The president of the Egyptian holding company Egypt Air Tawfik Assi has announced that all the company's international and local flights arrived at their destinations on schedule over the last two days and were not affected by political events in (...)
Protesters cut off vital roads in the “cave region" of central Sinai, expressing anger over gas shortages after the recent implementation of the government's voucher draining system program.
The demonstrators said they were surprised to hear of the (...)
By Salma Hegab
Protesters demanding jobs and activists from 6 April were attacked again in front of Hesham Qandil's house on Monday night, according to witnesses.
Mohamed Al-Assad, from 6 April movement, was detained in addition to one other (...)
French hostage Denis Allex is seen in this frame grab. An Islamist group in Somalia has issued a video of Allex, held in the Horn of Africa country, showing him asking France to meet his captors' demands. A copy of the video issued by U.S.-based (...)
In this photo released by the Iraqi Government, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to reporters in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Iraq's prime minister says continued violence won't slow the U.S. military's withdrawal from Iraq. (...)
A toxicology report into the death of alleged torture victim Sa'ad Said released on Tuesday has ruled out drug overdose as a cause of death.
Said's family claim he was tortured to death in a police station following his arrest in November last (...)
The National Salvation Front will issue specific prerequisites for potential candidates wishing to run on its lists or name.
Parties in the front have to present list candidates that are not enemies of the revolution or oppose it, present (...)
img width="300" height="199" src="http://dailynewsegypt.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2-5-Tahani-300x199.jpg" class="attachment-medium" alt="Tahany El-Gebaly holds a press conference to discuss her appeal with the Supreme Constitutional Court (...)
A plain-clothes Egyptian policeman restrains photographer Thomas Coex on the ground after he was physically stopped from photographing France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner who were jogging on the streets in Sharm (...)
An Egyptian homeless of the populous Cairo district of Qalet al-Kabsh, tries to get through anti-riot policemen as she demonstrates near the Egyptian National Assembly compound in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 9, 2007, demanding relocation after a (...)
A glimpse into CIC's photo school
Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) was founded in 2004 in Cairo out of the city's lack of any real space for the development of the visual, artistic and cultural sector.
Maha Maamoun, Thomas Hartwell, Rana El Nemr, (...)
The Helen O'Grady Drama Academy is all about bringing out the inner star in kids
Courtesy of Helen O'Grady Drama Academy's Facebook page
Helen O'Grady, drama teacher and actress, rented a little hall in a suburb in Perth, Australia, in 1979, and (...)
A performance during last year's Hakawy festival
Courtesy of AFCA's Facebook group
Although Egypt has registered significant progress in its educational system, it is still lagging behind more developed countries. That is why parents have started to (...)
img width="300" height="196" src="http://dailynewsegypt.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2-3-Borhami-300x196.jpg" class="attachment-medium" alt="Salafi preacher Yasser Borhami lauded the new constitutions for what he saw as “full unprecedented (...)
Egyptians voting in the final round of a referendum on a new constitution championed by President Mohamed Morsy and his Islamist allies against fierce protests from the secular-leaning opposition. (DNE/ Mohamed Omar)
People queued at the polling (...)
“We will not go to the meeting," said Emad Abu Ghazi, political secretary of Al-Dostour Party, in response to the request by the Constituent Assembly for opposition leaders to take part in a Friday meeting to discuss the draft (...)
By Salah El-Monoufi
The Ministry of Electricity will hold an international bid in the coming days for the construction rights to the Dairut Electrical plant in the Beheira governorate.
The decision comes after the ministry received $3.1 bn in (...)
The Minister of Manpower and Immigration, Khaled Al-Azhari, travelled to Jordan Wednesday to resolve the current issue surrounding Egyptian migrant workers in the kingdom. According to the ministry, Al-Azhari is expected to meet with his Jordanian (...)
The Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland has ruled to deny Egyptian representatives access to the file on the criminal case against several former regime members, following a complaint made by the defendants.
A statement released on Monday by the (...)
Egyptians gear up for the final phase of the constitutional referendum. (DNE/ Hassan Ibrahim)
Politicians are taking off on whirlwind tours of 17 governorates to speak with Egyptians ahead of Saturday's vote. As Egypt braces for the second and final (...)
Women gather in Al-Nadha square to protest against the constitutional referendum. (DNE/ Hassan Ibrahim)
Dozens of women gathered at Al-Nahda Square in Giza on Wednesday evening, in a campaign against the constitutional referendum and the proposed (...)
The government plans to revise its recent decree concerning the increase of diesel prices, according to the minister of industry and foreign trade. Hatem Saleh made the announcement during a meeting with the members and board of directors of the (...)
Prevailing pessimism regarding the economy was reflected by the general consumer confidence index and its sub-indices that retreated during November, according to a report conducted by the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC).
The IDSC's (...)
By Ahmed Salama
Recent plans announced by Carrefour to take over the Metro Market and Khair Zaman supermarket chains, led to fears of the creation of a new monopoly that would eliminate competition within the industry.
Experts said it was necessary (...)