Egypt - New York Times

Los líderes autoritarios del mundo están recurriendo a sus estrategias habituales para proyectar control. La jugada es arriesgada en una crisis tan caótica.

The world’s strongmen are reverting to their standard playbook to project an aura of control. It’s a risky strategy for a chaotic crisis.

E.M.T.s under siege. A submerged forest. Egypt’s female lion tamers. 36 hours wherever you are. Alison Roman’s Seder table. Jared Kushner. And more.

La lucha por la igualdad de género está muy rezagada en el país. Pero seis mujeres destacan en los espectáculos con los grandes felinos.

The broader struggle for women’s equality may be lagging in Egypt, but six women dominate the field of lion taming in the country.

South Africa is now the epicenter of the pandemic in Africa, with more than 1,000 confirmed cases across the country’s nine provinces.

Egyptian officials insist that it’s safe to visit. But on Monday, tourists in the ancient city of Luxor were confined to their hotels as doctors tested for the virus.

The sudden surge of cases stoked growing fears among a nervous Egyptian public of a much larger number of infections than their government has either detected or declared.

A funeral for Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former ruler, highlighted his military record but sought to play down his position as the country’s longest-serving president.

The death of Hosni Mubarak underscored how Egyptian hopes for democracy following his ouster in 2011 have been crushed under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

Mr. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for almost three decades, died after spending the last years of his life facing charges of financial corruption and collusion in the killing of Egyptian protesters.

Mr. Mubarak, who had been likened to a modern-day pharaoh, was deposed in 2011 by the popular unrest in the Arab world that came to be called the Arab Spring.

Mr. Mubarak, who had been likened to a modern-day pharaoh, was deposed in 2011 by the popular unrest in the Arab world that came to be called the Arab Spring.

Mr. Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years. His rise was described as an accident of history, and his hold on power was upended by a public outcry.

A rare ceremony at an ancient synagogue brought 180 Jews back to Egypt, decades after they were pressured to leave. But few Egyptians knew about it, highlighting government ambivalence.

Alaa and Gamal Mubarak had faced charges of illegally profiting from the sale of a bank in 2007.

Haunted by the 2016 death in Cairo of an Italian student, Giulio Regeni, Italians are campaigning for the release of an Egyptian who has said he was tortured.

The stricter policy requires all residents who are returning from outside the city to isolate themselves for 14 days.

With little habitable land, deepening poverty and dwindling supplies of water, the future looks bleak. And there is no sign of a slowdown.

Ethiopia is staking its hopes on its $4.5 billion hydroelectric dam. Egypt fears it will cut into its water supplies. President Trump is mediating.