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.
• 29 March – Mohamed Shaker, diplomat and political scientist
• 2 April – Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, novelist.
• 10 April – Samir Gharbo, water polo player.
• 6 May – Khaled Mohieddin, politician and military officer
• 29 July – Anba Epiphanius, Coptic prelate, Abbot of Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great.
• 6 August – Sanaa Mazhar, actress.