Skip to content
HeyJared

Menna Farouk

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
4
Latest publication
Sep 12, 2026
Outlet visibility, for AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012
Top 1M sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 7, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Menna Farouk

    Egyptians budget for bread after mass food aid cuts (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Standing outside a bakery in Cairo's working-class El-Marg district, Eman Abdel Fattah thumbed a handful of crumpled banknotes, calculating how much bread she could afford after her family's food subsidy card was suspended. "We used to worry about having enough money for meat," the 42-year-old mother of four told AFP, inching forward in the queue. "Now we worry about bread," she said, saying it was the one thing her family cannot do without. Egyptian flatbread is a staple of nearly every meal, a

  2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Menna Farouk with Mary Yang in Beijing Sep 1, 2026

    China's Xi arrives in Egypt as US sanctions threat looms over Iran links (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Egypt on Tuesday on a rare trip to the Middle East as both countries face the threat of US sanctions over financial links to Iran. Xi and his wife were greeted on the tarmac by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the first lady, as well as a performance by an Egyptian folk dance troupe. The two-day visit comes as both countries seek to manage the fallout of the months-long Middle East war, which began when the United States and Israel launched stri

  3. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Menna Farouk with Haitham el-Tabei in Riyadh Aug 1, 2026

    Egypt captains recount scramble to stop disaster after drone strike (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Marine officers who battled fires aboard two gas vessels struck in a drone attack on Egypt's port of Damietta feared the ships were "a bomb waiting to explode" that could have destroyed the entire port and ripped through the city beyond. The US-owned Energos Winter floating storage and regasification unit and the Greek-owned LNG tanker GasLog Salem -- which were moored side by side at the Mediterranean port -- have a combined carrying capacity of 300,000 cubic metres. "The entire port could have

  4. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Menna FAROUK with AFP teams in Gaza Jul 7, 2026

    'History made': Egyptian pride despite World Cup heartbreak (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    As Egypt bowed out of the World Cup with a dramatic 3-2 defeat to a Lionel Messi-inspired Argentina in the last 16 on Tuesday, supporters in Cairo rose to applaud a team that had taken the country further than ever before. "We're heartbroken because we believed we could go even further," said Ismail Fawzy, 39, who watched the match with hundreds of supporters at a cafe in Cairo's eastern Heliopolis district. "But when you think about everything this team has done, you can only be proud. They gav

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 1M sites

For AL-MONITOR: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Menna Farouk