Ahmed Tantawi recounts the details of the Hope Alliance of 2019 for the first time: how the idea was born, who obstructed it from within, and what happened the night his colleagues were arrested. A frank conversation about the failures of the Egyptian opposition, and about the question the Civil Democratic Movement has yet to answer.
Citizens who paid electricity theft fines and completed judicial reconciliation still find their ration cards suspended, under an electronic system managed not by the Ministry of Supply but by the Ministry of Military Production, amid millions of complaints following the filing of 3.4 million electricity violation reports, and a complaints window opened on 14 June with no answer to the fundamental question: who has the authority to correct the data?
The budget for a theatrical production at some universities does not exceed 11,000 Egyptian pounds ($211.54), with students making up the shortfall from their own pockets, while the number of culture palaces and houses declined from 594 venues in 2016 to 347 by 2021, amid decisions to cancel and postpone university theater festivals in the name of austerity
Egypt recorded 1.4 million dog bite cases in 2025 at a treatment cost of 1.7 billion Egyptian pounds ($32.7 million), with an estimated 10 to 14 million stray dogs roaming its streets.
A government memorandum transfers Egypt’s 40,000 subsidized food outlets serving 60.8 million citizens to the “Carry On” brand under the Future of Egypt Authority, while outlet owners warn of crippling development costs, profit margins as low as 25 piasters per unit, and no official communication on how the transition will work
Egypt quietly issued asylum law executive regulations a year behind schedule, transferring refugee management from the UNHCR to the Interior Ministry amid warnings of an institutional vacuum and violations affecting over 1.1 million refugees.
