Lamine Yamal has broken his silence over the Islamophobic chants this Tuesday at Cornellà-El Prat, on the occasion of a friendly between Spain and Egypt, with a publication on Instagram. "I know [the chants] were for the opposing team [Egypt], but as a Muslim person it is still a lack of respect and something intolerable [...]. To those who sing these things: using religion as a mockery leaves you as ignorant and racist people," wrote the Barça star and the main star of Luis de la Fuente's team. The footballer left the Espanyol stadium with his head down and without greeting the local fans.

Joan Garcia has debuted with the Spanish national team and has been at the stadium that until last June was his home, the RCDE Stadium. The Spanish men's national team has returned to Catalonia four years later in a friendly against Egypt (0-0). One of the great attractions of the match was knowing whether the blue and red goalkeeper would debut with the senior national team. The Sallent-born player was dropped from the squad last Friday in Vila-real, but came on in the 62nd minute in Cornellà-El Prat with more applause than whistles – despite being booed by some fans during the warm-up due to his past with Espanyol–. Luis de la Fuente was also booed after not calling up Joan Garcia when he was with the white and blue team. If he had been called up before signing for Barça, his release clause would have increased by five million more, up to thirty.

With Eagles of CairoWith the film premiering this Friday, Tarik Saleh (Stockholm, 1972) concludes his trilogy of thrillers Set in Egypt, his father's country and where he himself studied art in the early nineties, the new film follows a famous actor pressured by the Al-Sisi regime to accept a role that will glorify the general who has ruled Egypt since 2014. Cinema, sex, politics, secrets, and lies shape a gripping drama starring the great Fares Fares, charismatic yet vulnerable when necessary.

Panait Istrati (1884-1935), known as the Gorky of the Balkans, a fervent communist in his youth, was among the first intellectuals to publicly denounce Stalinism. The son of a Romanian laundress and a Greek smuggler he never met, he was a precocious reader and a tireless wanderer. A friend of the writers Romain Rolland (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1915) and Nikos Kazantzakis (a perennial Nobel Prize nominee), he wrote in French and was followed in Republican Catalonia. Anna Casassas, who has already translated some of his works, now signs the translation. When the sun rises (Cal Carré publishing house), a book dated 1934, a year before his death, alone and isolated in a Bucharest sanatorium. He was 50 years old and had long been suffering from tuberculosis.

Grifols has received certification from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the entire value chain of Grifols Egypt for Plasma Derivatives (GEPD), a project by the Catalan multinational specializing in plasma derivatives in partnership with the Egyptian government. The authority responsible for the scientific evaluation, supervision, and safety control of medicines in the European Union (EU) confirmed that the entire Grifols Egypt plasma platform "operates under the most demanding European standards of quality, safety, and regulatory control," the company explains. Thanks to this certification, Egypt becomes the first country in Africa and the Middle East to operate a fully integrated plasma collection and processing system "that meets the strictest international standards throughout the entire cycle, from the medical evaluation of donors and the donation process to the analysis of the medicines" and the plasma processing. This also facilitates the country's progress toward exporting surplus medicines derived from Egyptian plasma to other markets, particularly in Europe, including Spain.

On January 9, 2024, almost two years ago, Grifols, the Catalan multinational specializing in blood products with family capital, suffered a huge blow on the stock market. The reason? The speculative fund Gotham City Research Gotham accused the company of manipulating its debt and operating profit (EBITDA), alleging that it inflated profits while concealing the true extent of its liabilities after years of growth. Before the pandemic, a crisis that paralyzed the blood collection business and strained its finances, the company had expanded through acquisitions, which had increased its debt. Following the initial allegations, which Gotham supplemented with subsequent reports, the group implemented governance reforms and had to divest part of its business in China, Shanghai RAAS, which it sold to the Chinese giant Haier. to reduce their liabilitiesToday, BK is in the midst of expanding its operations in Egypt, in partnership with the Egyptian government through an agreement signed in 2020, and will launch Africa's first biotechnology plant. Furthermore, it is experiencing less turbulent times and has a better outlook, according to analysts. Much of this change in the outlook is due to its results, as it earned €304 million through September, a 245% increase compared to the same period last year, after closing the third quarter with a profit of €127 million, a 146% increase. Its revenue in these nine months grew by 7.7%, to €5.542 billion.

On October 28, 1925, Egyptologist Howard Carter and his assistants removed the golden nails securing the coffin and lifted the lid. Before them appeared the well-preserved mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Almost three years—less one week—had passed since the tomb had been discovered. Archaeologists had had to traverse three rooms to reach the one containing the remains. And there they had to open not one coffin, but three. Through a complex game of Russian nesting dolls, they were finally able to access the mummy of the third-to-last pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, who had ruled for almost 3,350 years.

Hamas has said it is ready to release the Israeli hostages. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Islamist group has reportedly announced that it is ready to hand over all twenty live hostages to Israel this Sunday. Inside the Strip, devastated by Israeli bombs after two years of genocidal war, there are still 48 hostages: an estimated 20 are alive and 18 dead. As part of the Trump-sponsored peace agreement, the return of the Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners is one of the key points of the first phase of the plan, along with the ceasefire that has already come into effect. US President Donald Trump had said that the release of the hostages would take place on Monday, but this statement by Hamas suggests it could be brought forward and begin this Sunday.

