Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Ayah Aman is an Egyptian journalist for Al-Shorouk specializing in Africa and the Nile Basin, Turkey and Iran and Egyptian social issues. On Twitter: @ayahaman

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir (L) gestures to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) as Sisi departs Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum June 27, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah (SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3W4RH

Opening of Egypt-Sudan border crossing sign of reconciliation

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

An Egyptian engineer works at the site of an upgrading project on the Suez Canal, in Ismailia port city, northeast of Cairo August 12, 2014. Egypt said last Tuesday it plans to build a new Suez Canal alongside the existing 145-year-old historic waterway in a multi-billion dollar project to expand trade along the fastest shipping route between Europe and Asia. Picture taken August 12, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS SOCIETY) - RTR429HA

Questions remain on Egypt’s Suez Canal project

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Employees work on dough for kunafa at a machine in the factory of Arafah Al Kanafani, a shop selling traditional sweets, in old Cairo July 9, 2014. Arafah, which started operations in 1870, is one of the oldest pastry shops in Egypt that sells traditional desserts such as kunafa and qatayef during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, according to the owner Haj Mahmoud Arafah, who is from the Arafah family that founded the shop. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY FOOD BUSINESS) - RTR3XU

Austerity measures won't save Egyptian economy

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Workers build a pipeline for transporting natural gas to Israel in north Delta Nile, 300 km (186 miles) north of Cairo, November 23, 2008. A Cairo court on November 18, 2008 overruled the Egyptian government's decision to allow exports of natural gas to Israel and said the constitution gave parliament the right to decide on sales of natural resources. Gas started flowing to Israel through a pipeline for the first time in May under an agreement signed in 2005 for the supply of 1.7 billion cubic meters a year

Egypt hasn't ruled out importing gas from Israel

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Labourers work at the Grand Renaissance dam in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz region March 16, 2014. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT ENERGY POLITICS BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR3HFSQ

Egypt cautiously optimistic on coming Renaissance Dam talks

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Women prisoners look out a barred window of Al-Qanater prison in Cairo October 6, 2007. Egypt's Interior Ministry invited representatives from the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights to visit the prison, after complaints of human rights violation were made by inmates in the prison. REUTERS/Nasser Nuri (EGYPT) - RTR1UNPQ

Female prisoners in Egypt suffer rampant abuse

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Mauritania's President and African Union's Chairperson Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, European Council's President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission's President Jose Manuel Barroso (L-R) hold a joint news conference during an European Union (EU)-Africa summit in Brussels April 3, 2014. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3JSD6

African Union set to restore Egypt’s membership

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Nubian man prays on rocks below the Philae temple complex near the southern Egyptian city of Aswan November 7, 2009. The earliest remains of the temple date from the reign of Nectanebo I in the third century BC and are now one of Egypt's legendary tourist attractions. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic (EGYPT SOCIETY) - RTXQGP4

Egypt’s Nubians demand rights on Aswan High Dam anniversary

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Boys run in the river Nile on the outskirts of Cairo May 6, 2013. Most of Egypt's population live clustered around the Nile valley and delta, and the river is both a vital resource for the country's citizens, and a potent national symbol. In a recent dispute with Ethiopia over the construction of a dam upstream, Egypt's foreign minister Mohamed Kamel Amr underlined the country's reliance on the river's waters: "No Nile - no Egypt," he said. Picture taken May 6, 2013. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLI

Egypt softens stance on Ethiopian dam

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Cairo November 2, 2013. Fahmy said on Saturday that Egypt would look beyond the United States to meet its security needs and warned Washington that it could no longer ignore popular demands in a changed Arab world. Picture taken November 2, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX14YF8

Fahmy: Egypt seeks talks, not conflict, over Ethiopian dam

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

A man walks over a bridge by the construction of Ethiopia's Great Renaissance Dam in Guba Woreda, some 40 km (25 miles) from Ethiopia's border with Sudan, June 28, 2013. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ENERGY ENVIRONMENT) - RTX115K9

Egyptian satellite will monitor water security, Renaissance Dam

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

A general view shows construction activity on the Grand Renaissance dam in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz region March 16, 2014. Egypt fears the $4.7 billion dam, that the Horn of Africa nation is building on the Nile, will reduce a water supply vital for its 84 million people, who mostly live in the Nile valley and delta. Picture taken March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: ENERGY ENVIRONMENT POLITICS BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR3HFQT

Report on Renaissance Dam notes concerns for Egypt, Sudan

Ayah Aman

In Cairo, reporting on politics and culture

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Ayah Aman

Opening of Egypt-Sudan border crossing sign of reconciliation

Questions remain on Egypt’s Suez Canal project

Austerity measures won't save Egyptian economy

Egypt hasn't ruled out importing gas from Israel

Egypt cautiously optimistic on coming Renaissance Dam talks

Female prisoners in Egypt suffer rampant abuse

African Union set to restore Egypt’s membership

Egypt’s Nubians demand rights on Aswan High Dam anniversary

Egypt softens stance on Ethiopian dam

Fahmy: Egypt seeks talks, not conflict, over Ethiopian dam

Egyptian satellite will monitor water security, Renaissance Dam

Report on Renaissance Dam notes concerns for Egypt, Sudan