Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, members of his ruling party said.
In Modi's biggest (...)
A statue of a woman, gazing into the horizon, dressed in a long-sleeved dress and wearing a head scarf, being tightly embraced from behind by a soldier, his arms around her waist─that was the final spark that added to mounting furor against a series (...)
Ministry of State for Administrative Development has inaugurated two projects to improve services for the residents of west of Sohag city and of El Balyana city in Sohag Governorate. This comes as one of the Ministry's plans for boosting the (...)
Four people were killed and one person was severely injured in a car accident in Sohag on Tuesday.
Security sources said the accident took place when a truck hit two motor bikes carrying five people on the agricultural road to a village in Balyana (...)
As the world celebrates the centennial of its discovery, Nevine El-Aref asks who actually owns the iconic bust of Queen Nefertiti?
It seems that there is no foreseeable resolution to the long conflict between Germany and Egypt over ownership of the (...)
Following almost two days of blocking the entrance gate of Abydos Temple in El-Balyana village near the upper Egyptian town of Sohag, protestors suspended their demonstration, left the site and allowed visitors to enter the temple.
The suspension (...)
Demonstrators in Egypt's Upper Egyptian Sohag governorate have stepped up their ongoing protest against a local shortage of butane gas cylinders by blocking the railroad line between Aswan and Cairo and the entrance to the nearby Temple of (...)
Trains traveling through Upper Egypt returned to their normal schedules on Friday after demonstrators blocked railroad tracks the day before to protest the lack of gas cylinders in their village.
Citizens of Balyana village had complained all week (...)
Several NGOs have slammed the prosecution's investigations into Wednesday's clashes between security forces and Coptic rioters. The violence came as thousands of Copts protested a decision by the Giza authorities to halt construction at a local (...)
Emergency response went into effect in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag Thursday morning after a fuel barge capsized in the Nile near the city of Naga Hammadi Wednesday night. The alert was made in anticipation of the possibility that the (...)
David O'Connor's Abydos: Egypt's First Pharaohs and the Cult of Osiris. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo (2009)
Abydos is situated on the western bank of the Nile about seven kilometres west of the town of Balyana in Middle Egypt. It (...)
Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria, Patriarch of Saint Mark Episcopate, left Cairo yesterday heading toward the United States to conduct medical examinations and X-rays at Cleveland Clinic in the United States of America.
Escorting the (...)
By Jailan Halawi
The incident put a pall on millennium madness and dealt a sobering blow to hopes that sectarian strife had begun to recede in once volatile southern regions. But after a year of hearings and deliberations, the Sohag Criminal Court (...)