CAIRO - Most schoolchildren in Egypt have experienced bullying as both victims and perpetrators, an eight-minute documentary film by promising director Tasneem Mohamed of the MSA University warned on Friday.
Some Egyptian elementary school pupils (...)
CAIRO - Mourners including ambassadors, intellectuals and ordinary citizens attended the funeral on Thursday of Carmen Weinstein, leader of the Jewish community of Cairo, who died last Saturday.
More than 100 people, including the ambassadors of the (...)
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi will not attend the enthronement of the new Coptic pope, announced Bishop Paul, spokesperson of the electoral committee, on Friday at a press conference at the Coptic Cathedral in Abbassyia.
The enthronement of Pope (...)
Egypt ended yesterday the controversial decades-old State of Emergency, which was imposed in 1981, following the assassination by Islamists of Anwar Sadat, Egypt's former president. Under the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak, it was repeatedly (...)
CAIRO - An Egyptian security official said on Thursday that the rocket that struck the southern Israeli city of Eilat Wednesady was not launched from the Sinai Peninsula, despite initial assessments to the contrary and amid reported attempts by (...)
CAIRO - Veteran columnist Mohssen Mohammed, whose richly crafted daily and weekly writings were admired by the majority of Egyptian readers, has died in Cairo of old age and chronic diseases, his family members said Saturday. He was 84.
Mohammed won (...)
CAIRO - In a nice gesture by the Interior Ministry, about 67 imprisoned mothers have been allowed to enjoy a reunion with their children on the occasion of Mother's Day, which Egypt observed.
The Ministry has provided the children with gifts, which (...)
CAIRO - The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Friday provided hundreds of military buses in Cairo for commuters suffering from a strike by transportation workers over the past seven days.
SCAF Chairman Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (...)
CAIRO - Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, was laid to rest at St. Bishoy Monastery in Wadi el-Natroun to scenes of searing emotion from hundreds of thousands of Egyptian mourners.
Many wailed in an (...)
CAIRO - The members and editors of the travel website VirtualTourist.com have compiled a list of the "Top 10 Best Non-Art Museums" agreeing that the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the most frequently visited museum in the world.
In their citation, the (...)
CAIRO (Update 3) - Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, died last night after suffering from health problems for years.
The late Pontiff was born in August 1923, making him 88 at the time of death. He had been forced to (...)
CAIRO - A renewed fuel shortage, which has hit Egypt's governorates over the past few days, has left many car owners fuming.
The petrol stations in Cairo have run out of 80-octane gasoline and micro-bus and car drivers became like "patients" looking (...)
CAIRO - The Minister of Agriculture confirmed 10,228 cases of foot-and-mouth disease in five governorates, with 704 calves having died.
Minister Mohamed Reda Ismail said that the calves had died in the governorates of Gharbiya, Alexandria, (...)
CAIRO - Egypt today witnesses a key historic event as eleven public figures, vying to replace ousted president Hosni Mubarak, are expected to register their names for contesting the first post-revolution multi-candidate presidential poll that will (...)
CAIRO - Mrs. Umayya Yousef Ka'aki, the wife of the Saudi Ambassador to Egypt Ahmed Kattan, has visited to the Cairo-based Children's Cancer Hospital and inspected its in-patient and out-patient clinics.
Mrs. Kattan was welcomed by the hospital's (...)
CAIRO - More than 2,000 feminists, who are dismayed that Egypt's revolution is failing to advance their cause, marched through Cairo streets and squares Thursday to defend their rights. The women demanded increasing their representation in the (...)
CAIRO Police have launched a large-scale manhunt for some young thugs thought to be behind a lightning attack that damaged a number of gates and turnstiles in Sadat Tube Station Saturday afternoon, security authorities said.
More than ten (...)
CAIRO - Presidential hopeful Amr Moussa has pledged to immediately abolish the notorious emergency law, which has long been a call by all Egyptians since 1981, and build a new Egypt if he were to win the forthcoming presidential elections.
The law, (...)
CAIRO – The newly elected Shura Council (the upper house of the Egyptian Parliament) held its maiden session after its Islamist members elected Dr. Ahmed Fahmi as a new chairman.
Dr. Fahmi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice (...)
CAIRO - The newly elected Shura Council (the upper house of the Egyptian Parliament) held its maiden session after its Islamist members elected Dr. Ahmed Fahmi as a new chairman.
Dr. Fahmi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice (...)
CAIRO - The North Cairo Criminal Court Sunday starts the trial of 43 pro-democracy activists, including around 20 American citizens, from mostly US civil society groups on the alleged charges of working illegally in Egypt, judicial sources said (...)
CAIRO - The police said that they launched a big man-hunt for three unidentified male suspects in connection with the assault on a leading Islamist candidate for the presidency on the outskirts of Cairo late on Thursday.
They said that Abdul Moneim (...)
CAIRO - The Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, held talks in Cairo Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the latest regional developments and issues of bilateral (...)
CAIRO - Thousands of Cairo commuters are expected to be catching a new metro to work and home on Tuesday after 2:00 PM, when Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri opens the underground line connecting Attaba to Abbassiya, Ministry of Transportation (...)
CAIRO - Many young people celebrated Saint Valentine's Day yesterday with red roses, heart-shaped cakes and chocolates, although some religiously minded people dismissed celebrating the feast day of this Christian saint as un-Islamic.
But that (...)