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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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Rescue afforts after a diving boat capsized in the Red Sea off Egypt's coast. The search operation for seven people still missing from a dive boat that capsized and sank off Egypt's east coast entered a third day on Wednesday. AFP
Egyptian navy continues search for seven still missing in yacht tragedy

High waves and unstable weather likely to have caused Sea Story yacht to capsize, leaving four dead and seven unaccounted for among 44 passengers and crew

MENANovember 27, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
Rescuers transport a survivor after the yacht sank off the coast of Marsa Alam. Egyptian Press Centre via AP
Four bodies and five more survivors found after tourist boat tragedy off Egypt's Red Sea coast

Fears for seven people still missing after governor says many were in cabins when vessel capsized

MENANovember 26, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
First responders tend to a man on a stretcher in Marsa Alam on Monday. AFP
Seventeen missing after tourist boat carrying 45 sinks in Egypt

Search is under way for those lost at sea

MENANovember 25, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
An Egyptian-German archaeological mission has made a significant discovery in the south of Egypt dating back to Ptolemaic rule. Photo: Supreme Council of Antiquities
Egyptian-German archaeology team uncovers Ptolemaic Temple pylon in Sohag

Joint mission set to continue excavations to reveal entire religious complex

MENANovember 24, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
US envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello, centre, is welcomed by local officials upon his arrival in Port Sudan on November 18, 2024. AFP
US envoy meets army chief Al Burhan on first visit to Sudan

Experts criticise Tom Perriello's belated visit ahead of his departure from his post

MENANovember 19, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
A Sudanese family in their home in Cairo, after fleeing war in Sudan. Reuters
Egypt's parliament approves asylum law amendments 'in principle'

Proposals set to place ill-defined powers in hands of committee that lacks impartiality, critics say

MENANovember 17, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
The interior of Ibn Gaza, a shawarma shop in Cairo's Nasr City district, which has come to be known as 'Little Gaza' due to its large Palestinian refugee population. Mohamed Fathi for The National
'God has been kind to us': Little Gaza emerges in Cairo as a beacon of Palestinian hope

More than 100,000 Gazan refugees have found a chance to rebuild their lives in a vibrant enclave of the Egyptian capital

MENANovember 08, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
International Monetary Fund's managing director Kristalina Georgieva alongside Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly at the New Administrative Capital on Sunday. Reuters
Egypt strongly urged to press on with reforms as IMF chief visits Cairo

Country's mandated reform programme to remain largely intact, despite government appeals for easing loan conditions

EconomyNovember 03, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
Mohammed Dyouf is an Egyptian goalkeeper who is part of the national amputees team and is aiming to bring his team glory at the 2026 World Cup in Costa Rica. Reuters
Disabled Egyptian goalkeeper chases World Cup dream

Mohamed Dyoof aims for glory at 2026 amputee football World Cup in Costa Rica while supporting his family as a marble worker

FootballOctober 28, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
Fruit and vegetables on sale at a market in Cairo. Egypt's annual urban inflation rate has increased to 26.4 per cent in September, up from 26.2 per cent in August. EPA-EFE
Egypt to discuss re-evaluating terms of IMF loan agreement

El Sisi highlighted regional conflicts and reduced national revenues as circumstances that IMF must appreciate

EconomyOctober 23, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
Egypt has now joined the ranks of 44 countries that have eradicated the mosquito-borne infectious disease. Reuters
Egypt declared malaria-free, eradicating disease that 'plagued pharaohs'

WHO certification marks a major health milestone after a 100-year effort by the government and public

MENAOctober 21, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
A picture shows on October 15, 2024, ancient Egyptian colossal statues along the Grand Staircase at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza during the trial Operation of the Grand Egyptian Museum. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Postcard from CairoInside the Grand Egyptian Museum's stunning new galleries

Spanning 700,000 years of history, the showcased pieces range from the earliest stone tools to the majestic statues of the New Kingdom

MENAOctober 18, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
A Sudanese refugee gets a haircut in Cairo. More than a million people fled to Egypt after civil war broke out in Sudan last April 2023. EPA-EFE
Sudanese refugees risking life and limb to return home from Egypt

Shift follows recent gains by Sudan's military from rival RSF paramilitary and the economic pressures of living away from home

MENAOctober 11, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is formally received by his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El Sisi at Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo. X
Egypt, Somalia and Eritrea vow to bring peace to Horn of Africa at summit

Cairo's growing involvement in the region has seen it strengthen ties with Somalia and Eritrea but cause tensions with Ethiopia

MENAOctober 10, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
The aftermath of air strikes in central Khartoum after the Sudanese army attacked positions held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on September 26. AFP
US imposes sanctions on RSF chief's brother amid global push to end Sudan war

EU prolongs sanctions on a dozen people and entities affiliated with both sides

MENAOctober 09, 2024
Kamal Tabikha
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