CAIRO: Egyptian leather is known for its unique texture, due to Egypt's climate. Egypt's leather industry's annual income is about $600 million. The labor force is made up of about 250,000 workers and has 300 leather tanners. They produce 125 (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian leather is known for its unique texture, due to Egypt's climate. Egypt's leather industry's annual income is about $600 million. The labor force is made up of about 250,000 workers and has 300 leather tanners. They produce 125 (...)
CAIRO: MTN Group Ltd., Africa's largest cellphone network operator, was unable to tie the knot with Egypt's Orascom Telecom in buying its Algerian assets.
MTN issued a statement saying discussions with Orascom's parent company, Weather (...)
CAIRO: The waltz of women's rights keeps moving in Egypt – one step forward, two steps back.
Nasser Amin, director of the Arab Center for the Independent of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP), caught some flack from the chairmen of (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian leather is known for its unique texture, due to Egypt's climate. Egypt's leather Industry's annual income is about $600 million. The labor force is made up of about 250,000 workers and has 300 leather tanners. They produce 125 (...)
CAIRO and PETRA: The first wonder is the Giza Pyramid Complex in Cairo Egypt. The Giza Pyramids are the world's largest pyramids and were built about 5,000 years ago by three Pharaohs and by an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 workers. The pyramids are (...)
CAIRO: Algeria coach Rabah Saadane criticized on Wednesday what he described as the inadequate punishment handed out to Egypt after an attack on his team's bus before November's World Cup qualifier in Cairo.
FIFA found Egypt guilty of (...)
CAIRO: Rima Fakih made history Sunday night as the first Muslim-Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA.
Fakih, 24, won the pageant at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. After her runway walks in the swimsuit and an evening gown (...)
CAIRO: The American University in Cairo (AUC) held its first annual Student Film Festival on May 11, where over 20 short films by seniors were screened in front of a live audience. The screenings were followed by a panel discussion with film experts (...)
CAIRO: Sunday's football match between Al Ahly of Egypt and Libya's Al Ittihad, was at first gruesome for Al Ahly, who needed three goals. Defeat would have meant Al Ahly, the 6-time African champions, would sit out the group stages for the second (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Customs are known to be a bit lax with security at the Cairo International Airport. That appears to have almost been the case for an Egyptian-American botanist on flight 986 from New York's JFK airport, who got picked out of line (...)
CAIRO: United States President Barack Obama has started change. This change is to dramatically cutting US funds to promote democracy in Egypt, a cut that could negatively affect democracy in the region. This cut could affect anti-corruption programs (...)
SAN DIEGO: California, the sunshine city of the United State. Covering this massive state would be impossible in 108 minutes unless there was some sort of Star Trek beaming technology involved. Presumably, humans have not made it that far just yet. (...)
CAIRO: A Mummy was found under a building site for a youth center in Bahariya Oasis cemetery, 190 miles southwest of Cairo. The 97 cm female mummy was discovered by Egyptian archaeologists. The mummy was completely covered in plaster and adorned (...)
CAIRO: Egypt has a lot of problems with clean water distribution, illnesses, and overcrowding. These problems are shared with a lot of the region's countries. However, one of the main tools in providing a solution is often over looked, thus creating (...)
CARIO: On Tuesday, Egypt's Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin said Egyptian labor protests were focused on wages and contract demands at specific firms and did not pose a broader risk to local or foreign investment.
The main complaints of both (...)
Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build the largest environmental tourism park in the Middle East, a deputy governor said earlier this week. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Saad, deputy governor of the northern province Hail, told reporters on Tuesday the (...)
CAIRO: Officials from 16 countries are discussing the recovery of lost or displaced historical Egyptian artifacts in a two day conference beginning Wednesday in Cairo.
In December 2009 and January 2010, Egypt had announced that it was hosting an (...)