In Gaza, hunger and siege changed the meanings of bread, rice, khobeiza, and oud. Three years after reaching Cairo, ordinary foods and fragrances still return me to the war.
Fake charities and brokers in Egypt are exploiting desperate Palestinian refugees from Gaza who receive little aid and are legally barred from working.
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the so-called ceasefire in Gaza, we look at a brief timeline of a long-established Israeli practice of sabotaging negotiations and violating ceasefire agreements to advance their goals.
Gamal Abdel Nasser’s famous quote has been co-opted over the decades by competing political agendas – but amid genocide, it has become clear that Arab struggles for sovereignty cannot be divorced from the fight for Palestinian liberation.
It appeared that Arab states would present a united front to avoid widespread ethnic cleansing in Gaza, but the United Arab Emirates is undercutting those efforts with the Trump administration in order to cement its future influence in Palestine.
While Israel and the United States are working together on a plan for Gaza, they have slightly different interests. This gap is opening space for regional Arab leaders to propose an alternative vision that avoids full-scale ethnic cleansing.
Arab leaders face increasing pressure from the White House to support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. As they prepare an alternative proposal for Gaza it seems unlikely they can satisfy both Trump and their own citizens.
Ceasefire negotiations have resumed in Egypt between Hamas and Israel. A new push for unity between rival Palestinian factions could offer a new path forward, but internal Israeli political strife could once again prevent a deal from taking shape.
Egypt is complicit in the genocide in Gaza, but any Egyptian who engages in even mild protest is arrested. How did we get here?
Israel has been clear about its plans to force Palestinians from Gaza, and Egypt is now reportedly building an area to receive them. Palestinians need a respite from Israel’s brutality, but mass displacement into the Sinai would be a catastrophe.