Today, the world's eyes are on Egypt, where Israeli, Palestinian, and American negotiators are meeting to decide whether or not to sign Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. The United States is pressuring Hamas to sign. Netanyahu bombs Gaza to get Hamas to sign, and Hamas must quickly say whether it accepts the 20-point plan agreed upon by Trump and Netanyahu.

The Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, one of Egypt's most prominent political prisoners, was released from prison on Monday night after spending six years. Fattah, 43, was pardoned by President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi, reportedly following a request from the National Council for Human Rights, and has now been reunited with his family.

The arid desert conditions and the practice of embalming and mummification, which was widespread socioculturally during the periods of various Egyptian dynasties, make obtaining DNA from human remains extremely difficult. It should be noted that the liquids used in the mummification process degrade and destroy the genetic material of all soft tissues, which remain as leather. Inside a rock-cut tomb in the ancient necropolis of Nuwayrat (a town about 265 kilometers from Cairo), a large sealed clay tub was found, containing the unembalmed body of an adult man.

What wouldn't a mother do for her son? Laila Soueif, a British-Egyptian, is even willing to lose her life. This 69-year-old math teacher is dying in a central London hospital after a hunger strike of more than 240 days to draw attention to the situation of Alaa Abdel Fattah, her son, Egypt's most famous political prisoner. This blogger, writer, and human rights activist remains imprisoned by the regime of General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the country's coup-plotting president.

The opportunity to spend a few years in the land of the pharaohs doesn't come along often, so when it presented itself in 2022 to Alba Ruiz, a 34-year-old teacher from Mataró, and her husband, with whom they had just had a child, they decided to take advantage of it. He had been offered the option of temporarily moving to Egypt for work, and she requested a leave of absence from the school where she had been working for eight years, San José in her hometown, so she could travel. "It was now or never," she explains.

At least six people have died and nine others have been injured when a tourist submarine capsized in Hurghada, on Egypt's Red Sea coast. Forty-five tourists were on board, according to Egyptian authorities. The governor of the Red Sea province, Amr Hanafi, confirmed that the six dead were Russian nationals and detailed that emergency services were able to rescue the other 39 people on board and that no one is missing. According to Viktor Voropaev, a Russian official in Hurghada, the dead include two infants. Local media report that at least four are critically injured.

The leaders of the 22 countries that make up the Arab League, the UN and the European Union (EU) met on Tuesday afternoon in an emergency summit to negotiate a reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip that would avoid the displacement of Palestinians and the reconversion of the enclave into a "Riviera of the Near East." The American president lit up social media last week with the publication of a video made with artificial intelligence (AI) The summit is set to agree on a plan for the next five years, which would be divided into three technical phases, former Egyptian diplomat Mohamed Hegazy told Al Jazeera. The plan includes a six-month "initial recovery" phase, which would involve clearing debris and temporarily relocating displaced people. A two-year second phase would be for rebuilding infrastructure, and a two-and-a-half-year third phase to rebuild homes and services in order to move towards "a political path to implement the two-state solution." Experts have said the difficulty with Egypt's plan lies in funding, with the UN confirming that more than $50 billion will be needed to rebuild the Gaza Strip. This point will be discussed at the summit, but experts believe that the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will have a major role in financing the reconstruction.

The Arab world expressed its support for a reconstruction plan for Gaza that excludes Hamas and that Egypt has been preparing in recent weeks, during a summit in Cairo, to articulate a joint alternative to the US President Donald Trump's proposal to take control of the Strip after expelling the population. However, the Egyptian proposal leaves several key issues regarding the future governance of the territory unresolved, and its viability is called into question by the current lack of support from Tel Aviv and Washington.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi, who rules the country with an iron fist, visited the Moncloa palace on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Gaza with Pedro Sánchez. Both the Egyptian regime and the Spanish government have expressed their opposition in the ethnic cleansing plan that Donald Trump wants to apply to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. "I want to reiterate the absolute rejection of the proposal to move the population of Gaza. Gaza belongs to the Palestinians and to the future Palestinian state. Its expulsion would not only be immoral and contrary to international law, but would destabilise the entire region," said the Spanish Prime Minister.

Ten years ago, he was singing Irhal [Leave] in front of tens of thousands of people in Cairo's Tahrir Square, against Hosni Mubarak's regime, and today he lives in exile between Sweden and Finland. Ramy Essam (Mansoura, Egypt, 1987) was the voice of the revolution, one of Egypt's most popular singer-songwriters. After the fall of the rais he continued to sing against the military junta and against the government of Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood. With the return of the military to power with Marshal Al-Sissi he had to go into exile, but he continues to denounce the repression of a regime that accumulates tens of thousands of political prisoners. Among them is the poet Galal El-Bahairy, author of the lyrics of the song Bahlal, a song Essam released in 2018. The young director of the video clip, Shady Habash, died of medical malpractice behind bars.

After six days aground, the Ever Given, the huge 400-metre cargo ship weighing 220,000 tons stranded in the Suez Canal has been refloated early this morning, according to several reports, so that the circulation in this crucial route for maritime trade could be recovered soon. According to Reuters, the vessel has been freed, the engines have been started and final checks are being made before it can be manoeuvred. It is unclear when the ship will be able to move and resume traffic in the canal. Each day of blockage costs over €8bn.

The Suez Canal has temporarily suspended all traffic while it still tries to free the ship Ever Given which has been stranded in the middle of the canal for three days after losing power in the middle of a storm on Tuesday morning. Although the canal authorities were confident on Wednesday that they would be able to remove the ship and open the passage that same day, the ship remains aground and small tugboats are trying unsuccessfully to move it.