As the sun rose on Bahr Al-Baqar, a small village on the outskirts of Egypt's Sharqiya governorate, Nabila Aly was scared and almost certain that something bad was going to happen. Her eight-year-old son, Mamdouh, had just told her that he wanted (...)
A recent Etisalat ad has been banned by the Egyptian Consumer Protection Authority (CPA) over what it described as abusive content, the authority's head told Ahram Online.
"The ad encourages domestic violence and contradicts customs and traditions," (...)
Egypt's main EGX30 index fell by 5.09 percent Sunday to 6,807 points, its lowest level since January 2014, as Saudi stocks plunge and oil prices continue to slide.
On Friday, prices of US oil dropped two percent below the $40 per barrel threshold (...)
Hundreds of Tax Authority employees gathered in front of the Journalist Syndicate on Monday to protest the new civil service law, calling it unjust.
The law was passed by the government last March with the aim of "reforming Egypt's administrative (...)
The Georgian National Ballet 'Sukhishvili' was founded in 1945 as the first professional state dance company in Georgia.
The renowned company has performed around the world from the Royal Albert Hall in Great Britain, La Scala in Italy, and the (...)
As the sun rose on Bahr Al-Baqar, a small village on the outskirts of Egypt's Sharqiya governorate, Nabila Aly was scared and almost certain that something bad was going to happen. Her eight-year-old son, Mamdouh, had just told her that he wanted (...)
Egyptian and Russian customs officials signed on Wednesday a protocol in Cairo aiming at regulating and enhancing the flow of trade between the two countries.
The agreement aims at exchanging information and data between customs authorities in both (...)
A press conference organised by a number of political forces in Cairo was held late Wednesday to affirm support to the Palestinian resistance against Israel and to voice disapproval over the truce suggested by Egypt.
"The press conference today (...)
A recently issued decree restricting preaching to Islamic scholars who are certified by either Al-Azhar's Grand Sheikh or the ministry of religious endowments has provoked divided views among preachers and Islamists.
The law, which also applies to (...)
Three independent political figures known for their opposition to the army's intervention in Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's ouster and the subsequent violent crackdown against his supporters issued a statement on Saturday calling for unity and a (...)
On the last night before an electoral silence is imposed on Egypt's two presidential candidates -- ex-defence minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Nasserist politician Hamdeen Sabahi -- thousands of the latter's supporters flocked to Abdeen Square in (...)
Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi has met a number of Egyptian artists and intellectuals – including writers, filmmakers and actors – as part of a series of encounters with various representatives of society.
During the meeting held late on (...)
Tawfiq Saleh (1926 – 2013), a pioneer of realism in Egyptian cinema, was commemorated during the opening of a four-day conference on 'Post-2011 Cinema in Egypt' held at the AUC's film department
On the evening of Thursday 24 April, a commemoration (...)
As the sun rose on Bahr Al-Baqar, a small village on the outskirts of Egypt's Sharqiya governorate, Nabila Aly was scared and almost certain that something bad was going to happen. Her eight-year-old son, Mamdouh, had just told her that he wanted (...)
After 23 films and an almost seven-year hiatus, Mohamed Khan is back with the joyful and painful Factory Girl,which came out in cinemas Wednesday, 19 March.
Factory Girl, the third collaboration between Khan and scriptwriter Wissam Soliman, deals (...)
Six-month investigation by the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) on the dispersal of the Rabaa Al-Adaweya protest camp on 14 August reveals that police overreacted to initial shots from Islamists
Egypt's government-appointed human rights (...)
It's a quiet afternoon in Sheikh Mohamed El-Qassem Street in central Cairo; the green doors of the modest houses are mostly locked and the residents out at work.
On the street corner, a few women sit together, catching up on the latest gossip and (...)
Beyond the headlines of Sunday's bomb blast on a bus carrying 33 tourists in the Red Sea resort town of Taba, which killed at least four, including three South Koreans and the Egyptian bus driver, is the fact that the attack was the first to target (...)
With a new draft of Egypt's constitution complete and due to be put to national referendum in a number of weeks, social-justice advocates are at odds over whether the amended charter will help implement their demands.
“This is the best constitution, (...)
Egypt's first protest to gain authorisation under a new protest law, held Wednesday in central Cairo, went smoothly with no clashes between police and protesters but with intermittent disputes breaking out between supporters and opponents of army (...)
Former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi is willing to run in the upcoming presidential elections if a consensus is reached by political forces regarding his candidacy, the "Revolution's Candidate" campaign announed Monday.
If revolutionary (...)
Nationwide celebrations and protests are scheduled to take place in Egypt Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the 6 October 1973 war against Israel with rival camps eyeing the iconic Tahrir Square as their destination.
Egyptian military (...)
The sound of train horns has stopped at Cairo station. The Cafeteria, known for its endless customers, is closed. There are no long queues of travellers pushing and shoving to purchase tickets to get on a train.
The newly-renovated 159 year-old (...)
Demonstrators gathered Saturday in front of the prosecutor general's office in downtown Cairo to demand the release of Revolutionary Socialist Haitham Mohamedein.
Mohamedein, a labour lawyer, was arrested at a military checkpoint close to Suez (...)
"Gamal Abdel-Nasser taught us about belonging, and it is that sense of belonging that brought us back together again on 30 June [2013]," says 60-year-old labor union member Mohamed Abdel-Razek as the anniversary of the late leader's death (...)