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Close to the heart of Cairo, specifically in Islamic Cairo, behind the Multi-Religious Compound (Magma' Al-Adyan) lies an area renowned for its pottery industry. There, a number of (...)
“Article 6 [of the 22 November Constitutional Declaration] aims to ensure the country's safety against irresponsible actions by some groups, and the constitutional declaration will expire once the referendum result is announced. I invite all (...)
The eagerly-anticipated Cairo derby is set to get underway as Egypt's top duo clash for the 10th time in the month of Ramadan.
While maintaining a superior overall head-to-head record over their bitter rivals, Ahli also have the upper hand in games (...)
Approximately 1,500 participants in demonstration of Friday of the Only Demand decided to organize a sit-in in Tahrir Square despite the differences among the demonstrators' demands.
Some demands include the transfer of power from the head of the (...)
CAIRO: Passengers were forced to escape on lifeboats when a fire broke out on a ferry carrying more than 1,200 passengers from the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba to Egypt on Thursday, a maritime official said.
The official from Egypt's Red Sea (...)
Thousands of Egyptians filled Tahrir Square on Friday morning to protest the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' (SCAF) recent changes to the law regulating parliamentary elections and demand the council transfer power to a civilian authority. The (...)
“The military council will bear the anger of the people if it postpones the parliamentary elections,” Nader Bakkar, spokesperson for the Salafi Nour Party, has said.
At a rally in Alexandria, Bakkar objected to the constituent committee that the (...)
Around 30,000 protesters gathered in Tahrir Square Friday to protest the ruling military council's performance and their numbers continued to rise into the late afternoon for the demonstration dubbed “Correcting the Path of the Revolution.”
Some of (...)
Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie said on Wednesday that presidential hopefuls Ayman Nour and Hamdeen Sabbahi had both asked for the Brotherhood's support in upcoming elections. The remarks came during a conference organized by the (...)
Caught between a capitalist logic to encourage investments in a slowing economy, and a revolutionary reality that demands immediate attention to social justice, Samir Radwan's interim Finance Ministry was not able to produce a tax system that serves (...)
Hundreds of employees of state-run information centers staged a protest on Monday in front of their trade union headquarters--despite heavy security--to demand that the government make good on earlier promises of salary raises and benefits.
This (...)
Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has imposed new restrictions aimed at tightening control over the SMS messaging services provided by mobile phone companies and media institutions in an apparent effort to preempt (...)
The government has decided to apply the fifth phase of planned electricity fee increases in November, according to an official source.
A 7.5-percent fee increase on electricity consumed in November would be included on electricity bills issued the (...)
What are young people listening to today? Twelve-year-old Omar Mohamed gives his recommendations
Music is a big thing in my life and in that of my friends. I am 12 years old, and most of my friends spend a lot of time downloading songs from the (...)
Egypt's Supreme Council for Energy said it will proceed with its plan for rationing electricity consumption.
The council, chaired by Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, said the scheme will continue until Egypt's heatwave is over, but power cuts will not (...)
Electricity cuts continued in a number of Cairo districts and other provinces, sparking outrage among citizens. In Suez, citizens are subject to disconnections up to three times a day.
The Minister of Electricity and Energy, Hassan Younis, called (...)
"There's no alternative to Egyptian mediation in the Palestinian reconciliation process," announced a number of Hamas leaders and members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) during a meeting with an Egyptian delegation of Egyptian Muslim (...)
Thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood greeted Mohamed ElBaradei, the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, during his tour of the Governorate of Fayoum on Friday. After performing the afternoon prayer in the Mubarak (...)
Around 250 workers from the Amonsito Company organized a protest yesterday in front of the Supreme Court and filed two reports to the attorney general demanding the enforcement of an agreement they had reached with Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel (...)
Anger is mounting among workers protesting in front of the Egyptian parliament. A group of laborers from the Amonsito Textile Company, who say they have gone 26 months without receiving back pay, tore off their clothes yesterday in an attempt to (...)
Officers from the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) who are in the third day of their sit-in strike in front of the People's Assembly said they have been threatened by their general managers who said they would fire all participants of (...)
The lives of nearly 1600 students at a school in Minya are being threatened as cracks have begun to appear in the walls and ceiling of their elementary and junior high school. Many of the students' guardians said the school administration has (...)
Workers of the Maasara Telephone Equipment Manufacturing Company staged demonstrations on Tuesday, accusing the government of ignoring their demands. The 1200 workers say they haven't been paid salaries for four months. They also demand that their (...)
Workers from Amonsito textile company continued their sit-in strike for the 19th day in front of the Shura Council making this the third week they have performed Friday prayers on Qasr el-Aini Street in downtown Cairo.
Parliament failed to reach an (...)
Roughly one hundred female students at Fayoum University Saturday came down with food poisoning after having dinner in the university dormitory, where they had eaten mashed potatoes, beans and yogurt. Some students remain in critical condition, (...)