The video footage is blurred and shaky, but there is no mistaking the identity of the two young girls.
Sitting in what appears to be a busy city square and speaking above a cacophony of car horns, Christine and Nancy Fathy explain to the camera why (...)
Despite being one of the most celebrated cities of the ancient world, Luxor could soon fall prey to one of the modern era's least celebrated innovations - the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) camera.
The city, which more than 3000 years ago was the (...)
As a symbol of the triumph of Western-style capitalism, Costa Coffee takes some beating.
Founded 40 years ago in south London by two Italian brothers, the chain now has an annual turnover of US$425 million and is second in global dominance only to (...)
Before Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, bringing the Sinai Peninsula back into Egypt's possession, Moshe Dayan, Israel's eye patch-wearing foreign minister, had no doubt about what the deal would mean for his (...)
The Twitter updates kept on coming, sometimes at a rate of ten a minute. “The sheer spite they had for us and for the revolution will never be forgotten,” tweeted Mosa'ab al-Shamy at around 12.30 pm.
Shortly afterwards, in response to a fellow (...)
The fall of Hosni Mubarak has triggered a rush by political parties and foreign organizations to use opinion polling to gauge the mind of the nation in the run-up to parliamentary and presidential elections this year.
Prior to the 25 January (...)
The uprisings against authoritarian regimes across the Middle East and North Africa are a reason for hope, "sending a signal to repressive governments that their days are numbered," Amnesty International's secretary general Salil Shetty said upon (...)
Since the toppling of Hosni Mubarak in February, many Coptic Christians have begun making plans to leave the country, fearing instability and the rising power of Islamist political groups.
Lawyers who specialize in working with Coptic Egyptians, who (...)
It had been a breath-taking journey: leaving behind the parched confines of the capital and then winding our way up the north-west coastal roads though luscious, tumbling countryside more reminiscent of southern France than anywhere in the Middle (...)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has closed its head office in Egypt until further notice due to ongoing protests by Sudanese refugees demanding to be resettled outside Egypt.
The protests started about three weeks ago and (...)
In an effort to ease its US$35 billion debt load, Egypt is hoping to change loan conditions and salvage the country's post-revolution economy.
Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Faiza Abu Naga, last week asked the World Bank to (...)
Distraught families demonstrated outside Cairo's State Television building on Sunday to demand the release of relatives they believe are being unfairly held in Egypt's prisons.
Mothers and fathers waved banners and chanted as lines of nearby (...)
Gehan Shaaban has come a long way since her youthful days as a radical Trotskyite student.
In the early 1990s she joined forces with a small group of far left political activists in Egypt and founded an organization called the Revolutionary (...)
Frustrated Zamalek residents were refusing to vote at the local polling station after being faced with a three-hour wait at the island's only polling center.
Al-Masy Al-Youm spoke to a number of people who were leaving the island in search of other (...)
Activists and political heavyweights locked horns last night during a televised BBC debate in Cairo, asking whether elections scheduled for this summer should be shelved.
In a special episode of BBC World's Doha Debates -- the first ever to be (...)
A five-story Ottoman-era apartment block above Louvre Meuble furniture store looms over Hoda Shaarawi Street like a cantankerous old grandfather.
On each floor redbrick window recesses, framing a series of battered green wooden shutters, arch up (...)
Naeema Abdel Mageed Sharaf sits cross-legged on the bed cradling her seven-week-old grand-daughter.
“My son was so happy when Fatima was born,” she says, her eyes swelling up with grief. “He hoped to make everything for her.”
But tragically he never (...)
The Armed Forces set 19 March as the date for a national referendum on the constitutional amendments drafted by a committee of experts, a statement said on Friday.
The referendum will be held on the amendment of seven articles of the current (...)
Since its establishment nearly 100 years ago, the American University in Cairo has developed an enviable array of programs. But the recent political upheavals across Egypt have inspired lecturers to add a new, rather more highly-charged subject to (...)
The army told one of Egypt's main activist groups that it intends to hold parliamentary elections in June.
During a marathon five-hour meeting last night with members of the January 25 coalition, a trio of generals said they want to follow the (...)
The presence of deposed president Hosni Mubarak in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh is “suspicious” and represents the “biggest threat to the revolution," according to a committee of young activists.
At a press conference today, the group (...)
Gruesome details have emerged about the crisis in al-Qata prison, where guards were reportedly still shooting at inmates just days ago. Prisoners have told stories of dead and decomposing bodies being left in cells for up to four days after guards (...)
Despairing shopkeepers have said the continued bank closures across Egypt are beginning to hit their businesses hard.
In addition to the government's internet clampdown, which ground web traffic to a halt until restrictions were lifted this morning (...)
Damascus--In the town of Qardaha, perched on the mountains overlooking Syria's Mediterranean coast, former president Hafez al-Assad must be turning in his grave.
It is 10 years since the man who ruled Syria for three decades was laid to rest in his (...)