The cast of El-Mestakhabi, a TV show on private satellite station Al-Qahera Wal Nas, issued a statement stressing its "professionalism" in its investigative coverage of a Cairo bathhouse where men allegedly pay for private gay sex parties.
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The president of General Authority for Roads, Bridges and Land Transport said Wednesday that 700 of Egypt's 1,706 bridges have exceeded their maintenance limit and are at risk of collapsing.
Saad El-Goyushi highlighted further the dangerous state of (...)
Faculty members will protest on Monday against an amendment to Egypt's university law, despite the fact that it was dismissed by a top court on Saturday.
Founding member of 9 March Movement for the Independence of Universities, Hani El-Husseini said (...)
After a grueling 14 hours under the water, Egyptian diver Ahmed Gabr emerged on Friday with a prize he has sought for over four years; he had officially gone deeper into the sea than any scuba diver ever before.
Gabr reached a depth of 332.35 metres (...)
Guinness World Records has announced that Egyptian diver Ahmed Gabr is the newtitle holder for deepest salt water scuba dive, at 332.35 metres.
Gabr exited the water onFriday at 12:20 am, almost 14 hours after his entryat 10:30am the previous (...)
Last month, Egyptian security forces cleared two of Cairo's main and overcrowded avenues by displacing hundreds of street vendors who have been working there for years without any consistent government action to address their status.
Their new home (...)
The atmosphere inside the H2O Divers scuba diving center in Sinai's Dahab was bustling with anticipation on Wednesday morning; in less than 24 hours, Egyptian diver Ahmed Gabr will attempt to plunge 350 meters below the surface – deeper than any (...)
Ever visited Egypt for a few months or lived in it for more than a year and wondered if certain things could get any worse? Things like the familiar traffic jam and – if you're a woman – the regular butt-grab or sexually-explicit comment from a (...)
On the first anniversary of Egypt's 30 June mass uprising, Nasserist journalist and political commentator Abdallah El-Sennawy – who participatedin the anti-Muslim Brotherhood mass protests in 2013 – talked to Ahram Online about the prospects of (...)
Interior ministry officials on Monday defended its planned social networking surveillance program after a local newspaper leaked a request for proposal (RFP) drawn up by the ministry for a system to "detect social network security threats and (...)
Most Egyptian political groups have declared their support for one of the only two candidates contesting the upcoming presidential elections: former army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and longtime Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabahi, who finished third (...)
As the presidential race has been launched, and the date set for Egyptians to elect their new president approaches, it can hardly escape attention that the coming vote is worlds apart from the presidential elections which brought ousted Muslim (...)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood-led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) has called for a new wave of protests to start on Wednesday, the third anniversary of the 19 March 2011 national referendum the Brotherhood had supported.
In a statement (...)
Mubarak-era prime minister Ahmed Shafiq has responded to an audio leak in which he criticised an anticipated presidential bid by army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
He said his comments had been taken out of context and he had been speaking when (...)
After an unusually long break, university students across Egypt will return to campuses on Saturday, a starting date twice delayed as the ministries of higher education and interior scrambled to make security arrangements to prevent a repeat of last (...)
As four Egyptian hikers were found dead after being lost in Sinai's mountains, many blame the army for failing to rescue them; an unqualified guide is also a possible cause; military says it did all it could given rugged terrains
After the body of (...)
In August 2011 the Egyptian army launched a military campaign against armed insurgents in Sinai after security in the peninsula broke down after the 25 January uprising earlier the same year.
Even though clashes between armed militants and the army (...)
In his first trip outside the country since ousting former president Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's army chief Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met with his Russian counterparts in Moscow to discuss a planned $2 billion arms deal.
The deal includes a Russian air (...)
Prominent Egyptian writer Belal Fadl said on Sunday that he had officially terminated his relationship with daily newspaper Al-Shorouk for censoring his article on the same day.
The paper's chief editor has denied the censorship accusations.
On (...)
"This is a catastrophe," Mansoura resident and physician Khaled Abdel-Rahman told Ahram Online commenting on the blast in the Nile Delta city that killed 13 and injured over 130 in the early Tuesday hours.
Port-Said Street, one of the city's largest (...)
Egypt's recently finalised draft charter introduced a large number of new articles to, as well as omitted others from, the controversial 2012 constitution predominantly drafted by the Islamist groups in power during the term of ousted Muslim (...)
After the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, liberal and leftist activists were free for the first time in years to found new political parties.
Now, almost three years later and after much political tumult — including one (...)
The Egyptian police tried for the first time on Tuesday to implement a controversial law on protests which was issued by the president earlier this week.
The result -- the arrest of dozens of protesters in downtown Cairo -- triggered a backlash from (...)
Egyptian university student activists are outraged following a cabinet decision to allow police onto campuses without the prior authorisation of university administrators or Egypt's prosecution.
In light of recent unrest facing universities (...)
Activists gathered on Monday to commemorate the second anniversary of the 2011 Mohamed Mahmoud Street clashes when dozens of protesters were killed by police.
The demonstration was held one day before the actual anniversary of the beginning of the (...)