Egypt

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's victory in the upcoming election is all but assured. His brutal repression of dissent, however, may have irreparably...

Sisi is leading Egypt away from its traditional allies and toward a more independent—and uncertain—future.

Of the many strategic misjudgments that the Brotherhood made during Egypt’s short-lived “Arab Spring,” the Brotherhood’s belief that it could out-mobilize the...

Egypt's Coptic Christians are a scapegoated minority that has become the target of ISIS attacks in recent months. They are facing the systematic destruction of...

Transgender individuals in Egypt face a wealth of challenges, from difficulty obtaining basic treatment for gender dysphoria to discrimination from the police and...

Calculating that the regional balance of power had changed in its favor thanks to improved ties with both Saudi Arabia and the United States, Khartoum asked Egypt...

Beyond what appear to be significant human rights abuses, to date Cairo has demonstrated a stunning lack of will and competence to eradicate ISIS from Egyptian...

The United States might share some short-term interests with Sisi's government—but backing him won't advance stability or prosperity in the longer term.

European states are selling military equipment to Egypt in the hope that arms deals will help Cairo secure Europe's southern borders.

After decades of relative calm, El-Arish, the capital of Egypt’s North Sinai province, has become a recruiting ground for the Islamic State (ISIS) as civilian...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s sympathy for his Syrian counterpart have been visible for years, but he is now finally admitting to it.

The current Egyptian government’s repression of its opponents is broader and more brutal, youth unemployment is higher, the economy is in dismal shape, and there is...

The Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) protocol between Egypt and Israel, guided by American diplomacy, has given a boost to the region's security and prosperity.

Menoufia Governorate has produced four of Egypt's last five leaders—even though it is relatively poor and small. A dispatch on the factors behind the province's...

More than three weeks after the election, the American public remains divided over Donald Trump’s surprise victory. Six thousand miles away, however, one U.S. ally...

By almost every measure, conditions in Egypt are worse now than prior to the revolution. Yet Egypt’s rulers continue to focus on repression. More than three years...

The Turkish military has long been politically weak, to which its four previous coups and its abortive intervention last weekend attest.

Egypt and Hamas continue to have fundamentally divergent interests, ones that don’t lend themselves to quick fixes.

Egypt and the United States are approaching terrorism and the larger issue of extremism from markedly different perspectives.