Pictured is a Canadian man, working on an international project in Juba, South Sudan, who decided to fly north to Cairo to see in 2013.
Pictured is a Canadian man, working on an international project in Juba, South Sudan, who decided to fly north to (...)
The Eid this year was particularly special for one Canadian citizen, who flew into Cairo just in time for the feast. After depositing his luggage at his hotel, his first port of call was – yes, you've guessed – Floor 11 in the Gomhuria Building, (...)
CAIRO - London is famous for its red, double-decker buses, but then again Alexandria is famous for its double-decker trams.
Pictured is one of these trams, towing a single-decker carriage (not visible in the photo), which has just pulled into (...)
CAIRO - Pictured are too teenagers, brothers, selling watches near Attaba Tube Station, an area which swarms with vendors selling all manner of things, many of them imported from China, getting in the way of hot and bothered pedestrians! They use (...)
CAIRO - This photo was taken early one morning on the stairs in a block of flats just a couple of hundred yards from Torah Prison, where many senior members of the former regime are currently imprisoned.
Unlike these once-powerful officials, (...)
CAIRO - The Cairo Atelier in downtown Cairo is currently holding three exhibitions of the works of young artists – from South Korea, Egypt and Libya respectively.
Kim Hyun Ju, aged 28, has a degree in fine arts from Dantook University in Korea. She (...)
CAIRO - Not every foreigner flew home when the popular uprising started here late on January 25. Two of those who stayed and carried on working spoke briefly to me of what they felt as the mercury began to rise boil would be a better word.
Social (...)
A disastrous career change: A lady in her forties, who has 19 previous convictions for immorality, drug dealing and failing to honour IOUs, has just got herself into trouble again.
It all started when she got chatting to a microbus driver who gave (...)
No divorce for dangerous housewife:A housewife in Kafr el-Bustan near Damietta
got two of her male relatives to help her set her husband alight, because he refused to divorce her, so that she could marry her lover.
The victim is being treated in (...)
Amira comes home: Police in el-Sharqia Governorate have reunited the daughter of the deputy chairman of Faqous City with his daughter, Amira, who'd run away from home and gone to stay with a girlfriend in Cairo.
Amira, a senior school pupil, had (...)
Killed on the Corniche: Police are probing the death of a former convict whose body was found on the Corniche in Beni Sueif, about 60 miles south of Cairo. Mohamed Moustafa (27) had been stabbed more than 30 times.
Nasty shocks: A 20-year-old (...)
The cravings have ended: A young man in Raml, Alexandria committed suicide because his mother refused to give him money with which to buy the drugs he craved. The 24-year-old victim, named only as Ahmed, was unemployed.
When his mother wouldn't help (...)
Indecent on the Internet: A farmer stabbed his wife to death in the village of Gomhour near Fashn in Beni Sueif Governorate, when he discovered photos and a video clip of her on an Internet website. The victim was named as Saeeda Gaber.
It was when (...)
Decapitation in the Delta: Shebeen el-Kom Criminal Court has sentenced a driver to life imprisonment, having found him guilty of murdering a little boy.
He cut the boy's head off, because he was angry with his father for spreading nasty rumours (...)
Life in Cairo is changing all the time. For those of us who live here constantly for many years, the changes may be hardly discernible. But if you've lived here for perhaps half a century and look back all those years, the changes can be brought (...)
What a load of rubbish
The good people of Ezbet el-Noura in el-Khosous, Qaliubia Governorate are suffering from a huge mountain of rubbish that is growing ever higher, neatly filling the gap between two blocks of flats.
El-Khosous Town Council has (...)
There's no escape
It was a technical fault in the locomotive that caused a prison train travelling from Aswan to Cairo to break down between Kafr Shehata and the village of el-Metania, near el-Ayyat, about 30 miles south of Cairo, a place notorious (...)
Cocaine kills: El-Ismailia Criminal Court has sentenced a farmer from an Arab country to death, having found him guilty of trying to smuggle 25kg of cocaine worth LE30 million into the country, via Port Nuweiba. It was last December that security (...)
Decapitation in the Delta: A young man in el-Mahalla el-Kobra in the Delta Governorate of el-Gharbia used a scythe to kill his elder sister as they argued over the family inheritance. The suspect, a worker, has been arrested.
Mohamed Abdel-Moneim (...)
Suspected of rape: A man suspected of raping a schoolgirl in Alexandria is helping detectives with their inquiries.
The 38-year-old suspect, a customs official, lives in the Montazah district of Alex, very near his victim.
The official lured the (...)
Blasted barber: An unemployed man in Tema, Sohag Governorate shot a barber; the pair had fallen out over money.
The 28-year-old victim, Farid Saber, who lived in el-Salam district, died of his injuries in Tema Central Hospital.
His killer was (...)
Was he shot?: Detectives are investigating the death of a civil servant, whose decaying body they found in Abul Numrus, the 6th of October governorate.
The police were called in when the owner of a workshop reported a vile smell seeping out of the (...)
Bragging behind bars
Detectives have made a breakthrough in the case of a businessman called Essam Fathallah, who owns the famous Fathallah chain of supermarkets in Alexandria and whose office was burgled in 2006.
Four years later, they have (...)
Little knifeman
A packet of crisps was responsible for a boy of nine in Sharqia Governorate ending up in hospital and another boy of only seven being sent to a care home. The former was admitted in a serious condition, with deep wounds to the (...)
Unanswered questions: Police are investigating the kidnapping of a three-week-old baby from a private clinic in el-Ismailia.
The little girl's mother, Naglaa (29), reported her missing at Mashtoul el-Souq Police Station.
She told detectives that (...)