Egypt News & Analysis

Egypt-Ethiopia tensions, fueled by water conflict and the Grand Renaissance Dam, are increasingly reverberating in the wider geopolitics of the region.

A series examining the pressing political, military, and economic issues faced by key geopolitical actors around the world.

A UAE mega-deal effectively throws Egypt a lifeline at a time of mounting geopolitical and economic crises.

After a price spike that reverberated around the world, wheat markets have stabilized, even as the Ukraine war grinds on.

A high-level visit by the Recep Tayyip Erdogan marks the culmination of a years-long thaw in Egypt-Turkey relations.

An impending Israeli offensive in Rafah is creating new frictions with Israel’s long-term allies, notably Egypt, and imperiling any possibility of normalization with the Arab world.

BRICS expansion may empower the bloc and rebalance the global order, but any thoughts of replacing it remain premature.

Examining Italy’s favorable geography and the geopolitical clout that it bestows around the Mediterranean Sea. This geography once helped make Italy a major trading and naval power. Will it again?

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam remains an intractable geopolitical challenge; however, new diplomatic initiatives spearheaded by Russia and South Africa aim to make headway.

Longstanding diplomatic certainties are in flux across the Middle East, with a new rapprochement brewing between Cairo and Tehran.

Many of the issues faced by Copts today can be linked back to discriminatory policies over the ages.

Examining internal and external forces at work in the latest military coup in Sudan.

Cairo is moving to situate itself at the heart of the post-COVID global trade order.

The dam is a source of acute tension between Ethiopia and downriver states Sudan and Egypt.

Turkish actions in the Eastern Mediterranean have mirrored China’s actions in the South China Sea. And they’ve begun to produce the same kind of geopolitical response.