It's the brightest time of the year for Muslims worldwide, but in Egypt, residents are celebrating Ramadan amidst nationwide government-implemented power cuts.
In what energy experts are calling a crisis, exorbitant and unprecedented levels of (...)
A recent Ministry of Finance report revealed positive GDP indicators for the financial year 2009/10, but critics maintain that these still fail to translate into better livelihoods for Egypt's poor.
Currently, about 40 percent of the nation (...)
Egypt is a "failed state" according to US magazine Foreign Policy (FP)'s 2010 Failed States Index (FSI), which appeared in the influential magazine's July/August issue.
The index is the result of collaboration between FP and the Fund for Peace, a (...)
In one of his acts, Egyptian stand-up comedian George Azmy satirically mocks Egyptian culture and lifestyle. With time, he says, Egyptians' foreheads will gradually feature glued on see-through slots, where they can conveniently slip in their (...)
Assiut--In the realm of sexual taboos in Egypt, the issue of "intersex individuals"--or those born with "ambiguous genitalia"--is certainly somewhere near the top of the list. While medical professionals take an impartial approach to treatment and (...)
Afro-Jazz fusion Dutch band A Fula's Call, in town for this weekend's Artbeat Festival, are in some ways, living proof that the world is getting smaller.
The band, which formed in 2006, is made up of a melting pot of cultures, effortlessly and (...)
A self-described "beach boy" leading a quiet life in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Messawa has found himself at the center of a national debate due to one fact: he's married to an Israeli. Like another estimated 30,000 Egyptian men across the nation, (...)
Assiut--Residents of Rifa village on the outskirts of Assiut rely on seasonal harvests of crops for their income. The inconsistency of the seasonal harvest has them caught in a permanent state of poverty. Like countless others across Egypt, they (...)
Akhmim village, Sohag-- Two women, clad in black, and a young girl are kneeling over a pile of burning paper at the entrance of Akhmim village's sole, seven-century-old cemetery. They are partaking in what appears to be a death ritual, blowing wisps (...)
The Emergency Law, which has given the Egyptian government sweeping powers to detain citizens for the last three decades, has been extended for two more years. International human rights organizations routinely condemn Egypt's record on political (...)
The secretary-general of Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) met with President Hosni Mubarak yesterday to present the names of candidates selected to run in 1 June elections for the Shura Council, the upper house of Egypt's parliament. (...)
Aswan--In a nation where UNICEF estimates 96 percent of all married women have undergone some form of female genital mutilation (FGM), Aswan's official declaration against the practice earlier this week, marked by First Lady Suzanne Mubarak's (...)
Fifteen prominent Egyptian businessmen are returning home today after attending US President Barack Obama's summit on entrepreneurship in Washington DC, which wrapped up yesterday. Meanwhile, in Egypt, some view Obama's motives--and the summit (...)
Butchers and owners of traditional kebab-and-kofta restaurants--the menu selections of which are usually priced by the kilo--say that skyrocketing meat prices are hurting their businesses.
In Alexandria, Egypt's second largest city, residents (...)
Two youth-led environment groups yesterday hosted in downtown Cairo a photo exhibition featuring Egyptian landmarks and natural scenery to celebrate UNESCO's World Heritage Day.
The exhibition, which featured over 20 photos shot by different (...)
Twenty-five homeless orphans in Alexandria will be off the streets and transferred into their own apartments within one week, after agreement was reached at a meeting yesterday between a charity organization, government officials and the orphans (...)
Roughly two hundred kufeya-clad activists, passionately waving Palestinian flags and carrying signs bearing anti-Israeli slogans alongside portraits of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, demonstrated outside the Egyptian Journalists (...)
The feeling of helplessness bordering on panic that strikes when we suddenly lose power in our homes is familiar to many of us. Overwhelmed by the sudden state of darkness we are so cruelly thrown into, we bravely fumble around for candles and try (...)
Hundreds of students carrying flags and banners bearing patriotic slogans paraded in front of Cairo University this morning, overshadowing the roughly twenty professors that had gathered to participate in a nationwide strike called earlier this (...)
Professors from the nation's public universities are preparing to stage demonstrations Tuesday, March 23, to protest salary shortfalls and on-campus government security interventions, and to demand institutional independence. A one-hour cessation of (...)