2018 in Egypt

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Events in the year 2018 in Egypt.

Incumbents

• President: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
• Prime Minister: Sherif Ismail

Events

• 6 February onwards – the 2018 Cyprus gas dispute, involving Turkish rejection of a 2013 Cypriot-Egyptian maritime border demarcation deal
• 9 February – initiation of Comprehensive Operation – Sinai 2018
• 26 to 28 March – In the Egyptian presidential election, 2018, incumbent president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was reelected with a majority of the votes.

Deaths

• 1 January – Ebrahim Nafae, journalist (b. 1934).^[1]
• 29 March – Mohamed Shaker, diplomat and political scientist (b. 1933)
• 2 April – Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, novelist (b. 1962).^[2]
• 10 April – Samir Gharbo, water polo player (b. 1925).^[3]
• 6 May – Khaled Mohieddin, politician and military officer (b. 1922)
• 29 July – Anba Epiphanius, Coptic prelate, Abbot of Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great (b. 1954).^[4]
• 6 August – Sanaa Mazhar, actress (b. 1932).^[5]

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