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By Shahira Amin – Al Monitor –  When Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, then defense minister, gave a televised speech on July 3, 2013, announcing that President Mohammed Morsi had [...]

By Ahram Online – The visit is aimed to set the ground for next month’s visit by President El-Sisi Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will head to Washington DC on Sunday in [...]

By Khalid Hassan- Al Monitor – Brig. Gen. Mohamed Samir, a former spokesman for the Egyptian armed forces, assumed the position of director general at Al-Aseema Television Network Jan. 15, [...]

By Abdelaziz Al-Sharafy – Al-Watan American historian and analyst Daniel Pipes said he expects that the bill put forward by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a [...]

By Al-Masry Al-Youm – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s latest statements to Egypt’s Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb have publically revealed disagreement and tension [...]

By Eric Trager – Foreign Affairs –   Six years ago today, tens of thousands of Egyptians descended on downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square demanding “bread, freedom, and social justice.” [...]

By POMED – On November 29, Egypt’s parliament approved a restrictive new law to govern the country’s NGO community, which decried the law as an effort to “subordinate” [...]

By Peter Hessler – The New Yorker President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has unwittingly revealed more about his country’s political structures than anybody could have imagined. The Egyptian [...]

Al Monitor – “I want to tell you that we’ve been concerned with controlling the media from the very first day the army took over power in 2011,” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is [...]

By Office of Congressman Chris Smith – Just days before Christmas, a leading human rights lawmaker, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04) went to Iraq to witness first-hand the plight of Christians who [...]