The two-year anniversary of the Egyptian Arab Spring, which ousted then-ruler Hosni Mubarak, was marked this week by clashes between protestors and riot police outside the presidential palace in Cairo. Elections held after Mubarak’s ouster saw the election of Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood-linked candidate who subsequently triggered a crisis in...

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to Egypt – designed to go down in the history books as a turning point in relations between the two countries – quickly went from very bad to much worse. It’s not too much to suggest that, shortly after receiving an effusive welcome Tuesday at...

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As protests continue to simmer in Egypt, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Cairo on Thursday – the first Iranian leader to visit Egypt since Iran cut off relations over Egypt’s 1979 peace treaty with Israel – calling for a new alliance: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried Thursday to entice...

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Egypt has begun flooding the smuggling tunnels that run between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The tunnels’ destruction is among the terms of an Egyptian-brokered agreement to end Israel’s eight-day Operation Pillar of Defense, which the Jewish state launched in November 2012 after weeks of escalatory rocket and missile...

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Iran will cancel visa requirements for Egyptian merchants and tourists seeking to enter the country, according to statements made last week to Egyptian state news by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi. The move will be read against the backdrop of Iranian efforts to create what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has...

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Egypt’s interior minister has upped security for leaders of the political opposition in the country after religious hardliners issued fatwas calling for their murder. A video clip from the religious al-Hafez channel shows Muslim cleric Mahmoud Shabaan calling for former IAEA head Mohamed El Baradei and former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi to...

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The expected arrival of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Cairo – the first of an Iranian president since the 1979 Islamic Revolution – has the air of a historic occasion. After 32 years of diplomatic disconnect between the two countries – initiated by Iran after Egypt made peace with Israel – an...

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The visit of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Egypt, the first by an Iranian leader since Cairo and Tehran broke off relations in 1980, has not entirely succeeded in conveying a sense of rapprochement between the two long-time rivals. Over the course of the trip, Egyptian officials have publicly condemned...

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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, marking the first time an Iranian leader has visited Egypt in three decades. Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi publicly welcomed the Iranian leader, with other Egyptian officials and parts of the Egyptian public criticized Iran. One unidentified assailant even pelted the Iranian...

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Deepening Egyptian political instability – driven partly by increasingly graphic reports of violent crackdowns conducted by security forces on behalf of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government – may soon be exacerbated by economic turmoil. The government has been unable to implement austerity measures demanded by the IMF in exchange for a critical...

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