Egypt's Ultras Green Eagle football team broke into Port Said's capitol building on Wednesday and forced everyone out, chanting for the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The governor of Port Said was scheduled to meet at 3pm with members of various (...)
CAIRO: Plans to clean and renovate the Cairo Tower have reached their half way mark as engineers from Arab Contractors hope to finish the project by December 2007.
Located on Gezira Island in Zamalak, the 187-meter Cairo Tower provides a (...)
CAIRO: A raging legal battle that lasted several years, ended with a court ruling that will allow women wearing the niqab (face veil) to enter the American University in Cairo (AUC) campus grounds and use its facilities.
The controversy over the (...)
CAIRO: At a press conference held at the Nile Hilton hotel on Sunday, Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garana assessed Egypt s progress in the tourism industry in 2006-07.
Accompanying Garana was Galal Dowedar, head of the Foreign Press Association (...)
CAIRO: Representatives from the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brazil) and the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) arrived Monday to strengthen business relations between Brazil and Egypt.
The three-day visit to (...)
CAIRO: The Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange (Case) and Korea Exchange, Inc. (KRX) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Thursday to facilitate exchange of information between both exchanges.
Inherent in their partnership is mutual long (...)
CAIRO: As homeless residents of Qalet Al Kabsh continue to file complaints, officials from the Cairo governorate paid a short visit to the bulldozed area on Saturday to promise relocation.
The development plan to relocate 300 apartment buildings (...)
Sakkara's glass art museum opens its doors to visitors
Glass is a combination of sand that is fused in contact with something called a flux. The substances used for this purpose are lead, borax, arsenic, niter, or any alkaline matter. When (...)
CAIRO: A development plan was initiated under the auspices of the First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak to relocate the inhabitants of 300 apartment buildings consumed by a fire last March in Qalet Al Kabsh. That number has now doubled after another group of (...)
Pope sends a memorandum to the President discussing injustice
CAIRO: The Middle East Christians Association (Meca) released a statement last week condemning the Coptic Church's attitude in dealing with Muslim-Coptic relations.
Nader Fawzy, (...)
CAIRO: The Ahli United Bank Group celebrated the acquisition of Delta International Bank, one of Egypt s leading private banks in a press conference held at the Four Seasons Garden City, Monday. Reviewing its progress over the past decade, the Ahli (...)
CAIRO: The National Committee for the Control of Viral Hepatitis (NCCVH) held a press conference Tuesday in Nasr City announcing the launch of a hepatitis awareness campaign.
The first national viral hepatitis day festival is set to take place (...)
CAIRO: After graduating high school from her hometown of Quito, Ecuador, Janan Delgado moved to Cairo to study Arabic. From her adolescence, Janan knew she was different because of her religious background.
"I started out as the only veiled girl (...)
CAIRO: The three-day World Economic Forum (WEF) on the Middle East kicked off in the Dead Sea in Jordan on Friday, where Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid will be attending along with a number Egyptian businessmen and (...)
NEW DELHI, India: Unlike the Indian cricket team that at least looks stronger on paper but fails to deliver, New Delhi's local power generating units are neither strong on paper nor in reality.
Every summer Delhi residents are forced to sweat as (...)
The American University in Cairo's (AUC) Office of Student Development and Writing program held its two day annual undergraduate research conference. Celebrating its third year, AUC faculty members chose 50 students to present their work before (...)
CAIRO: Residents from 13 Hart El-Gamal St. of Sayyeda Zeinab are now homeless after their building collapsed early Sunday morning.
"The collapse occurred when workers were trying to find out where the cracking noise was coming from, said Kalaat (...)
GENEVA: The United Nations is holding a two day conference in Geneva to focus attention on the plight of Iraqi refugees. More than 2 million Iraqis have fled to neighboring countries and almost that many again are displaced inside Iraq.
Antonio (...)
CAIRO: Last Monday the People s Assembly approved 34 constitutional amendments to be subjected to a public referendum Monday. Of those none address the concerns of Egypt's Coptic minority, say prominent public figures.
Article 2 states that the (...)
ALEXANDRIA: Following a rigorous selection processes in their home countries and months of preparation, participants from the Middle East and North Africa region initiated the first Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament (EMYP) simulation in Alexandria (...)
CAIRO: After several hours of prosecution at the Galaa Courthouse, 21 Kefaya detainees were released from the State Security Dhahrar prison near Abbasiya on Saturday.
The Kefaya activists were arrested late Thursday night after marching in a (...)
CAIRO: Demonstrations organized by the Kefaya National Movement for Change and opposition parties against proposed constitutional amendments were met with a massive state security sweep in downtown Cairo on Thursday.
Over 30 Kefaya activists were (...)
CAIRO: On Tuesday, the UN Refugee Agency circulated a press release protesting the deportation of a recognized Iraqi refugee by Turkish authorities.
Jennifer Pagonis spokesperson for the Office of High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, said in (...)
CAIRO: In Europe, Iraqi applications for asylum have doubled over the past three years. But European countries have not offered much refuge, with one big exception: Sweden.
In 2006 almost 9,000 Iraqis applied for asylum in the rich Scandinavian (...)
CAIRO: The US department of public diplomacy and public affairs recently announced that the United States will accept 7,000 Iraqi refugees who will be screened and approved this year by the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (...)