Egypt’s parliament voted on Wednesday to expel an independent lawmaker who invited the Israeli ambassador in Cairo for dinner, drawing widespread criticism and prompting a fellow deputy to attack him with his shoe. Speaker Ali Abdelaal announced that 465 lawmakers, out of 490 who attended the session voted to expel Tawfik Okasha from the legislature,…
Egyptian lawmaker Tawfik Okasha was attacked in parliament on Sunday, with one colleague hurling a shoe at him and others demanding he be suspended after he invited the Israeli ambassador for dinner. Egypt was the first of a handful of Arab countries to recognize Israel with a United States-sponsored 1979 peace accord, but Egyptian attitudes…
CAIRO — There has been another attack on tourists in Egypt, just one day after gunmen shot at Israeli tourists in Cairo.’ The new attack happened at the entrance to a hotel in the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, where Egyptian security forces killed at least one gunman who opened fire, state television reported….
Egypt has freed an Israeli-Arab held in its jails for 15 years on espionage charges in exchange for the release of two Egyptians held in Israel, Egyptian and Israeli officials said on Thursday. Uda Tarrabin, originally from a tribe in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, on the border with Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, had been…
Born in Cairo in 1948, the French Jewish author Tobie Nathan and his family were expelled from Egypt in 1957, during the anti-Jewish persecutions of the Nasser regime. Nathan is an ethnopsychiatrist, a specialist in mental illness in different cultures. He has published books on Sigmund Freud and on the Zionist leader Haim Arlosoroff, among…
Egypt has appointed an ambassador to Israel after recalling its envoy three years ago. Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Sunday that there will be a new Egyptian minister. “The Foreign Ministry welcomes the appointment,” ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement. The new ambassador has been identified as Hazem Khairat, Egypt’s former permanent representative…
Today is the first day of Ramadan. In the Arab world, that means fasting and praying and post-sunset binging. It also means lots and lots of TV. Among the many soap operas aired around this time each year to entertain Muslims as they break fast, there have been plenty featuring anti-Semitic tropes. Plot lines referencing…
Jon Stewart and Bassem Youssef on “The Daily Show” / Youtube Jon Stewart quitting “The Daily Show” is bad for the Jews. It’s bad for the Muslims. It’s bad for the entire Middle East. If you want to know why, just watch this clip of the real Jon Stewart joking around with “Egypt’s Jon Stewart,”…
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