When I was living in Athens I talked to Constantine, a Greek friend, about the immigration problem. He observed that borders can be real or imaginary – or both. The El Shalatin Camel Market in Egypt I asked him to...
The multinational military drill Medusa-10 was completed last week and highlights some of the current key security and geopolitical trends in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The armed forces of Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, and the UAE participated in this annual...
The ongoing dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over a major hydropower dam project being built by Addis Ababa on the Nile River has inspired an increased spirit of patriotism among Egyptians. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Egypt — which gets...
The construction of a wall on the border between Egypt’s Sinai and the Palestinian Gaza Strip is nearly complete, after Egyptian authorities stepped up work on it with the aim of shielding Sinai against infiltration by jihadists from Gaza. Closing...
Egypt has received a new advanced submarine from Germany, raising speculation about its naval expansion and modernization plans. The new Type 209/1400 underwater craft, delivered on April 9, is Egypt’s third of four manufactured by Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. Egypt’s...
Former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak died on 25 February 2020 at the age of 91. Climbing the ranks towards the top of the national army, he was Egypt’s president for almost three decades, before losing his grip on power in...
Egypt’s counterterrorism efforts received a big boost on March 13 when Egyptian army troops succeeded in killing a senior commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Sinai. Abu Fares al-Ansari, the ISIS emir in the North...
The future of talks between Egypt and Ethiopia on the latter’s gigantic Nile River dam is uncertain after Ethiopia absented itself from a recent meeting on the dam in Washington. What Happened? The foreign and water ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia...
Intelligence chiefs from almost all the Arab states gathered in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on February 22 and 23 to discuss growing threats to the security of Arab states and to formulate improved mechanisms for cooperation and intelligence sharing....
In early February, a mysterious disease hit Nigeria with symptoms varying from vomiting to diarrhea. The unknown illness killed 15, and a senator in the country claimed that numerous people were infected within 48 hours, as the Independent reported. “By...
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