"It is utterly ridiculous to arrest anyone for waving a flag. It is utterly ridiculous to arrest anyone for their sexuality as #Egypt does," she wrote on Twitter. Mashrou' Leila has twice been ...

The Egyptian government has decreed that the country's 2.5m college students should salute the flag at the start of the academic year, in a move that has prompted widespread online mockery.

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Norwegian developer Scatec ASA has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 1 GW solar array and 100 MW/200 MWh battery storage project in Egypt. CEO Terje Pilskog says it is Egypt ...

Egypt hosts more than 756,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers from 62 nationalities. As of October 2023, the Sudanese nationality has become the top nationality, followed by Syrians. Other ...

At least three people have been killed and 49 injured in a train collision in Egypt, the country’s health ministry said Saturday. Thirty ambulances and reinforcement medical teams were sent to ...

Egypt has become the world’s leading date producer with 1.8 million tons produced this year. However, its export figures are still lagging. The country plans to invest heavily in medjool dates, which ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt ...

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The two leaders participated in a flag-raising ceremony, and helicopters flew overhead carrying the UAE and Egypt flags, as well as the flags of the different branches of the Egyptian armed forces.

Israel insists that it must retain control of the territory, a narrow strip of land that runs along the Egypt–Gaza border, to prevent Hamas from smuggling arms into Gaza from the Sinai.