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Egypt

July 2024

  • Constantine Cavafy

    Greek poet who inspired Forster, Hockney and Jackie Onassis emerges from the shadows

    The writer Constantine Cavafy was largely unpublished in his lifetime, but was revered by artists. His archive and Alexandrian home are now on show for the first time

June 2024

  • Ancient illustrations of Egyptian people and a jackal-headed god, with Egyptian language above

    Egyptian scribes suffered work-related injuries, study says

    Higher incidence of damage to hips, jaws and thumbs reveals their writing efforts may have taken a toll
  • A Muslim pilgrim prays at dawn on Mount Arafat during the annual hajj pilgrimage.

    Egypt to prosecute travel agents for ‘fraudulent’ hajj trips

    PM orders 16 companies to be stripped of licences amid hundreds of deaths, many attributed to extreme heat
    • More than 1,000 hajj pilgrims die amid temperatures approaching 52C in Mecca

    • EU-funded Egyptian forces ‘rounding up and deporting Sudanese refugees’

    • More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C

May 2024

  • Clouds of dust and dirt fly up as armoured vehicles drive through a barren landscape

    Egypt tight-lipped over Israeli takeover of Gaza buffer zone

  • Belkis Wille

    Denouncing the war is all very well – but the people of Gaza also need urgent medical care

    Belkis Wille
  • Israeli troops are seen near the border with Gaza, in southern Israel. The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it has gained full operational control of the Philadelphi Corridor.

    Israel in effective control of entire Gaza land border after taking Philadelphi Corridor in south

  • Three men stand inside a police van and one stands just in front of them. Two of the men are waving to crowds off-camera. Police officers stand facing the men with their backs to the camera.

    Greek police detain nine Egyptians despite dismissal of shipwreck charges

  • Middle East crisis live
    Israel-Gaza war: All EU donors have now resumed support for Unrwa, says foreign affairs chief – as it happened

  • Charges dropped against nine Egyptians over 2023 migrant shipwreck off Greece

  • Mediterranean migrant boat disaster: men on trial are ‘scapegoats’, say lawyers

  • The Audio Long Read
    After I was assaulted, I posted a photo of my injuries. The reaction I craved was not pity, but anger – podcast

  • Scientists find buried branch of the Nile that may have carried pyramids’ stones

  • Israel and Egypt in growing diplomatic row over Rafah border crossing

  • Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo

  • Dorset auction house withdraws Egyptian human skulls from sale

April 2024

  • Children move a jerrycan up a slope at a camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

    Netanyahu vows to raid Rafah ‘with or without’ hostage deal

  • Antony Blinken

    Antony Blinken to visit Saudi Arabia to try to restart Gaza ceasefire talks

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