"The revolution is not 18 days, nor a year, or two. The revolution is permanent. The fact that we, women, have not reached our aspirations does not mean we should lose hope,” women's rights activist Mariam Kirollos told Ahram Online.
Kirollos said (...)
"Actions undertaken to help others, despite the possibility that they may result in the helper's death or injury." So American psychologists Becker and Eagly defined the word "heroism" – and the protesters of last year's Mohamed Mahmoud clashes (...)
"Down with military rule!" chanted Copts, interrupting last January's Christmas mass at Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral. The protesters were reacting to Pope Shenouda's decision to invite members of the then-ruling military council to attend (...)
“I started playing wheelchair basketball when I was 16 years old. Back then I dreamed that the poor conditions of the sport would get better. I am now 32 years old, and nothing has changed,” said Mohamed Farag, a wheelchair basketball team player (...)
Congested streets in the capital where 20 million people live are a daily nightmare for Cairenes and cost the country billions of pounds. Ahram Online talks to experts about the roots and solutions for the problem
In the last few years, Cairo (...)
"If women continue to silently put up with the daily sexual harassment in the Egyptian streets, the society will witness new crimes as a result of the mounting oppression women feel when they get harassed," said Noha Roshdy four years ago when she (...)
The strained Egypt-Iran relationship has long been marked by pragmatism by both sides. But with President Morsi gearing up to visit Tehran, how far will the Brotherhood go to open a new chapter with the Islamic Republic?
President Mohamed Morsi is (...)
The renowned American political scientist Norman Finkelstein said he is hopeful that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be resolved soon at a recent lecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He argued that significant changes at the regional (...)
Facing an uncertain future at home, and wracked by memories of the horrors committed in war, many US veterans question the motives behind eight years of combat in Iraq and say US occupation continues
More than two million Americans have been (...)
CAIRO: A new statue was unearthed during the excavations in the area of Amenhotep III at the West Bank of the Nile River. The colored statue is made of quartzite, 10.65 meters, its weight 100 tons.
The excavations started in the site seven months (...)
CAIRO: Supporters of Egyptian presidential candidate Hazem Salah Abu Ismail joined the ‘Friday of one demand' demonstration today in Tahrir Square.
They said they will arrange a sit-in until the constitutional principles document drafted by (...)
Following an “International Day of Solidarity” on 12 November, during which activists around the world demonstrated in solidarity with Egypt's ongoing revolution, new marches are being organised this week – in the Arab world and beyond – to protest (...)
Some 500 people on Saturday gathered for the 12th annual march to abolish the death penalty in Austin, Texas. Organised by several Texas-based NGOs, the march was led by 25 exonerated prisoners who spent years on death row for crimes they did not (...)
CAIRO: Center of Creation Cinema of Cairo Opera House will present a documentary film on Friday October 28 about the Cairo Opera in the 40th anniversary of Cairo Opera burning.
Egyptian Minister of Culture Emaad Abu Ghazi and director of Cultural (...)
As the “Occupy Wall Street” protests in the US enter their third week, American critics complain that the mainstream media is doing its best to downplay the phenomenon.
“The US media intensively covered Egypt's recent youth revolution; its struggles (...)
“Even if you are a Christian, you should cover your hair,” Rania Assad, an Egyptian Christian living now in Oman, was told by a professor at the Cairo University School of Medicine 12 years ago. Assad explained that despite living for six years in (...)
Some have started 'Occupying Austin' in the capital city of the southern, conservative state of Texas, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spread across the US to protest corporate greed and foreign wars
Hundreds of people (...)
CAIRO: Permanent Committee of the Egyptian Archeology will allow foreign archeological missions to restore several monuments and sites around Egypt.
Several foreign archeological missions will do the restorations, including from the Polish (...)
CAIRO: Protesting archeology workers threatened to begin into work and hunger strikes, close all archeological sites, and steal monuments from museums and stores if their demands are not met.
Protestors are continuing their sit-in, which began (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian concerts and photos exhibitions about the January 25 Revolution will be performed and exhibited in six European countries including Vienna, Budapest, Slovakia, Bratislava, Maribor, and Venice. The events will start from September 6 (...)
CAIRO: Archeologist Mohammad Abdel Rahman considers himself an unknown hero of the January 25 Revolution.
After monuments were stolen from the Egyptian Museum during the unrest, Abdel Rahman masqueraded as an archeological broker. After two weeks (...)
CAIRO: After being the biggest open-air museum in the world since it was restored three years ago, Muizz Street in old Cairo turned into public car park due to the absence of security.
Thus the Islamic monuments are threatened day after day by (...)
CAIRO: Members of 15 Egyptian political parties and Sufi movements held a conference yesterday to establish “The Egyptian Block.”
This political group intends to align parliamentary, electoral and political coordination among all political (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) will host a Ramadan festival in the Sareiatt al-Gabal at the Saladin Citadel of Cairo. This will be the third festival in as many years.
The festival will last through Ramadan 20.
The (...)
CAIRO: A number of 19 archeological pieces were restored from the Metropolitan Museum of Mew York and will be displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
The Egyptian Museum finished all registry processes with the pieces belonging to the Pharaoh (...)