Details and repercussions of the affair. By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt The “Qatar Gate” affair has shaken Israel, not only because it is yet another corruption scandal hounding Benjamin Netanyahu, even if his involvement has not been revealed, but also because it is a bribery scandal benefiting Doha and aimed at tarnishing Egypt’s image, even if the price is ...
Trump’s strategy toward the Suez Canal may unfold in the coming days. By Islam Farag, from Cairo / Egypt Since taking office last January, U.S. President Donald Trump has been attempting to reshape the global trade system. Attention has only been drawn to one aspect of this effort: his fervent desire to use tariffs to adjust the balance of trade ...
Repercussions on the Palestine conflict and beyond in the perception of West Asian states. By Mohamed Sabreen, from Cairo / Egypt The Arab world is witnessing serious challenges represented by many explosive conflicts, whether in Palestine, Syria, Sudan, or Libya, amidst a state of changes in the balance of power in the region, and new threats against the backdrop of ...
Repercussions of US President Trump’s statement on Gaza. By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt The Turkish proverb says that “when a clown moves to the palace, he does not become a king, but the palace turns into a circus.” This is the state of the rest of the world, especially the leaders and people of the Middle East as they ...
Historic background and regional context of Trump’s proposal. By Islam Farag, Cairo / Egypt US President Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt, pending the reconstruction of the sector, was merely a revealing attempt of Israel’s intentions and its desire to get rid of the original landowners, coveting their land and removing a security ...
Perspectives, expectations and doubts in Egypt. By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt The BRICS summit will be held from October 22-24 in the Russian city of Kazan, and the summit is starting amid high hopes and difficult challenges. After the addition of new countries, most notably Egypt, interest in the new bloc has increased. The BRICS leaders held a summit ...
The world is watching the developments on the Russian-Ukrainian and Palestinian-Israeli fronts with bated breath. We are not talking about limited or ephemeral wars, but about the big explosions of the process that, in the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, will end the West’s “500 years of world domination”. We are approaching the critical developments on both fronts. ...
Reporting from Cairo, Egypt Over the past two years, Egypt has been facing bleak economic prospects that have been worsening day by day. The features of its economic crisis began to take shape and worsen clearly after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in February 2022, but the flight of hot money from the country thwarted all government tricks to ...
By Mohamed Naeem The Egyptian author Mohamed Naeem published an article comparing the period of Camp David and today on the website Manassa. Addressing the current conditions centered around Israel’s aggression, Naeem concludes that “the world of Camp David is coming to an end” and “Egypt must prepare for it”. The article was translated from Arabic into English by UWI. ...
Hamas demands a ceasefire, but only on the condition that their demands are met. Who tends to accept Hamas’s terms and to what extent and with what kind of amendments and the relative political, military, diplomatic and morale powers of the sides seem to determine the final outcome of the ceasefire negotiations. Egypt, Qatar and the US are mediators in ...