In a small cell in South Cairo Court Complex, a 12-year-old child sat behind bars awaiting his hearing earlier this month. Mohamed Gomaa, a student in his second preparatory year, held his bandaged hand in pain. A hospital doctor would later confirm (...)
The Arab League is convening an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the fate of its observer mission to Syria.
The meeting follows the Syrian regime's continuing brutality against protesters even after it declared cooperation with the (...)
CAIRO: An engineer was badly beaten by an army officer in front of Al-Azhar institution on Wednesday as he accompanied a group of protesters seeking a meeting with the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar.
Essam El-Yamany, a 34-year-old computer science (...)
Equipped with eye patches, dozens gathered in front of the Qasr al-Aini Hospital on Thursday, before heading to Qasr al-Nil Bridge in solidarity with those who lost their eyes during the revolution.
The march was organized by “MeyaSilmeya,” a group (...)
Prices for the Islamic pilgrimage season, which began on Saturday, continue to rise this year. Tourism companies, which control around 65 percent of Hajj visas granted to Egyptians by Saudi Arabia, say the increased prices are due to excellent (...)
A dozen people with special needs decided on Tuesday to suspend their sit-in in front of the cabinet, saying they will give the government three weeks to fulfill their demands.
A day earlier, the protesters threatened to set themselves on fire (...)
A dozen disabled people protesting near the cabinet building on Monday threatened to set themselves on fire unless an official agreed to meet with them and hear their demands on rights and opportunities for Egypt's disabled community.
One man, Lotfy (...)
Cairo's bustling Ramses Square, where street vendors hawk everything from screwdrivers to socks in the center of the city's transportation system, is notorious for swirling traffic-jams. I recently visited the Metro station there (formerly (...)
Ahmed Agiza is no stranger to the brutality of the Egyptian justice system. The 49-year-old Egyptian Islamist was first detained in 1981 during the wave of arrests following Anwar Sadat's assassination. Throughout the 1990s, he was routinely (...)
As President Barrack Obama hailed the “Arab Spring” from Washington, Egyptian security forces moved to take control of the poor Cairo suburb of Ain Shams, where a group of Coptic Christians and Muslim extremists clashed earlier in the day. The (...)
A short walk from Maadi al-Sarayat, one of Cairo's classiest suburbs, is a shabby side street off the railroad tracks of al-Arab district. The market there is full of choreographed chaos, and the neighborhood is filled with workshops and coffee (...)
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health announced Saturday three swine flu deaths, raising the death toll to 48 in Egypt.
The first victim was an 18-year-old pregnant girl from Qaluibiya who was admitted to the intensive care unit suffering from severe (...)
CAIRO: A convoy of Egyptian lawyers, artists and public figures hoping to defuse the tension between Egypt and Algeria in the aftermath of the WC qualifier in Khartoum last month, is planning a reconciliation trip to Algeria.
Refusing the (...)
CAIRO: The resignation of Minister of Transport Mohamed Mansour following Saturday's train crash in Ayyat drew mixed reactions.
The rarity of a minister's resignation and public admittance of responsibility in Egypt's political history left many (...)
CAIRO: Fouad Allam, the former head of State Security Investigations, launched an attack on the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in an exclusive interview with local online news portal Masrawy.com published Wednesday.
Allam told Masrawy that the (...)
CAIRO: Marking Lailat Al Qadr - the night it is believed the first verses of the Quran were revealed to Prophet Mohamed - President Hosni Mubarak gave a speech at Al Azhar University highlighting the need to show the true picture of Islam.
"It's (...)
CAIRO: Eight-year-old Yassin Geassa's drawing depicting gender discrimination was among 14 winning paintings chosen in the European Union's International Drawing Competition on Gender Equality.
In his painting, which earned him a ?1,000 prize, (...)
CAIRO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) issued a statement Monday condemning the government's banning of "Hokouma Show (Government Show), a television program scheduled to run on the Nile Comedy channel.
ANHRI called the (...)
CAIRO: Domestic liquidity increased 6 percent during July and August from LE 45.8 billion to LE 812.4 billion, according to a report issued this week by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE).
Liquidity in the banking sector refers to a bank's ability (...)
CAIRO: The date in which the Pyramid of Cheops in Giza was built can't be determined, an archeological committee said Sunday.
The announcement was in response to calls to mark Aug. 23 as the date in which the great pyramid was completed.
The (...)
CAIRO: Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), will hold a meeting with a committee of archaeologists from the council and public universities to date the Cheops pyramid.
Giza Governor Sayed Abdul Aziz had (...)