In congested traffic, where everyone longs to get out of the jam, huge clouds of black fumes are emitted, rubbing salt into the wound. Unfortunately, if you're a resident of Cairo, you've probably seen this all thousands of times before.
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As protesters filled Tahrir Square to mark the second anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, the vibes seemed to say, 'Women are unwelcome here'.
The fact that more than 20 cases of group sexual assaults on female protesters have been documented (...)
She left her home one hour before her 2pm shift at work last week, hoping that this would be enough time for her to make a trip that usually took 20 minutes but now takes much longer, because of the daily traffic jams around downtown.
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After another fight about getting married, a 29-year-old woman hurries to her bedroom, feeling devastated. On her way, she passes by her 38-year-old brother, who is also single, but without the drama.
This scene is commonly found almost everywhere (...)
When Hailey first chose Egypt to be the case study for her PhD thesis on tourism at the end of 2010, little could she have imagined what was about to happen. She was certainly taken aback by the revolution.
Like many non-Egyptians currently living (...)
There is an American idea, value or fashion nearly everywhere. They creep into your world, your home and even your mind, carried and presented by sweethearts like Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Meryl Streep.
It is Hollywood that is responsible for (...)
When watching TV, reading newspapers or even talking to random strangers in the street, you can see the fear of a financial crisis. You realise how much this transitional phase has affected business in this most populous Arab country.
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PARIS (dpa) – Interpol on Sunday issued its highest-level warrant for the arrest of Moamer Gaddafi's former spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, at Libya's request.
The Red Notice, described by Interpol as “the closest instrument to an international (...)
COLOGNE – With his work starting at 7am, Ali Bouzaid spends the whole Ramadan day preparing typical Turkish and Arabic dishes and desserts in a small restaurant in the heart of the German city of Cologne.
Bouzaid, a 25-year-old Iraqi, has been (...)
HEIDELBERG - With a collection of ancient Egyptian amulets, ancient texts in various languages and magical imagery and objects, 2,000 years of Egyptian magic are being on show now in the Museum of Heidelberg University.
Once you enter the beautiful (...)
CAIRO - With the major changes sweeping Egypt two months after the anti-Mubarak revolt, university students keep a high profile in effecting what they see as necessary reforms on the campus.
Over the past three weeks, the Faculty of Mass (...)
In a bid to institutionalise commercial mediation for business dispute resolution, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank, launched in Cairo yesterday its Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) (...)
CAIRO - Using only national IDs or passports, Egyptians of different ages and political affiliations voted on the constitutional amendments.
The vote witnessed the huge participation of Egyptians, the majority of whom were regarded as apathetic, (...)
CAIRO - The US administration is following the developments in Egypt closely and is quite enthusiastic about supporting the transition process that the country lives and co-operate with whatever government results from it, US official said.
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CAIRO - Hajj Ibrahim Fatouh is one of those who were hurt by the Egyptian revolution that toppled Mubarak's regime last month, albeit it isn't the recession or 'waqf el hal' as Egyptians put it that bothered him; deception did the job.
The 18-day (...)
CAIRO - While hundreds of thousands of Egyptian schoolchildren and university students celebrated the one-week extension of the mid-year holidays, Hamza Mahmoud was lost in despair after hearing the news.
Mahmoud works in a stationary shop in (...)
CAIRO - Three years ago, when Moneim Mokhtar first travelled to Italy on a scholarship, he was also escaping from the gloomy reality he was living here.
Yet, days after the January 25 revolution erupted, he took the first flight back to Cairo. "I (...)
CAIRO - Hours after the resignation of former President Hosni Mubarak Friday evening and after celebrations that lasted till the wee hours, hundreds of thousands of young Egyptians started to call for immediate social changes: changes from (...)
CAIRO - Hours after the release of key detainee Wael Ghoneim from his 12-days detention, thousands of young Egyptians started calling for the one thing he asked them not to consider him the hero of the popular revolt taking place now in (...)
CAIRO - Noura Galal is not paranoid but she learnt years ago to avoid crowds, whenever possible. She knows that crowds instigate many attitude problems, like sexual harassment, from which she has suffered a lot.
Last Friday, this 25-year-old woman (...)
CAIRO - With a variety of colours, lines, words and even numbers, you don't just enjoy looking at the lovely paintings, as you can listen to them too.
In the Art and Music Exhibition, which was inaugurated last Wednesday in the Gezira Art Centre, (...)
CAIRO - Eight Egyptian rioters, affiliated to a youth group calling for reform, will stand an urgent trial Thursday for harassing policemen, destroying cars and jeopardising public security during a protest against a New Year's Eve bombing in (...)
CAIRO - AT the age of 14, he moved from his poor city in South Sudan to the Sudanese capital Khartoum to discover " despite his youth " that the big city was totally different from his small city.
As Envy Baptist, now 35 years old, grew up, the (...)
CAIRO - The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) Sunday slammed as 'political opportunism' remarks made by former chief of the UN nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, in which he lashed out at the Government over a deadly blast outside a church (...)
CAIRO - WITH discussions and presentations on investment opportunities in various sectors, senior Egyptian and Zambian officials and investors came together for a one-day investment forum in Cairo.
The Egypt-Zambia Investment Seminar, held under the (...)