Ahmed Atef, the coordinator of Doctors' Youth Coalition, mysteriously disappeared while on duty at Nile Hospital in Shubra, said Engy Abdallah, a doctor and one of the coordinators of an ongoing doctors strike, on Thursday morning.
The Doctors' (...)
Hundreds of Egyptian doctors on arrived at the headquarters of the doctors' general election committee at Al-Azhar Conference Center Friday morning to participate in the first Doctors Syndicate election since they were suspended 20 years ago.
The (...)
Amnesty International described a video of police and army officers torturing detainees that was recently released online as “deeply unsettling” Thursday and expressed concern that the detainees might still be subjected to torture and ill (...)
Egypt ranks 73 on the Global Peace Index 2011, published on Wednesday by the Vision of Humanity Foundation, a non-profit organization comprising a group of advocates for world peace based in Australia.
Iceland ranks in first place as the most (...)
BARCELONA - At its weekly meeting on Friday, the Spanish government gave the green light to approve Egypt's request to extradite businessman Hussein Salem, who holds Egyptian and Spanish nationalities.
This came at the request of the Spanish (...)
Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Ahmed Fathallah on Tuesday flew to Spain to attend the inauguration of the new secretary general at the Union for the Mediterranean.
Sources said Fathallah discussed the case of wanted Egyptian business tycoon Hussein (...)
Spain's attorney general has asked that Egyptian business tycoon Hussein Salem be kept under house arrest, event after he pays his bail of 27 million euros, fearing he might escape from Spain, according to Spanish judicial sources.
The sources added (...)
Hussein Salem has not yet paid bail because he has yet to find “clean” sources of money, said senior Spanish judicial sources and Egyptian sources following investigations into the wanted business tycoon.
Salem has close personal ties to Mubarak and (...)
An Egyptian source following the Spanish government's investigations into Egyptian business tycoon Hussein Salem said it is investigating whether Hussein obtained his Spanish nationality through legal means.
The source, however, did not know what (...)
In his first visit to Egypt since unrest broke out in January, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, said the revolution has not yet ended. He said Egypt has become more open than ever before, though the military junta that (...)
Minister of Antiquites Zahi Hawass said he would send the German government an official request next week to return the Nefertiti bust that is displayed in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.
“We have documented proof that the bust was illegally smuggled (...)
US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanie Verveer has stressed the need for the inclusion of women in the committee tasked with drafting the constitution.
According to the constitutional declaration under which Egypt will be governed (...)
Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of the Central Administration of Lower and Upper Egypt Antiquities, has announced that 27 artifacts are missing from the Tal al-Pharaeen warehouse in the Delta city of Kafr al-Sheikh.
The missing items include 20 bronze (...)
Egyptian Museum Curator Tarek al-Awady said 54 antiquities were stolen from the museum on 28 January, the day police withdrew from the streets of Cairo, and especially from Tahrir Square, where the museum is located.
Al-Awady sent a list of the (...)
Police forces returned on Wednesday to Cairo's Tahrir Square for the first time in 40 days.
On Friday, 28 January, police forces made a controversial retreat following bloody encounters with pro-democracy protesters at the square who were demanding (...)
At a symposium held on Wednesday concerning the future of Egyptian political parties after the revolution, Muslim Brotherhood leader Abul Fottouh said extremism has tarnished Islam.
“Iran forced the veil by law and France prohibited it by law,” he (...)
Former Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, former Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass, and Director of Alexandria's National Museum Ibrahim Darwish filed a complaint to Alexandria's Public Prosecutor against Yasser Seif, head of the (...)
In the first surprise by the new Egyptian government headed by Ahmed Shafiq, Minister of Culture Gaber Asfour rendered his resignation for purported health reasons.
Some believe Asfour resigned due to disapproval from intellectuals against his (...)
“We all stand against the inheritance of power, including President Hosni Mubarak himself,” Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said this week in exclusive statements to Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Hosni ruled out the possibility that Egypt would witness a (...)
The Ministry of Culture Thursday postponed the 43rd Cairo International Book Fair from 26 January until 29 January. The ministry delayed the book fair, which will run until 8 February, because more preparation time was needed.
The Ministry of (...)
Abassiya Psychiatric Hospital building was classified as a “historic landmark” by the committee of experts in Islamic and modern monuments on Tuesday. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), had formed the (...)
A group of tourists are believed to have drawn red Stars of David on the walls of the Seti I ruins in the Abydos area of Sohag Governorate. Temple officials said the defacements were new but Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (...)
The Egyptian Museum souvenir center, which opened last week, made LE100,000 in revenues on Friday, up from LE50,000 on Thursday, according to Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
Although the center has proved a (...)
President Hosni Mubarak will inaugurate Egypt's new Museum of Civilization in September of next year, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced this week.
“Committees will be drawn up to follow up on progress on the museum and efforts will be (...)
Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has dismissed allegations that he personally denied Raymond Stock, a US author and translator, entry into Egypt.
Stock labelled Hosni's antipathy to Israel as “instinctive” during the latter's quest for the (...)