2018 in Egypt

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).
 * 29 March – Mohamed Shaker, diplomat and political scientist (b. 1933)
 * 2 April – Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, novelist (b. 1962).
 * 10 April – Samir Gharbo, water polo player (b. 1925).
 * 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).
 * 6 August – Sanaa Mazhar, actress (b. 1932).