CAIRO: Nile University honored Haitham Desouky, one of its R&D engineers, on Dec. 12 for winning the first prize in the "Stars of Science" Competition, for his touch screen invention Vivifi.
Vivifi is a sticker that can be placed under any (...)
CAIRO: Protesters in Tahrir Square were divided over opening it to traffic as numbers dwindled, with suggestions ranging from moving the sit-in to outside the cabinet headquarters to calling it off altogether.
The sit-in in its current form (...)
CAIRO: For teenagers around the world, acne is a constant source of depression and lack of confidence. Egyptian youth are no different, as they continue to seek both mainstream and alternative medicines to get rid of the coming-of-age (...)
CAIRO: Under the slogan "Health . For a Better Life, the International Health and Nutrition Exhibition and Conference kicked off Sunday at the Cairo International Conference Center under the auspices of the Ministers of Health and Trade and (...)
Sharm El-Sheikh has long been the tourist hotspot of the Sinai Peninsula, attracting hundreds of hotels, international cafés, bars and restaurants. Tourists from all over the world come to relax, swim, dive and stay up clubbing until dawn.
The (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have shut down the Iranian Al-Alam television station's Cairo office in Maspiro on Thursday, and confiscated their broadcasting equipment, including cameras, computers and recording tapes.
Officials claim the (...)
CAIRO: On the morning of July 23, state-run newspapers limited their coverage of the national holiday to President Hosni Mubarak's speech commemorating the achievements of the 1952 Revolution.
Meanwhile, independent newspapers designated articles (...)
CAIRO: Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) launched the first of its "home away from home hotel facilities in the Middle East and Africa this week, with the opening of its StayBridge residential suites at the company's five-star hotel in (...)
CAIRO: A recent poll showed that 37 percent of Egyptians working in the public sector or those who have retired prefer to have the government increase their income by raising their salary or pension rather than offer them subsidies.
A total of (...)
The soft lighting and captivating simplicity of Al-Azhar's Wikalet El-Ghoury provided the perfect setting for the stories presented by the Women and Memory Forum (WMF) earlier this week.
Originally founded in 1995, WMF is a non-profit (...)
CAIRO: As the Olympic Games draw ever closer, the Pharaohs are flying to Beijing to show the world what they are made of.
Egypt has turned out world champions in various sports - skeet shooting, modern pentathlon and long-distance swimming. But, (...)
CAIRO: There is an Arabic proverb that says, "No one sleeps with an empty stomach. But that's certainly not the case in Egypt these days.
According to the Ministry of Social Solidarity, 20 percent of Egyptian families live below the poverty (...)
CAIRO: The People's Assembly approved amendments to Child Law 12/1996 drafted by the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) after months-long debates.
One of the most welcome articles was one criminalizing FGM, stipulating a fine of (...)