By POMED – After the Senate Appropriations Committee markup on September 7, the committee released the text of its Fiscal Year 2018 State and Foreign Operations appropriations draft bill [...]
By Bryant Harris – Al Monitor – The Senate’s foreign aid spending panel voted today to slash military assistance to Egypt by $300 million amid growing congressional frustration with [...]
By Hatem Maher – MENA Source – The Atlantic – When President Donald Trump won the US presidential election late last year, Egyptian media coverage praising his stunning rise to [...]
By Stephen Hollingshead and Loay Mikael – The Hill – The horrors of the ISIS genocide continue, and the most deliberative body in the world is standing in the way of fixing a major [...]
By Reuters – The United States has decided to deny Egypt $95.7 million in aid and to delay a further $195 million because of its failure to make progress on respecting human rights and [...]
By Watani – Churches in Egypt have cancelled their summer activities, mainly trips to monasteries or holy sites, spiritual retreats or conventions, and in many cases trips to beaches, in [...]
By POMED – The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs released its Fiscal Year 2018 draft appropriations bill on [...]
By Christian Bischoff – POMED – The issue of U.S. policy toward Egypt has come up in four congressional hearings held in the past two weeks.[1] Members of Congress and Trump [...]
By Pecquet -Congress Pulse, Al Monitor – A bipartisan panel of experts ripped Egypt as a floundering authoritarian state April 25 and urged Congress to rethink its annual $1.5 billion aid [...]
By Judith Miller – FOX News – The Palm Sunday bombings of Coptic churches in Egypt are a tragedy for Egyptian Christians, the Middle East’s oldest and largest Christian community and [...]