-
As the number of medical staff testing positive for COVID-19 continues to climb, hospitals have closed their doors across the country
-
When Ibrahim was arrested it was a summer's day in Arish, the capital of North Sinai, and he was wearing a light t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Two...
-
When Bill Jones* and his partner arrived at Luxor Airport to prepare to fly back to Cairo at the end of February, it was the end of a two-week...
-
When former President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted of corruption in January 2015, analysts had already predicted it as a foregone conclusion. For many it was evidence that the deep...
-
Everything you need to know about Egypt’s ethnic cleansing of the Bedouin
-
When Trump announced Jerusalem was Israel's undivided capital under his so-called "deal of the century", the Egyptian public questioned whether Al-Sisi had a hand in preparing the plan. His...
-
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received the German Order of St. George in recognition of his peace-making efforts in North Africa
-
The first time Sara Mohani was arrested security forces lined her up against a wall and described her body in intimate detail. "If we find any photo of the...
-
Last week Egypt launched “Qader 2020”, a military display of ground, naval and air units choreographed to demonstrate the strength of the country’s armed forces
-
When former Egyptian MP Ziad Al-Alimi was arrested by security forces, Ramy Shaath told his wife that of the coalition of activists that organised the 2011 protests against Hosni...
-
In the midst of the 2011 uprising then newly appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman said that Egyptians were not ready for democracy. Such comments were to be expected from...
-
The Egyptian army did not have to pay tax or customs on products entering the country which made it impossible for other businesses to compete
-
Egyptian whistleblower Mohamed Ali told MEMO that he built the part of the intelligence headquarters where the cyber army was housed
-
MEMO exclusive interview with Mohamed Ali
-
On the weekend of Khawla Khalifa's birthday it was her ex-husband's turn with their three kids. He picked them up after school on Friday and she was expecting them...
-
From the late sixties up until the early eighties Palestinians formed a resistance movement to liberate their homeland and ensure the return of their refugees. A vital part of...
-
During the 2011 Egyptian revolution Bahia Shehab sprayed "no" in Arabic 1,000 times on the walls of downtown Cairo. No to dictators, no to military rule, no to violence....
-
Shortly after the profile of a well-known Sinai activist appeared in an Egyptian newspaper, the intelligence services called the journalist who interviewed him: "Why have you published a picture...
-
Four years on from his arrest one of Egypt’s child political prisoners Haitham Abdel Rahim recalls 50 days of torture.
-
Sanaa Abdelgawad and her daughter Asmaa Beltagi were in front of Rabaa's main stage when security forces advanced on the square. The area was immersed in smoke and Sanaa...
-
Last month the Egyptian government demolished Bedouin-owned houses in Tarabin village in South Sinai on the grounds that they were not “legally” owned
-
In the heart of Al-Arish, the capital of the North Sinai Governorate, Metito is building a desalination plant at the cost of $96 million. The water group, which is...
-
An exhibition in London shone a light on the loss of life which results from people being forced to risk their lives to survive
-
Late last night the UN failed to agree on a statement condemning an air strike which killed 44 refugees in a detention centre in Libya because the US ambassador...
-
Before she was arrested Somaya Nasef spent her time walking the streets of Cairo looking for medicine to administer to street children. Essential drugs like insulin and penicillin have...
-
In 2008 Mariam Ahmed and her family set off east from her homeland Egypt and landed in Saudi Arabia where they became part of the Kingdom's two million strong...
-
In 2018 a cross-party group of British MPs asked the Egyptian government for access to Mohamed Morsi amid fears that the former President's death was imminent. The answer that...
-
It was at a retrial for colluding with Hamas yesterday that the Brotherhood leader collapsed in his sound proof box and was transferred to hospital
-
In a recent Foreign Policy article Brotherhood member Yehia Hamed forecast that Egypt will soon be bankrupt if it continues in the same vein. External debt has increased fivefold...
-
In March 2015 masked men broke down the door of Khaled Saddouma's house, entered his son's bedroom where he was sleeping and dragged him out of the house without...
-
The UK's first female Prime Minister in 26 years – only the second in our history – has chosen as her farewell performance to welcome the right-wing President of...
-
On 9 March Manar Abu Naga was forcibly disappeared from her home in Alexandria along with her husband Omar and their one-year-old son Braa. "One of the neighbours told...