Anyone who grew up in the 1980s remembers the buzz around those mysterious new machines called computers. From sci fi movies, features in newspapers and magazines, to “experts” talking on the two miserable Egyptian state television channels – the (...)
Hundreds of angry Copts cut the Autostrade and Salah Salem Road, blocking the traffic from 10 pm until around midnight on Wednesday evening, protesting the Samalout train shooting, which left one Copt dead.
Central Security Forces were deployed, (...)
The government, panicked by the effect the recent shark attacks have had on tourism, is damaging the ecological balance in the South Sinai coastal region, as well as tourism, charge Sharm experts and divers
Leading figures in the Sharm El-Sheikh's (...)
Sharm El-Sheikh will be open for diving tomorrow, but only for those divers with at least 50 logged dives, according to Hisham Gabr of the Chamber of Diving and Water Sports.
Authorities had shut down all snorkeling and diving activities in (...)
A female German tourist, 70, died in a shark attack this morning, north of Ne'ama Bay, south of Sinai, according to sources in the Red Sea province. The attack took place close to the Hyatt Regency hotel beach.
Earlier in the day, there were (...)
As the government steps up its efforts in hunting sharks in the Red Sea, marine life experts and the diving community have lashed out against the measures taken.
Three foreign snorkelers were attacked on 30 November and 1 December, suffering (...)
Hundreds of Egyptian workers demonstrated Saturday in downtown Cairo, calling for raising the national minimum wage.
Protesters assembled in front of the ministerial cabinet in Hussein Hegazi Street, from 11 AM to roughly 2 PM. Central Security (...)
A coalition of labor groups and NGOs will be demonstrating tomorrow 11 AM in downtown Cairo, calling for raising the national minimum wage.
The national minimum wage in Egypt is LE35 a month, and remains unchanged since 1984. Labor activists want (...)
The saga of Islam Online (IOL) took an abrupt 11th hour turn Wednesday night--apparently in favor for the more than 200 staffers who walked off their jobs and had mostly resigned themselves to leaving the influential Islamic news website.
Strikers (...)
The two leading state-run Arabic dailies Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar most of the time bear similar news, photos, if not identical headlines. Today is no different. Both papers highlighted President Mubarak's meeting with the Saudi foreign minister in (...)
The two major government-run dailies, Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar, had today similar frontpages, highlighting President Hosni Mubarak's visit to the UAE to discuss regional matters, such as Iraq and Iran. The two papers also ran statements from the (...)
On the morning of January 30 in 2007, two buses arrived from Mahalla to Cairo's Shoubra district, parking a block away from the headquarters of the General Union of Textile Workers.
The bus was carrying around 200 workers from the Misr Spinning and (...)
On occasions, coverage of Marwa El Sherbini's was influenced by players' agendas, Hossam el-Hamalawy writes.
The gruesome murder of the 32-year-old Marwa El Sherbini was first reported by the Youm7 website on the 2nd of July, one day after the crime (...)
In a solidarity meeting in Cairo, the Tanta Flax and Oil Company workers renewed their call for the nationalization of their factory, threatening to take over the factory and run it independently from the investor and the government if the latter (...)
Born in Los Angeles, California, in 1951, Charles Glass is a broadcaster, journalist and author of several books, who began his journalistic career in 1973 at the ABC News Beirut bureau. He covered the October 1973 War on the Egyptian and Syrian (...)
On Saturday, virtually all publications, independent and state-owned, devoted wide coverage to the death of the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson, with background stories about his life, reactions from the fans, causes of death, etc. The local press (...)
Egypt's leading construction tycoon, Hisham Talaat Mustapha, was sentenced to death today together with a former State Security officer for the death of a Lebanese singer. The verdict comes on the heels of a record number of death sentences issued (...)
While the world's, almost undivided, attention was given to the Iranian events last week, the Egyptian (both state-owned and independent) press focused instead on local issues, that varied from national football team matches, health crisis and the (...)
US President Obama's visit to Egypt dominated the headlines of the local publications over the past week. The latter's largely positive coverage however contrasted sharply with the online media, writes Hossam El Hamallawy
As early as the beginning (...)
The young man in his 20s, known as "Ahmad" looks frightened, shivering as his naked body bleeds from several wounds that have been inflicted with Swiss knives and blades.
He is subjected to ridicule, insults, sexual abuse and more stabs from five or (...)
An editorial titled "The Death of Youth Activism in Egypt? , which ran in Daily News Egypt on April 11, said:
"The April 6 Youth Movement was born from the events of April 6 last year when, using Facebook, blogs, text messaging, independent media (...)