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  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Cairo houseboats adrift in storm over development

    Removal of storied homes part of bigger changes that many fear will destroy heritage and green space in Egyptian capital

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Masterpiece London 2022
    Tutankhamun rises again in show looking at ancient Egypt’s cultural legacy

    The Factum Foundation’s display at the Masterpiece art fair has a digital recreation of the pharaoh’s tomb

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Energy crisis
    Israel and Egypt to boost gas deliveries to EU

    New energy deal signed in Cairo as Brussels aims to reduce dependence on Russia

  • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
    News in-depth
    Egypt looks to local farmers as grain market tightens

    Global turmoil pushes world’s largest wheat importer to boost domestic harvest

  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    InterviewFood security
    ‘Millions’ at risk of death as Ukraine war hits food supplies, Egypt warns

    Finance minister Mohamed Maait echoes UN warning that crisis could last for years

  • Saturday, 21 May, 2022
    Family fears for health of activist on hunger strike in Egyptian jail

    Group of British MPs call for release of regime critic after he spends much of the past seven weeks in ‘inhumane’ conditions

  • Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
    News in-depthTurkish politics
    Egyptian media exiles pressured by Erdoğan’s regional reset

    Turkey’s role as a safe haven for critical media in the Arab world is under threat as president seeks rapprochement

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    Egypt’s president calls for listing of army-owned companies this year

    Cairo targets partial sale on stock exchange to address economic fallout from war in Ukraine

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    Middle Eastern economy
    Saudi Arabia sends $5bn to help Egypt’s economy

    Kingdom joins other Gulf states in assisting Cairo as prices for wheat, cooking oil and fuel soar following war in Ukraine

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Egypt’s economy reels from Ukraine war

    Surging food prices epitomise deep impact of conflict on North African country

  • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
    Egypt asks for IMF support to help it weather Ukraine crisis

    Soaring grain and oil prices add to pressure on North African country hit by collapse in tourism from Russia

  • Saturday, 12 February, 2022
    Climate change
    What next after COP26? Gas crisis shadows the road from Glasgow to Sharm el-Sheikh

    Energy price rises may work against climate leaders in delivering the green policies in time for COP27 in Egypt

  • Monday, 7 February, 2022
    FintechFT
    Social media companies jump on the NFT bandwagon Premium content

    Plus, how MNT-Halan is accelerating digital payments among the unbanked in Northern Africa

  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
    News in-depth
    Netflix’s ‘Perfect Strangers’ causes uproar in Egypt

    Streaming service’s first Arabic film tops the charts but also prompts calls to ban platform

  • Saturday, 15 January, 2022
    News in-depth
    ‘City of the Dead’ faces being bulldozed in Cairo’s highway drive

    Historic graves to be removed in government building programme to ease traffic congestion

  • Monday, 20 December, 2021
    Egypt jails regime critic and hero of revolution for 5 years

    Alaa Abdel Fattah was a prominent activist during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak

  • Sunday, 17 October, 2021
    Travelista
    Top cats: five wild African escapes to book now

    Encounter the raw beauty of the continent, from the Karoo to the Nile

  • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Lives Between the Lines by Michael Vatikiotis — identity on the Levant

    This family-memoir-cum-travelogue is a paean to tolerance between faiths and communities

  • Monday, 9 August, 2021
    Gideon Rachman
    The discontents of Middle East democracy

    Struggles for political freedom in the Arab world bode ill for the global fight against autocracy

  • Saturday, 31 July, 2021
    Ben Okri
    Ben Okri: rediscovering a 4,000-year-old poem

    The playwright on an ancient Egyptian text that tackles immigration and the excesses of power

  • Monday, 19 July, 2021
    News in-depth
    How Cairo cracked down on one of Egypt’s leading businessmen

    Inside the government and military’s squeeze on Safwan Thabet and his dairy company

  • Wednesday, 23 June, 2021
    Shipping
    Ever Given owners reach deal with Egypt over Suez Canal blockage

    Agreement will lead to release of the ship that blocked the vital trade artery for 6 days in March

  • Sunday, 6 June, 2021
    The Big Read
    A new capital in the Egyptian desert: Sisi’s military model for the economy

    The army’s increased involvement is crowding out the private sector and scaring away foreign investors, say critics

  • Saturday, 5 June, 2021
    FT SeriesInflation: a new era?
    Developing economies threatened by US inflation

    Investors demand higher bond yields, posing refinancing challenge for indebted countries

  • Saturday, 29 May, 2021
    Travel
    Luxor in limbo

    With hotels and temples all but empty, a listless quiet has fallen on the ancient city — but the tourists are sorely missed

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