Egypt Unveils a New Luxury Megaproject
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Egypt unveils plans for another urban megaproject, the Wagner Group leaves Mali after three and a half years, and Ghana ...
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U.N. Estimates Half a Million Refugees Returned to Syria After Fall of Assad
The United Nations estimated in a report this week that half a million refugees have returned to Syria since the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, with another million expected to ...
Egyptian Actor Youssef Omar Joins Hong Kong-Set Action Thriller ‘Shashou’ As MAD Solutions Expands Arab Talent Packaging Strategy
EXCLUSIVE: Cairo-based MAD Solutions has added rising Egyptian actor Youssef Omar to the cast of UK-Chinese action thriller Shashou, which the company will also release across Arabic-speaking territories. “It’s an ...
Judge: Qatar Tried to Bribe Israeli Officials to Downplay Egypt’s Role in Negotiations
Several aides to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are accused of taking money from Qatar in return for portraying that regime positively and downplaying Egypt’s role as a mediator in ...
China Backs Egypt Plan to Keep Trump Out of Gaza
The Chinese Foreign Ministry declared its support on Wednesday for Egypt’s attempt to galvanize the Arab world into supporting a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, intended to prevent President ...
Egypt’s Alternative to Trump Plan: $53 Billion Rebuild for Gaza in 5 Years
Egypt has proposed its alternative to President Donald Trump’s idea of annexing Gaza and moving its inhabitants: spend $53 billion to remove the rubble and rebuild Gaza, in the same ...
Israel’s Peace With Egypt Is Starting to Crack
In this extended moment of history, events that were once unimaginable now regularly come to pass—and another item may soon join the list. Middle East analysts have started to ask ...
Israel’s Lapid Lays Out Alternative to Trump’s Gaza Plan
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid unveiled a plan on Tuesday for postwar governance in Gaza that would see Hamas removed from power and Egypt assume temporary control of the enclave ...
Skull of 30-Million-Year-Old Apex Predator Found in Egypt
25 million years ago there was an ancient carnivore with sharp catlike teeth but with doglike bodies. Hyaenodonts, as it was called, once reigned as apex predators feared by beasts ...
5,000-Year-Old Mummies Smell Pretty Good
You’d probably assume that dead bodies would smell like, well, dead bodies after thousands of years. But researchers recently revealed that, contrary to popular belief, mummies actually smell…pretty good. (Well-preserved ...
