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  1. Alleged POW Killings Spark Egypt-Israel Diplomatic Row

    Arab-Israeli war. The foreign ministry summoned the Israeli ambassador to express “Egypt’s anger” over the ... alleged killings. In a charged session Mar. 4, parliamentarians demanded expulsion of Israel’s ambassador to Egypt ... , withdrawal of Egypt’s ambassador in Tel Aviv, cancellation of the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty and the ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  2. Exclusive: Hamas puts forward ceasefire terms amid intense mediation

    confirmed intense US-backed diplomatic efforts by Egypt to achieve a ceasefire. On Wednesday, the tenth day ... Egypt, on a permanent basis, 24 hours per day with international guarantees it will not be closed. Third ... rejecting a unilateral Israeli truce yesterday, announced by Egypt, which many Palestinians saw as a ploy to ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 1 comment

  3. A salute to the revolution

    inspired by the continued efforts of people in Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, and Egypt to set their revolutions on ... been waiting for. Beginning with the toppling of Ben Ali’s regime in Tunisia, Egypt caught the spark ... power in Egypt, and ever since there has been horrific violations of Egyptians’ basic rights on every ...

    Jalal Abukhater - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 1 comment

  4. Deadline looms for another student trapped inside Gaza

    permitted approximately 3,300 people to cross the Gaza border at Rafah into Egypt “for humanitarian ... reasons.” Those who entered Egypt included Gazan patients, students, and an undisclosed number of Egyptians ... international baccalaureate.” While she was living in Italy, Nevin traveled to Egypt each summer to try to see her family in ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  5. Israel ditches the go-between

    the peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas being brokered by Egypt. Israel abruptly announced its ... refusal Wednesday last week to sign on to an Egypt-proposed ceasefire deal with Palestinian resistance ... officials — was hastily called back to Cairo. According to reports in the Israeli daily Haaretz, Egypt ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  6. Solidarity with Gaza brings jail

    Hussein, secretary-general of Egypt’s suspended Socialist Labor Party, has been sentenced to two years in ... 1 February while returning to Egypt via the Rafah crossing, the sole transit point along Egypt’s 14-kilometer ... interviews, he criticized Egypt’s official stance vis-a-vis the conflict, particularly Egypt’s insistence on ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  7. Ceasefire moves fading away

    the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip; and the renewal of dialogue between rival ... proceeding “positively.” Egypt and Hamas, he was quoted as saying, “shared unanimous views on the need to ... stipulates a halt to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip and to alleged weapons smuggling across Egypt’s border ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  8. Gaza war divides Arab governments from people

    and Egypt’s official position,” Ibrahim Mansour, political analyst and managing editor-in-chief of ... exceptions — to humanitarian aid convoys. “By keeping the border closed to humanitarian aid, Egypt is ... “Egypt’s shameful position does not represent the Egyptian people or Egypt’s political opposition.” Ever ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  9. Did Egypt sabotage deal over Gaza, Shalit?

    by his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, in Paris for a meeting where Egypt may have sabotaged ... wanted to impose the Israeli terms rather than negotiate a fair agreement. An indication of Egypt ... as is, Hamas has been demanding the following: 1. Egypt shall be the party responsible for announcing ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  10. How civil society pushed Turkey to ditch Israel's war industry

    two profound events in Egypt and Turkey that have sent shockwaves through the Israeli establishment. ... power In Egypt and Tunisia, inspiring victories that have come out of determined struggles have brought ... months in Egypt. In order to appease at least some popular demands, the interim government tried to steer ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 2 comments

  11. Interview: rapper Sphinx on why Egypt uprising had a hip-hop soundtrack

    Prisoner,” came courtesy of the trio Arabian Knightz, widely regarded as the first hip-hop group in Egypt ... history of hip-hop in Egypt and the Middle East, the future of the Egyptian uprising, and the role that ... Los Angeles, but my family’s from Egypt. I went out to Cairo about six years ago for vacation, and ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  12. Suheir Hammad's new poem and short film: "Into Egypt"

    feed- from “Into Egypt” (Suheir Hammad) Poet Suheir Hammad’s illuminative words have the power to strip ... redemption that she reminds us is always there. In her new poem, Into Egypt, Hammad dives into the energy of ... the current uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, holding the narrative of Egypt’s revolt in ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 08/03/2015 - 04:04 - 1 comment

  13. Video: Waiting at Gaza's border

    most of the two million Palestinians in Gaza – has been kept shut by Egypt for nearly a decade. Tens of ... only 26 days so far this year. It was partially opened just 44 days in all of 2016. Egypt has given ... occupied West Bank in its bid to reestablish control in Gaza, with senior officials lobbying Egypt not to ...

    Anonymous - 01/28/2018 - 06:29

  14. Egypt coup regime hires Israel-linked Washington lobby firm

    Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya square. Ahmed Asad APA images Egypt’s military regime, which overthrew elected ... a legally-mandated cutoff of US military aid to Egypt. A “suspension” of some US military aid to Egypt announced by ... the Obama administration last week was purely symbolic and exempted aid required to help Egypt assure ...

    Ali Abunimah - 02/12/2017 - 03:13 - 2 comments

  15. My daughter sends joy to Gaza

    imposed total closure for nearly a decade, and Egypt has kept the Rafah crossing, the main exit and entry ... in 2007. After her surgery, we were stranded in Egypt for months, along with thousands of other Gaza ... a commercial crossing it operates in coordination with Israel to let stranded people back into Gaza. Egypt ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  16. Egypt blocks travel of Gaza Freedom March activists

    on Egypt to prevent these people from entering Gaza, which has been suffering this Israeli blockade ... staging a protest outside Egypt’s Bar Association in central Cairo. “This is so contradictory,” said Nikos ... Progonlis, a Greek man who came to Cairo with his wife for the march. “Egypt declares its support to the ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  17. The anguish of a Gaza cancer patient in Cairo

    financial burdens for care in Egypt. Abed Rahim Khatib APA images It took five days before Mohammad Wadi was ... able to speak with doctors at the Nasser Institute hospital in Cairo, Egypt. Following his relentless ... a test sample from the brain or the spinal cord, are few in Egypt,” Abdel Nabi said. “The hospital has ...

    Nora Barrows-Friedman - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  18. Gaza's electricity supply hits all-time low

    territory mean the sea is polluted by huge volumes of untreated sewage. Ashraf Amra APA images Egypt delivered fuel ... Ghraieb🇵🇸 (@Omar_Gaza) July 9, 2017 Only a few miles away, #Israel & #Egypt enjoy electricity & ... electricity lines carrying power from Egypt in the south of Gaza were destroyed when violence broke out on the ...

    Charlotte Silver - 10/19/2017 - 03:01 - 1 comment

  19. Mubarak regime source of sectarian unrest

    Cam McGrath The Electronic Intifada 3 March 2011 Christians are a minority in Egypt and have been ... that without Mubarak, radical Islamist groups would gain a foothold in Egypt and wage a holy war on its ... might be surprised if they were not.” Egypt has the largest Christian community in the Middle East. ...

    matthew - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

  20. Vital health services under threat in Gaza power crisis

    from Egypt. “The current crisis is a political problem that started six years ago. The Israeli ... occupation, the Palestinian Authority ’s refusal to provide the Gaza Strip with funds, and the policy of Egypt ... said Hamas government spokesman Fawzi Barhoum. “ Ismail Haniyeh, [prime minister of Gaza] is in Egypt ...

    Maureen Clare Murphy - 02/12/2017 - 03:13

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