Poet and political activist Ahmed Douma told Mada Masr that Cairo International Airport authorities prevented him early Sunday from traveling to Beirut — a trip he described as an attempt to “break ...
The Egyptian military’s expanding involvement in economic activities— from land acquisition and private company purchases to the rollout of commercial ventures — was flagged by the International ...
On Sudan’s eastern coast, the military-led government in Port Sudan is swiftly moving to reshape the political landscape following the appointment of a new prime minister and the containment of a wave ...
When news broke in February that an Egyptian firm named Dolphinus Holdings had signed a US$15 billion deal to purchase Israeli natural gas for supply to Egypt, the Egyptian government refused to ...
A month after his appointment, Prime Minister Kamel Idris, whose selection drew regional and international support and expression of hope that he could steer Sudan toward a new political phase, has ...
When Mada Masr visited the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees agency offices in Cairo one morning last week, a crowd of hundreds, including many elderly and visibly ill people, was gathered ...
Buried in the messages of the now infamous “Houthi PC small group” — the Signal group in which members of the United States administration discussed an impending American attack on Houthi positions in ...
Since Wednesday, Sudan’s war has extended into the far northwest, spilling into the border triangle between Sudan, Egypt and Libya as the Rapid Support Forces seized the area following the Sudanese ...
Violent clashes continue to rage across Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, disrupting civilian facilities and residential spaces in cities nationwide on Monday, a ...
Editor’s note: This piece was originally written in 2005 with the Egyptian Business History Research Center at the American University in Cairo. “A metro that moves with electricity, smoothly, no ...
In February, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree to direct the Armed Forces Land Projects Agency (AFLPA) to oversee construction of two of Egypt’s mega-projects to be built on 16,000 acres ...
In late May, the Ismailia Appeals Court ruled to evict the archbishop of Saint Catherine’s Monastery from 14 land plots in South Sinai, part of a larger dispute with the Egyptian government over 71 ...