP27
      COP27 communications group lambasted over work for fossil-fuel industry

      Hill+Knowlton Strategies draws ire from scientists for ‘incompatible’ representations

      An infographic on ‘grey’ hydrogen, produced from gas, at the UAE pavilion during the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh. The UAE will host the next COP28 summit
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