In the blistering heat of a Cairo summer, it often seems easiest to hide inside, avoiding the omnipresent heat wave.
But, there are some things done best in the midst of summer. An outdoor movie and ice cream immediately come to mind. A trip to (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's economy will continue to decline for the next fiscal year, but the country's financial system has endured the global economic crisis fairly well, said the International Monetary Fund to Egypt in a report this week.
The findings by (...)
CAIRO: Three students from the American University in Cairo's Department of Mechanical Engineering will be heading to San Diego at the end of August to attend a major competition organized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Ahmed (...)
CAIRO: At a Revolution Day celebration in Alexandria on Sunday, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel announced that postal workers shall receive significant bonuses for their recent performance.
Kamel made the (...)
CAIRO: Closure could be brought to two long-standing, unrelated legal sagas in Egypt: that of the kidnapping and "sale of babies and 200,000 bags of contaminated blood which were sold to the Ministry of Health by medical supply company (...)
CAIRO: Human rights group Amnesty International is calling for the release of jailed prisoners of conscience Musaad Abu Fagr and Kareem Amer.
Amnesty International and other human rights groups consider their imprisonment unlawful both because (...)
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak attended on Monday the Union for the Mediterranean s second annual meeting in Milan. He addressed those gathered for the event, speaking to the need for greater cooperation among Mediterranean nations in the realms of (...)
CAIRO: Upwards of 100 postal workers gathered outside the Central Post Authority in Attaba Monday in a protest demanding higher wages and better working conditions.
The protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations by postal (...)
CAIRO: Minya teacher and poet Mounir Said Hanna Marzuq was acquitted Saturday on charges of insulting the president, according to a release by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI).
The 55-year-old, who works in El-Adwa, in the (...)
The recently restored Japanese Garden in Helwan makes for an excellent afternoon s escape, just 40 minutes away from central Cairo.
Now in its eighth decade and the recipient of a major makeover, completed last year, many online sources still (...)
CAIRO: Journalist at weekly tabloid Sout Al-Umma, Alaa Al-Gamal, who was subjected to violent assault by police officers allegedly upon orders from the Ministry of Interior, has threatened to sue a ministry official for libel on behalf of his (...)
CAIRO: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Cuban leader Raul Castro chaired the opening session of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement summit in Sharm El-Sheikh Wednesday.
The title of this year's summit is (...)
CAIRO: The 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement kicks into high gear today in Sharm El-Sheikh. Foreign ministers and other officials have already begun preliminary meetings for the conference which will come to a close on Thursday.
As of this (...)
The Mogamma. Much has been made of the administrative building which looms over Tahrir Square in all her majesty. And though loathed by many, its persistence in the Egyptian imaginary is remarkable.
Construction began in 1950, under the auspices (...)
CAIRO: Hot on the heels of Israeli President Shimon Peres' meeting with President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo earlier this week, the Israeli press has latched onto the succession scenario that has dominated local media debates in recent weeks.
The (...)
CAIRO: About 35 protestors gathered outside the German Embassy in Zamalek Tuesday to denounce the murder of Egyptian Marwa Al-Sherbini, who was stabbed to death on July 1 in a Dresden courtroom. People came to honor Al-Sherbini and demand action and (...)
CAIRO: Egypt s economic growth rate for the third quarter of this fiscal year stood at 4.7 percent, according to a report released by the Ministry of Finance, a slight increase over the previous quarter.
Cairo-based investment bank Beltone (...)
fRiday mornings are the best time for walks in Cairo. The traffic is calm and the streets are relatively empty, with weekday commuters at home with their families. The mood is more relaxed. And in the summer, it is one of the times of day in which (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas was held Tuesday morning at Cairo Airport and had his laptop and some of his belongings confiscated.
The controversial blogger was returning home after a conference in Sweden when he was stopped by customs (...)
CAIRO: Access to water and proper sanitation are human rights.
That was the message being broadcast loud and clear by UN-appointed independent expert Catarina de Albuquerque Sunday at a press conference held by the United Nations Information (...)
Freestyle street football players gathered at the Wadi Degla Club on the outskirts of Maadi this Friday to participate in a competition that is the first of its kind here.
The event was sponsored by carbonated energy drink company Red Bull, a (...)
CAIRO: Robert Ménard has resigned as the Director-General of the Doha Center for Media Freedom, citing restrictions on the center's actions by the Qatari government. The heads of the assistance, research and communications departments have also (...)
CAIRO: Despite the prohibition on the sale of Tamiflu in pharmacies, the drug continues to be readily available. Tamiflu is effective in the treatment and prevention of swine flu and is currently only legally available in public hospitals.
Swine (...)
CAIRO: Researchers found that Islamic teachings have had a greater impact on modern international refugee law than any other source or body of law.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released a report Tuesday on the (...)
CAIRO: A Chechen Al-Azhar student recently deported to Russia from Egypt has gone missing, according to the Associated Press. Human rights groups have suggested that he was detained by Russian authorities in order to put pressure on his father, a (...)