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Kamal Tabikha

Kamal Tabikha

Correspondent
Cairo
Kamal is one of The National’s correspondents in Cairo. He has over six years of experience working as a reporter for Al Masry Al Youm, Egypt Independent, Nile Radio Productions and Cairo Scene. His experience includes translation, field reporting, research and creative writing. He is also proficient in three languages.

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Egyptian journalists during a protest in solidarity with Palestinians at the headquarters of the Syndicate of Journalists in Cairo on Wednesday. AFP
Egyptians express support for Gaza but worry about refugees

Public opinion in Egypt is generally pro-Palestinian, with some calling for a stronger military response from the government

EgyptOctober 12, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
A vegetable market in Cairo, Egypt. Vegetable prices witnessed a sizable rise of 19.2 per cent, mainly on the back of lower supplies. Reuters
Egypt inflation soars to record 38% in September

On a monthly basis, the country’s inflation rate rose to 2 per cent, according to the latest data

EgyptOctober 10, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
A foreign exchange bureau in Cairo. Reuters
Egypt suspends foreign currency debit card withdrawals and purchases

Move aimed at curbing foreign funds leaving the cash-strapped country as it gears up to hold a presidential election in December

EgyptOctober 10, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
Adverts bearing President El Sisi's face and slogans in support of his third term have sprung up all over Cairo. AP
Government moves to lower food prices weeks before Egypt's election

Policy is one of the best ways of promoting El Sisi's election campaign, prominent lawyer tells The National

EgyptOctober 05, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
Ahmed Hussein killed Nourhan Hussein on the Cairo University campus. He later shot himself. Wikipedia Commons
Cairo University killer shoots himself during arrest

Police had been trying to arrest Ahmed Hussein in Alamein, after university colleague was shot on Wednesday

EgyptSeptember 29, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
Ali Al Sharqawy, 30, a bodybuilder from the Egyptian city of Tanta, collects rubbish to sell as a way to make it through after a sharp rise in the cost of living. Pictures: Mohammed Fathi / The National.
Egyptian bodybuilding champion collecting rubbish to earn living

Ali Al Sharqawy, 30, wants the respect he says he has been denied for most of his life

EgyptSeptember 28, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
The Cairo University campus. Photo: Wikipedia Commons
Police investigate after Cairo University staff member shot dead

The suspect, believed to be a colleague of the victim, is still at large

EgyptSeptember 27, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
A vegetable stall at a market in Cairo. EPA
Egyptians angered over sharp rise in vegetable prices

Cairo announced three-month ban on export of onions in bid to bring prices down

EgyptSeptember 25, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
People walk past a fruit seller's stall in the Azhar district of Cairo. AFP
Egyptians turn to buy-now-pay-later offers - even for vegetables

Use of deferred payments is expected to increase by more than 50 per cent this year as citizens contend with record high inflation

EgyptSeptember 21, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
A diver uncovers a votive hand during an archaeological excavation in Thonis-Heracleion, an ancient city about seven kilometres off Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Franck Goddio / Hilti Foundation
Sunken temples of Aphrodite and Amun found off Egypt's Mediterranean coast

The discovery was made at Thonis-Heracleion, a city that was once Egypt's largest port

MENASeptember 20, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
An archaeologist inside the restored Suleyman Pasha Al Khadim Mosque in old Cairo, Egypt, on September 16. Reuters
Egypt reopens oldest Ottoman mosque after five-year works

The work was carried out by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities and cost about $161,000

EgyptSeptember 17, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
Cairo's Al Fagala district is a hub for stationery and school supplies, but traders say demand is down. Kamal Tabikha / The National
Postcard from Cairo: Inflation marks up schoolbook prices

Business is slow in Cairo's Al Fagala district, where pupils and parents traditionally go to stock up for a new term

WeekendSeptember 15, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
An Egyptian woman wearing the niqab at a skateboarding event in Cairo, in 2021. A ban on the veil in Egyptian schools is proving controversial. Reuters
Egypt's niqab school ban met with scepticism and resistance

Doubts that decree stopping girls wearing veil will be implemented, while some parents threaten to remove daughters from lessons

EgyptSeptember 13, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
The Mosque of Muhammad Ali in the Citadel of Saladin is visible amid the dust and fog brought by Storm Daniel to Cairo. EPA
Storm Daniel brings sandstorms and cools down Cairo

Daniel had lost much of its strength by time it reached Egypt, after bringing devastation to Libya, where 2,000 are dead and 10,000 missing

EgyptSeptember 12, 2023
Kamal Tabikha
Flooding caused by Mediterranean Storm Daniel in Shahat, Libya, on Monday. Photo: Libyan News Agency
Disaster zone in Libya as dozens feared dead from Storm Daniel

Authorities and the Red Crescent scrambled to assess disaster on Monday evening

MENASeptember 11, 2023
Ismaeel Naar
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