It was an ordinary day at the 57357 Children's Cancer Hospital. Children enduring the physical and emotional turmoil of cancer and its treatment were arriving for appointments, undergoing chemotherapy, or lying in bed. But in one calm corner of the (...)
Around 150 students from 13 universities representing ten countries had the chance to discuss important topics at the Model African Union throughout Egypt this month. Among the topics was the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), discussed during (...)
After a year in prison, activists launched a social media campaign in the early hours of Monday to free prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah.
The Cairo Criminal Court gave Abdel Fattah a five-year prison sentence, in addition to an EGP 100,000 fine (...)
The government needs to move beyond merely providing citizens with the state budget to seeking their participation, said Minister of Finance Hany Dimian during a workshop on the second issuance of the citizen budget.
"This workshop comes as a step (...)
Customer service jobs in Egypt have one of the highest turnover rates in business, constantly hiring and providing opportunities for entry level employees. Usually benefitting from one month of paid training, a new employee in customer service has (...)
Lines of iftar tables stretch out in front of the Kasr Al-Dobara Evangelical Church in Tahrir Square every Friday and Saturday evening, while Ramadan and national songs are played from 5:30 to 7 pm.
“We want to spread love and respect with our (...)
A 4.3 km line of tables on the seaside gained Alexandria a place in the Guinness Book of World Records on Friday.
The line, which surpassed Italy's 2 km line in July 2014, was put together with the aim of promoting Alexandria worldwide. It stretched (...)
The Cairo Criminal Court renewed Saturday the pre-trial detention of photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid for a further 45 days.
Abou Zeid, also known as Shawkan, has been detained with 300 others for over a year without trial. He was arrested while (...)
The US issued the Country Reports on Terrorism for the year 2014 on Friday, outlining Egyptian law enforcement and security personnel achieved "limited successes in battling terrorists in its territory".
The report identified two main terrorist (...)
Detained photojournalist Esraa El-Taweel received a renewed detention until investigation on 28 June, after spending over two weeks in forced disappearance.
El-Taweel stood before state security prosecution on Wednesday but was not put under (...)
The Red Sea coast town of Dahab, meaning “gold”, was a fishing village before it was transformed into a tourism resort. It takes its name from the colour of its beaches. Located 100 km north of Sharm El-Sheikh, Dahab embraces its visitors with (...)
Sixteen days after her disappearance, photojournalist Esraa El-Taweel was seen in an Al-Qanater Prison detention cell, Freedom for the Brave campaign said Tuesday.
El-Taweel, Suhaib Saad, and Omar Mohamed had gone missing on 1 June at approximately (...)
Ten international human rights organisations denounced the increasing pressure by Egyptian authorities on independent organisations that receive foreign funding or have criticised government policies, said a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report (...)
Britain's monarch Queen Elizabeth II honoured Saturday two Egyptians for "outstanding services" to British society as part of her Birthday Honours list.
Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK received an Order of the British Empire (...)
A court in South Africa ordered Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir to remain in the country after the International Criminal Court (ICC) called for his arrest for war crimes.
Al-Bashir had arrived to attend the African Union's 25th Summit taking (...)
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said on Sunday that African presidents assured their attendance at the opening ceremony of the new Suez Canal project in August.
Mehleb arrived Saturday in Johannesburg to head Egypt's delegation to the African Union (...)
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb arrived Saturday in Johannesburg to head Egypt's delegation to the African Union Summit in the place of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi.
Al-Sisi cancelled his visit and delegated Mehleb on Thursday after the South (...)
It was 30 years ago that former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak had left the Ethiopian airport to attend an African summit, when he was almost killed minutes after arrival. Since then, Egypt's African relations were never the same.
Looking back at (...)
The government referred the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) to investigation on Tuesday, following a hearing at the European Parliament denouncing human rights' violations in Egypt.
An investigating judge in the NGO foreign funding (...)
The former editor-in-chief of Daily News Egypt, Maher Hamoud, won an irregular honorary award during the 40th anniversary celebration of the European Union Visitors Programme last week.
Hamoud was awarded for his recent series of articles, entitled (...)
By Tim Nanns and Aya Nader
With a group of celebrities and public figures, the burden of Egypt's recovering economy, and fingers pointing to human rights violations, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's visit to Germany was accompanied by a variety of (...)
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said Wednesday that the return of displaced families to Beni Suef through a new customary session is an incomplete step, and will not solve the sectarian tension.
A village in Beni Suef has (...)
The sentenced Alexandrian labour activist Mahienour El-Massry once said from her prison cell that "sacrifice is nothing compared to the suffering of the poor".
The lawyer and member of the Revolutionary Socialists Movement was sentenced, Sunday, to (...)
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir arrived Sunday in Egypt for his first visit since his appointment last April to hold talks over the situation in the Arab region.
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, met with his Saudi counterpart and (...)
The Court for Urgent Matters in Abdeen rejected Sunday the appeal filed by the Pharmacists' Syndicate against a court decision to put it under judicial guardianship.
The ruling was issued one year ago, on 31 May 2014, citing the now-banned Muslim (...)