‘Saudi-Egypt Twitter war’
Sam Hamad, The New Arab, Saudi-Egypt Twitter war marks the end of Riyadh’s blank cheques for Sisi, 29 March 2023 “A media spat last month between Egyptian and Saudi...
Grindr Egypt Warning
Joe Ali, Pink News, Grindr sends every user in Egypt warning about police tricking and arresting queer men, 23 March 2023 “LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr has urged all users...
Alaa Abdel-Fattah
Deutesche Welle, Egypt: New push to free activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, 18 March 2023. “The activist and blogger is Egypt’s most prominent political prisoner. Despite a dramatic hunger strike late...
Egypt Crypto Scam
Al Jazeera, Egypt arrests dozens over alleged online crypto scam, 6 Mar 2023 “Egyptian authorities say they have arrested 29 people accused of running an online cryptocurrency scheme.”
LGBTQ+ Egypt Persecution
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, BBC News, How Egyptian police hunt LGBT people on dating apps, 31 Jan 2023 “In Egypt, homosexuality is highly stigmatised, and there have long been allegations that...
Mohamed Ramadan
The New Arab, Egyptian singer Mohamed Ramadan ‘breaks TikTok record’ for artists in Arab World “Egyptian singer Mohamed Ramadan says a hashtag bearing his name on TikTok exceeded 8...
Gaming Fatwas
Arab News, Egypt turns to religious edicts to protect children from harmful video games . “A recent report by the Global Fatwa Index showed that 33 percent of the...
Yusuf al-Qaradawi
The end of an era. It’s telling that the announcement appeared on Twitter: انتقل إلى رحمة الله سماحة الإمام يوسف القرضاوي الذي وهب حياته مبينا لأحكام الإسلام، ومدافعا عن...
TikTok Issues
Sebastian Usher, BBC News, Tala Safwan: Egyptian TikToker held in Saudi over ‘immoral’ video, 26 Jul 2022 “Tala Safwan, who has five million followers on TikTok and some 800,000...
Egypt meta-kid
Aisling Ní Chúláin & Reuters/Euronews, This 13-year old Egyptian wunderkind is building his own metaverse out of his mother’s old clothes, 28 June 2022 “Using some of his mother’s...