Egypt

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat acknowledges applause during a Joint Session of Congress in which U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced the results of the Camp David Accords, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., September 18, 1978. Library of Congress/Warren K. Leffler/Handout via REUTERS

What Anwar Sadat’s murder 40 years ago meant for the Middle East

Friday, October 1, 2021

Syrian artist Khaled Barakeh, 44, stands amid his installation "The Muted Demonstration" outside a Koblenz court during the first trial against suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, in Koblenz, Germany, July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

How Western policymakers can engage the new Arab diasporas

Noha Aboueldahab

Friday, July 16, 2021

Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Baghdad, Iraq, June 27, 2021. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan: A new partnership 30 years in the making?

Katherine Harvey and Bruce Riedel

Friday, July 2, 2021

Palestinians inspect damaged buildings that were hit by Israeli airstrikes during the recent military conflict between Israel and the Palestinian enclave controlled by Hamas. Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on the ceasefire after days of fighting in which around 230 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes and 12 people in Israel were killed by rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.

Congratulations on the ceasefire. Now the hard work begins.

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Friday, May 21, 2021

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi speaks during a joint press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Francois Hollande at the presidential palace of al- Orouba for the official visit of the French president, Cairo on April 17, 2016. Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2016. Photo by Etienne Bouy/ABACAPRESS.COM

The needed reset for the US-Egypt relationship

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Zaki El-Dine, 24, a brick-maker, pours water from the Nile river onto a patch of mud to make bricks on Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan, February 12, 2020. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "BENSEMRA NILE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

The controversy over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

John Mukum Mbaku

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak attends a meeting with Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani at the presidential palace in Cairo December 11, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo

Hosni Mubarak’s risk-averse reign brought Egypt to calamity

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam is seen as it undergoes construction work on the river Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia September 26, 2019. Picture taken September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Why Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan should ditch a rushed, Washington-brokered Nile Treaty

Addisu Lashitew

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

American soldier reads a newspaper in the shade under a U.S. Marine tank in Beirut, Lebanon. / Library of Congress

Beirut 1958: America’s origin story in the Middle East

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Demonstrators carry national flags during an anti-government protest in Tripoli, Lebanon October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim - RC1D594342A0

No going back: How America and the Middle East can turn the page to a productive future

Wednesday, October 23, 2019