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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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A currency trader counts US banknotes at an exchange shop in Beirut. EPA
Shoppers in Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq left at the mercy of currency markets

Foreign exchange crunches and rising global inflation has drastically increased the three countries' import bills, leading to record increases in food prices

MoneyApril 05, 2023
The passport has once again taken its place among items on display at the Sadat Museum in Alexandria. Photo: Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Sadat's passport returned to museum after backlash over auction sale

Document had been sold through a Texas-based auction house to an anonymous buyer in February for $47,500

EgyptApril 03, 2023
A vendor sells dates and dried fruits at a market in Cairo ahead of Ramadan. AFP
Prices for nuts and dried fruit double in Egypt this Ramadan

A rising import bill and currency devaluations have driven the prices beyond the reach of many in Egypt

EgyptMarch 31, 2023
Noura Refaey, an Egyptian mother of three, at a food market in Cairo's Talbia where food prices continue to rise. Mahmoud Nasr / The National
Food insecurity reaches critical levels in Arab world, UN says

Report highlights prioritising trade as a solution to food security

MENAMarch 29, 2023
Egyptian child, Shenouda, was returned to his adoptive parents on Tuesday. Photo: Mansour Samuel
Egyptian boy returned to Coptic couple after Grand Mufti intervenes

Shenouda, 5, was secretly adopted in 2018 by couple who found him abandoned in a churchyard

EgyptMarch 29, 2023
Mummified ram heads uncovered during excavation work at the temple of Rameses II in Abydos. Reuters
More than 2,000 mummified ram heads uncovered at Egyptian temple

Find was made by an American archaeological mission that also unearthed a much older structure at Rameses II temple in Abydos

EgyptMarch 27, 2023
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Sochi, Russia, in 2014. Reuters
Egypt-Russia relations reach new heights despite Ukraine war

Russian to be offered as second language in Egyptian schools and universities as Egypt's accession to Brics New Development bank is made

EgyptMarch 24, 2023
Port Said, at the northern end of the Suez Canal. More than 12 per cent of the world's maritime traffic uses the waterway. Photo: Logos Hope
Egypt makes progress on Suez Canal expansion after 2021 blockage

Global trade channel will be deeper, wider and have a 10km bypass to avoid repeat of shutdown

MENAMarch 22, 2023
Pfizer's vaccine, sent under the Covax initiative, has been updated to tackle newer Covid-19 strains. Photo: Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population
Second shipment of Pfizer's updated Covid-19 vaccine arrives in Egypt

The doses were sent by Spain, Italy and Croatia under the Covax initiative

EgyptMarch 22, 2023
Farouk Ibrahim has captured some of the country’s most memorable moments from the front lines of the 1973 Arab-Israel war to the inner workings of the presidency of Anwar Sadat.
Farouk Ibrahim, the photographer who captured Egypt's most recognisable faces

Umm Kulthum, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak were among the subjects in his prolific six-decade career

EgyptMarch 21, 2023
Nagoya University Emulsion film muons detectors observing SP-NFC inside the pyramid.
'Big Void' at the core of Giza's Great Pyramid continues to baffle scientists

Cavity detected by the same imaging mission that discovered a nine-metre corridor inside the structure

EgyptMarch 20, 2023
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El Sisi hosts a Russian state delegation in Cairo. Photo: Egyptian presidency
Egypt's El Sisi receives Russian delegation for talks

Countries plan to boost co-operation in a number of key sectors

EgyptMarch 19, 2023
The sisters of Sufian al-Khawaja, killed by Israeli forces near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank village of Nilin in 2020, mourn during his funeral in Ramallah on March 18, 2023 after his body was returned for burial a day earlier. AFP
Palestine-Israel talks in Sharm El Sheikh will seek to abate violence before Ramadan

Discussion are continuation of Aqaba summit in February

MENAMarch 19, 2023
The Belgian royals' visit to the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 1923. Getty Images
Belgian royals in Egypt for centenary of queen's 1923 visit

A photography exhibition of former Belgian Queen Elisabeth of Bavaria's time in Egypt in the 1920s was visited by Belgium's current queen and her eldest daughter

EgyptMarch 16, 2023
Noura Refaey, an Egyptian mother of three, at a food market in Cairo's Talbia district where food prices continue to rise almost on a daily basis as Egypt contends with some of the worst economic conditions in years. Mahmoud Nasr for The National
How Egyptians are changing their diets to cope with higher food prices

Millions have drastically reduced their meat consumption, while others have started growing their own food

EgyptMarch 15, 2023
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