On 13 August, security forces carried out operations at Al-Nahda Square and near Rabaa Al Adaweya Mosque to disperse sit-ins in support of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, leading to over 800 deaths from the sit-ins and over 1300 deaths in total all (...)
img src="http://i2.wp.com/www.dailynewsegypt.com/beta/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/4-21.jpg?fit=300%2C300" class="attachment-medium" alt=""In print media, the borders between opinions and news pieces seem to blur. If it is an opinion story, you can (...)
"I hope to be exempted."
The above is a widespread wish for many youths between the ages of 18 to 30.
Military service is an obligation for all Egyptian men, who must report for duty before their 30th birthday to see if the army will take them. (...)
Trying out new food is always an adventure. This time however we did not venture too far. We decided to try food from our neighbour to the south: Sudan.
Fortunately a few Sudanese restaurants are scattered around the Opera Square at Al-Attabah. They (...)
Drama mirrors reality in a creative and entertaining way, as both an expression of societal issues and aspirations, and a powerful means of shaping perceptions. There is no doubt that drama production, when strong, is a tool of cultural and (...)
Bab Al-Shaareyah is a historic Cairo neighbourhood dating back to the Ayyubid dynasty of Saladin. The neighbourhood housed two of Cairo's old gates; one was named after the neighbourhood and the other is called Bab El-Bahr. Today, Bab El-Bahr is the (...)
For two weeks, cars have lined up for hundreds of metres on every street that has a gas station. At first, the long hours of waiting were full of frustration and boredom. But as the petrol crisis exacerbated, lines lengthened, frustration turned to (...)
In today's world, freedom of information is a no longer a luxury, but a necessity, particularly for societies aspiring to establish democracy. According to customs of international law, freedom of information is a fundamental human right that is (...)
The trip from downtown Cairo to the city of Damietta is about four hours and half by bus. The trip is not short and could be hectic. For someone who wants to save up thousands of Egyptian pounds on buying furniture, however, the long trip and the (...)
On Sunday 7 April, train drivers began a nationwide strike throughout Egypt resulting in the closures of major railway stations. The train drivers who organised the strike raised technical and financial demands. They called for real and regular (...)
Cairo's streets have been swept by a campaign showing disapproval of the Muslim Brotherhood through honking automobile horns.
The campaign initially started two weeks ago when Omar, a 16 year old student, held up a sign in Nasr City with the slogan (...)
Egypt's religious institutions, political parties, civil society organisations and activists condemned this new episode of sectarian violence. And like other sectarian clashes in the past, the incident has provoked debate about how to end sectarian (...)
Workers from the Ideal Standard factory in the industrial city of 10th of Ramadan who have been on strike and dismissed from their work, Titan Cement at Alexandria and spinning and weaving factories in Mahalla were represented at the press (...)
Wearing a brown galabiya, black headscarf and slippers, she arrives at a stationary house located in a poor neighbourhood. Old women sell vegetables on every corner of the street. Kids play barefoot and run after a shabby ball or old bicycle tires. (...)
“Will Egyptians ever see their stolen billions again?"
This was the main question BBC Arabic attempted to answer through its investigative documentary “Egypt's Stolen Billions". The documentary was aired in September 2012 causing controversy and (...)
On Friday, Sufi groups, political parties and revolutionary groups and movements organized a number of marches and demonstrations in the governorates of Cairo, Qena, Daqahleya and Luxor in support of the Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb.
Abdalla (...)
As she stood in her affluent apartment, his questions caught her off guard. He interrogated her about the man whose pictures she had, but he did not wait for an answer.
Infuriated as he was, he slapped her while screaming obscenities and shoved her (...)
In its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in 2012, Transparency International (TI) announced that Egypt had slipped to 118th out of 176 countries in levels of corruption. The index is mainly concerned with perceptions of corruption in the (...)
Ahmed attends public school in Zaqaziq, Sharqiya, and he wishes his teachers had stricter policies towards cheating.(DNE/ Sarah El Masry)
It is currently exam season in Egypt. Many students are not concerned about the best way to summarise chapters, (...)
Facebook group Egypt Sarcasm Society prepared this satirical poster after the 25 January revolution where Egypt is raped like the character Fatma in “What's the fault of Fatmagul?" soap opera. The Supreme Council for Armed Forces is Mayser (Fatma's (...)
Zawag el-safka involves a much older man paying money to marry a girl for defined period of time
Sarah El Masry
El Azizia village of El Badrashin district, Giza, is an archetype of Egyptian villages. A channel is dug along a bumpy road to irrigate (...)
A number of lesser known opposition parties have formed the “Independent Party Current."
Ahmed Al-Fadali hosted the announcement made Monday at the headquarters of his Democratic Peace Party.
The Nasserist Party joined the new coalition. The party's (...)
Abdel Aal is good at maths and likes to show off the right problems he solves daily
Sarah El Masry
Old Cairo is home to the famous Magra el-Oyoun aqueduct (dating to the 16th century). Although it contains many Coptic and Islamic sites popular with (...)
A poll in 2012 by the National Council for Women showed that on average 22% of underage girls are forced into early marriage
Sarah El Masry
Early marriage was raised in public discourse recently. Nader Bakar, the spokesperson of Al Nour party, which (...)
“I've opened the floodgates."
This is the slogan that appears next to the proud face of the famous Egyptian actress, Shadia, covering the walls of buildings around Cairo. It might be meaningless to foreigners, but to Egyptians, Fouada is a character (...)