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Bassem Aboualabass

The high-rise commercial building serving as the modern headquarters of Banque Misr (Bank of Egypt), in Cairo on February 9, 2023. (Amir MAKAR / AFP)
February 15, 2023, 6:39 am
Strapped for cash, Egypt sells off state assets to eager Gulf nations
Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are swooping in to buy shares in national companies, while also demanding economic reform and greater transparency
By Bassem Aboualabass
A vendor counts his money at a bread stand in the Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, February 14, 2017 (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)
August 28, 2022, 10:36 am
Economic crisis leaves Egyptians in the dark
Egypt says ‘reducing lighting in streets and public squares’ to reserve power supplies for export, with country’s economy struggling to adjust after Ukraine war cut major imports
By Bassem Aboualabass
Sudanese anti-coup protesters wave the national flag as they gather in a street in the capital Khartoum, on October 30, 2021, to express their support for the country's democratic transition which a military takeover and deadly crackdown derailed. (AFP)
October 30, 2021, 8:53 pm
Sudan’s FM refuses to negotiate with coup leaders, says country ‘under arrest’
Mariam al-Mahdi is among the few civilian leaders who were not arrested by military generals; at least 11 protesters killed by security forces
By Bassem Aboualabass
Mamdouh Hassan (R) shows a crocodile to visitors at his house in the Nubian village of Gharb Soheil, on the west bank of the Nile river off Egypt's southern city of Aswan, February 3, 2020. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
March 6, 2020, 11:33 pm
Egypt’s Nubians tame crocodiles for selfie-snapping tourists
Members of the Egyptian minority group catch and raise the reptiles as a source of income, but they also play an important role in the ancient Nubian culture
By Bassem Aboualabass
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, the new chairman of the African Union, at the 32nd African Union Summit, in Addis Ababa, February 10, 2019. (Samuel Habtab/AP)
August 21, 2019, 3:19 pm
Fears over Egypt’s judiciary abound as Sissi picks judges
President accused of ‘consolidating authoritarian rule’ after he passes decree giving himself the power to directly appoint top jurists
By Bassem Aboualabass
People walk past a banner supporting proposed amendments to the Egyptian constitution with a picture of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, Egypt, on April 16, 2019. (AP/Amr Nabil)
April 26, 2019, 6:13 am
Egypt referendum firms up Sissi rule as regional unrest flares
Egyptians seek stability and see no alternative to current president, expert says
By Bassem Aboualabass
Members of the Egyptian security forces stand guard at the scene of an attack on a tourist bus in Giza province south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on December 28, 2018 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)
December 29, 2018, 4:55 pm
Egypt kills 40 ‘terrorists’ in crackdown after fatal Giza pyramids attack
Police say suspects slain in raids were preparing a series of attacks, though it does not directly link them to bus bombing that killed three tourists and an Egyptian guide
By Bassem Aboualabass
Illustrative: Logos of US online social media and social networking service Facebook. (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)
June 29, 2018, 8:31 am
With cries of ‘false news,’ Egypt looks to monitor popular social media users
Under new bill, users with 5,000 followers would be supervised by Supreme Council for Media Regulation, which would be able to suspend accounts
By Bassem Aboualabass and Aziz El Massassi
Mohamed Abdel Fattah, the imam of al-Rawda mosque, which was attacked by terrorists near the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, receives treatment at al-Husseiniya hospital in Egypt's northern province of al-Sharqiya on November 25, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
November 27, 2017, 12:21 am
Egypt imam vows to return to massacre mosque to finish his sermon
Mohammed Abdel Fattah was trampled on the floor, and pinned below dead bodies, as 305 worshipers were murdered in Sinai terror attack
By Bassem Aboualabass
Bahrain Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, during a meeting at the Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo, on November 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)
November 19, 2017, 9:57 pm
Lebanon under ‘total control’ of Hezbollah, Bahrain says
At Arab League meeting, Saudi Arabia says it won’t stand idle in the face of Iranian ‘aggression,’ or ‘hesitate to defend its national security’
By Bassem Aboualabass
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