In Sinai and Upper Egypt all sorts of guns, missiles and ammunition have a price tag depending on date of production, country of origin and condition of each item.
Since the January 25 Revolution, the security issue whether associated with terror in (...)
In Arabic the water hyacinth plant is literally called flowers of the Nile, but metaphorically it is referred to as the ‘soft killer'. The reason is that the invasive plant spreads so rapidly that it blocks the course of the Nile, in some areas (...)
While calls have been voiced for years for upgrading technical schools such that their school-leavers would fill in a gap in the labour market, the fact on the ground is that these schools are still suffering from a bundle of problems.
Having low (...)
Although most people drink tap water, many members of the public opt for bottled water, especially as water dispensers for domestic use are becoming more expensive.
For more than a month now, the local market has been somewhat short of bottled (...)
Dumbstruck by the nation-wide strike of train drivers on Sunday, commuters have been reported as going through a hard time trying to find alternative means of transport to reach their destinations.
The paralysis hitting the railway services since (...)
CAIRO - Frequent electricity outage, which is expected according to official statements to increase in summer, has made high demand on electric generators. The cuts of the electric current, almost on a daily basis across the country, have had an (...)
Field reports say that maintenance of the local road network has almost come to a complete halt because the soaring prices of oil derivatives have caused around 75 per cent of road contracting companies to withdraw from the market.
Daker Abdallah, (...)
CAIRO - Unlike residents of Tahrir Square and its environs, people living on Street l0 in the Moqattam district, south-east Cairo, experienced for the first time this week the fear associated with the sound of gunshots and the strong suffocating (...)
According to figures released by the National Cancer Registry Programme, the ratio of cancer incidence in this country is l50 cases per l00,000 individuals annually, while cure rates do not exceed 35 to 50 per cent, although the average rate in (...)
After the suspension of trade movement between Egypt and Libya via Sallum border crossing for about four weeks, the borders were finally reopened yesterday. Talks between tribal chiefs and elders and wisemen of both sides bore fruit, concluding a (...)
Khaled Mahmoud has been a practising dentist for about 25 years now and, although on paper he hands over the medical waste of his clinic to the nearest public hospital for thermal treatment, the fact is that the red plastic bags find their way to (...)
Looking to their left, motorists driving on October Bridge towards Tahrir Square from Ramses may have ceased to notice the lifeless building covered in smoke stains.
The huge building on the Nile Corniche used to be a throbbing hub for policymaking (...)
Fifteen-year-old Menna Hashem is so happy that she is going to get engaged in a few weeks' time. Menna, one of six siblings born to a casual day-to-day worker that earns around LE 400 a month, is a seventh-grade student at a governmental school.
She (...)
The storage of locally produced wheat has proved to be a stumbling stone in the way of improving the quality of subsidised baladi bread.
The ad-hoc presidential committee assigned to follow up this file has objected to the so-called ‘dust silos' (...)
‘Read, think and decide' and / or ‘Why say no?' are examples of eye-catching headlines in leaflets that had found their way into the hands of voters days before the referendum on the controversial constitution.
A media war between those for and (...)
In the capital as well as in governorates, life proceeds as usual whether politicians agree or disagree, but in hotbeds that witness direct reaction to what has been going on since the January 25 Revolution the picture is completely different.
Mona (...)
The secret behind the exceptionally large number of motorcycles found on the Egyptian streets these days lies in cheap Chinese brands most of which lack standard specifications, as dealers themselves admit.
These motorcycles, usually referred to on (...)
Households decorated with hand-made pieces made of wood and other natural materials are usually a pride to their occupants because of the finesse, originality and aesthetic value.
Today, veteran artisans complain that the dominance of technology and (...)
An ad-hoc committee of archaeologists is currently being assigned to come up with technical solutions to save the 200-year old palace of Mohamed Ali Pasha in the Cairo suburb of Shubra el-Kheima, which was subject to a faulty restoration process (...)
A report written by the Health Committee of the Shura Council (consultative Upper Parliamentary House) has set the alarm on the phenomenal rise of addiction among youth particularly during the past five years.
According to its report, which the (...)
Before the Revolution, Amani Tawfilis, a middle-aged dentist and mother of two university students, was quite interested in TV dramas, although she watched local news bulletins from time to time.
But today Amani is keen to stay tuned to different (...)
President Mohammed Morsi's reassurances to the tourism industry in his first presidential address given at Cairo University were not far-reaching enough for the decision-makers in a sector whose revenues account for around 10 per cent of the (...)
Egypt's fifth president is only a stone's throw away from the palace, from which he and his administration are to run this country for four years, if not more.
Just as the presidential plane has of late been released several times from its hangar (...)
The turbulent events taking place in this country since the January 25 revolution have turned the majority of the 85 million population into close political observers driven by the hope for a better life.
According to a recent study, the stress (...)
CAIRO - Fisheries in the Delta governorate of Kafr el-Sheikh, whose production is sold in about l5 governorates, are facing a major problem concerning health and hygiene, which is caused by the kind of fish feed used by farmers.
Both owners and (...)