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Mahmoud Salem

Mahmoud Salem is a writer and an analyst. On Twitter: @Sandmonkey

Twitter or Threads? Egypt's activists join but not sold on Meta's idea yet

Egypt dog

Egypt's dog breed ban leaves owners scrambling to save their pets

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with Sudan’s paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo also known as Hemedti in Khartoum, Sudan in February 2023.

Meet Sudan's web of warlords, foreign backers and their tangled alignments

Egyptian farmers harvest wheat in a village near Aswan April 26, 2009. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT AGRICULTURE SOCIETY) - RTXEF4U

Egypt's border with Libya, Sudan ripe for Islamic State expansion

Al Jazeera journalists (L-R) Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed stand behind bars at a court in Cairo June 1, 2014. The trial of the three Al Jazeera journalists accused of aiding of a "terrorist organisation" has been postponed to June 6. The Qatar-based television network's journalists - Peter Greste, an Australian, Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian national, and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian - were detained in Cairo on December 29. All three have denied the charges, with Al Jazeera saying the a

What Egypt lost in the Al Jazeera trial

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inspects the guard of honour with Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir (not seen) upon arriving at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum June 27, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah (SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3W4M0

How Sisi won the Gaza-Israel conflict

A poster of Egypt's former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is seen at a stall, with the Al-Azhar Mosque in the background, in the old Islamic area of Cairo May 8, 2014. As the Egyptian state presses its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, the man expected to become president has deployed a new weapon in the battle with the Islamists: his own vision of Islam. Sisi, the former army chief who deposed the Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi and is expected to be elected president later this month, has cast himself as

Why Islamic State's caliphate is trouble for Egypt

Egypt's kangaroo courts

Al Jazeera journalists (L-R) Baher Mohamed, Peter Greste and Mohammed Fahmy stand behind bars in a court in Cairo June 1, 2014. The trial of the three Al Jazeera journalists accused of aiding of a "terrorist organisation" has been postponed to June 6. The Qatar-based television network's journalists - Peter Greste, an Australian, Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian national, and Baher Mohamed, an Egyptian - were detained in Cairo on December 29. All three have denied the charges, with Al Jazeera saying the

Egypt's post-election scorecard: losers and winners

A soldier and policeman wait for voters at a polling station in the El Sayda Zeinab area on the third day of voting in the Egyptian presidential election in Cairo, May 28, 2014. Voting in Egypt's presidential election was slow on Wednesday after polling was extended for a third day in an attempt to boost turnout, raising questions about the level of support for the man forecast to win, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3

Sisi's camouflage campaign unravels in election's final hours

A car travels past posters of presidential candidate and Egypt's former army chief and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on a bridge in Cairo May 22, 2014. A presidential election will take place on May 26-27, which al-Sisi is expected to win. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TRANSPORT) - RTR3QDF4

Will Sisi consider military rule over Egypt's bureaucracy?

Presidential candidate and Egypt's former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks during a television interview broadcast on CBC and ONTV, in Cairo, May 6, 2014. Sisi, who is expected to win a presidential election this month, said in a television interview broadcast on Tuesday that costly energy subsidies could not be lifted quickly. REUTERS/Al Youm Al Saabi Newspaper (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) EGYPT OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN EGYPT - RTR3OCAH

Sisi’s camouflage campaign