Reporting from Cairo, Egypt It seems that the OPEC+ decision to reduce oil production by 2 million barrels per day caused confused American reactions. The US decision to withhold $75 million in military aid allocated to Egypt, about a month after withholding $130 million of same aid, is one manifestation of this confusion. Shuffling the cards Withholding aid came after ...
While Egypt is witnessing initiatives from the authority to contain the state of discontent in the street caused by economic pressures on citizens, such as the release of groups of people imprisoned for political reasons and those not involved in violent crimes, as well as the start of the national dialogue work called for by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi last ...
Egypt is now experiencing a real economic crisis, reflected in sequential rises in commodity prices and the decline in the country’s fixed foreign exchange reserves, which has caused a significant drop in the value of the pound against the dollar. Despite what the Egyptian media say, that the crisis is one of the results of the disruption in supply chains ...
The effects of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine are being felt in the Eastern Mediterranean just as they are throughout the rest of the world. The equation, formed by the complete rupture of Russian-European relations, leads the countries of the region to new options. The new situation in the Eastern Mediterranean Although the relations between Russia and Israel started ...
In recent weeks, the Middle East region has witnessed a number of meetings and summits that have raised eyebrows and questions, against the background of their multiplicity, diversity and the nature of their parties. Meetings and speculations In Sharm El-Sheikh, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed ...
United World Internation expert Onur Sinan Güzaltan searched the answer of the question above in an article he has written for the Iranian Council for Defending the Truth. Below we document Güzaltan’s article as published. As new alliances are being born all over the world as a result of the already-existing decline of the United States, the centuries-old disputes between ...
By Nardine Ali / Cairo Transporting Israeli gas to Lebanon via Egypt, Jordan and Syria as the most recent US move to cut Iranian influence? On September 8, energy ministers of four Arab countries convened in the Jordanian capital of Amman to set a plan to save Lebanon from the worst economic crisis witnessed by a country since the 1800s. ...
By Nardine Ali / Cairo Guinea: In times of uncertainty, Cairo plays it safe. In an endless series of military coups in the African continent, Guinea has witnessed the latest episode, when the 83-year-old President Alpha Condé was overthrown by the 41-year-old former French legionnaire, Col. Mamady Doumbouya on September 5. “The army had little choice but to seize power ...
On December 17, 2010, Tunisia witnessed huge demonstrations against the rule of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali following an incident where a vegetable seller burned himself after his goods were confiscated by the police. The massive and continuous demonstrations succeeded in toppling the authoritarian regime led by Ben Ali within less than a month of the incident. Many countries ...
A photo with a vague caption: The secret behind Mohamed bin Salman’s secret visit to Sharm El Sheikh On June 11, President Abdel Fatah Al Sisi surprised his followers with a photo of him with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, announcing that they met on the same day at his presidential residency in the coastal city on the ...