Egypt and the World Bank reviewed progress on key transport and industrial infrastructure projects, including the Cairo-Alexandria Trade Logistics Development Project (CATLDP) and upgrades in Upper Egypt's industrial zones.
The discussions took (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Communities exceeded its first-quarter housing target, building 15,329 units, a 118.5 per cent achievement rate.
During a general session of the House of Representatives, Minister Sherif El-Sherbiny (...)
A consortium of Egyptian electrical equipment manufacturers will compete in mid-July for two international tenders, worth EGP 1bn, to implement high and ultra-high voltage transmission lines in Morocco.
Kamal Koraytem, Chairperson of the High Dam (...)
The High Dam Electrical and Industrial Projects Company (Hideleco) aims to complete the 220kV overhead transmission line between El-Owainat and Gabal Al-Kamel in New Valley governorate before the end of the year, in cooperation with the Military (...)
Preparations for the 2018 presidential election gained momentum on Tuesday when President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi issued a decree naming the members of the National Electoral Commission's (NEC) board.
Decree 503/2017 ratified Lashin Ibrahim, deputy (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated several projects in the governorate of Qena and urged the government to provide information in an easier fashion so that the common citizen could understand.
The president asked Minister of Transportation (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Transportation has completed the upgrading of 11 railway stations, with an investment cost worth EGP 500 million, according Minister Ibrahim El-Demeiry.
This comes within the framework of the ministry's strategy to upgrade the (...)
During the 30 June demonstrations, the Copts broke out of their isolation to fight against oppression. Gone are the days when the Church spoke for the Coptic community or negotiated on its behalf. When they went out to protest, the Copts asserted (...)
A man sits outdoors playing the rebab, singing a tale, and people start gathering around him, amused. Such is the typical image of the folk storyteller, in which the author is rarely known and each narrator down the line changes bits and pieces of (...)
SOHAG, Egypt: After a fight between an undutiful son and his father, the father murdered his son by shooting him. The son had threatened to kill his father and pointed a firearm in his father's face in Girga city in the governorate of Sohag in Upper (...)
CAIRO – Life is going to back normal in the City of Girga in the Upper Egyptian Governorate in Sohag, about 650km south of Cairo, the Middle East News Agency reported on Monday.
Clashes between families in Sohag had erupted on Saturday night, (...)
I know there is nothing better for a politician than to appear on a talk show to criticize government policies, and is thrilled if the audience or even the anchor seem to agree. It is even better if some trademark Egyptian humor is injected in the (...)
While so many cried foul over the results of Egypt's parliamentary elections, the reality is that the opposition parties failed utterly to mount effective campaigns, writes Abdel-Moneim Said
I could not turn the page and move on to other subjects (...)
I could not turn the page and move on to other subjects after encountering that outpouring of anger on the part of Al-Ahram readers in response to my commentaries on the recent parliamentary elections. Among the many letters I received, there was (...)
Come the 28th, Egyptian voters will be called upon to choose 508 members of parliament from among a record 5,121 competing candidates, averaging a little over 10 contenders per parliamentary seat. The forthcoming parliament will include, for the (...)
Gamal Essam El-Din reviews the ground ahead of next Sunday's scramble for parliamentary seats
Some 40 million people are eligible to vote in the 28 November People's Assembly elections, and those who cast their votes will be able to choose from a (...)
Come the 28th, Egyptian voters will be called upon to choose 508 members of parliament from among a record 5,121 competing candidates, averaging a little over 10 contenders per parliamentary seat. The forthcoming parliament will include, for the (...)
Wafd Party Secretary-General explains the challenges and opportunities facing Egypt's oldest political party in the forthcoming parliamentary elections to Shaden Shehab
, 65, joined the Wafd Party when it re-emerged in 1984, his Coptic family having (...)
Travelling workers have become a common sight in the streets of many of Egypt's big cities. Eslam Soliman listens to their stories
Far from the places of their birth and their families and waking daily at a very early hour in the shantytowns in (...)
As economic and technological change drives forward, social and political change will follow, writes Abdel-Moneim Said
Countries can change in various ways. The conditions in some may be overturned by social or political revolution. In others, whole (...)
Al-Ahram: A Diwan of contemporary life (660)
Loaf of life
Egypt was the first country to make bread. Not surprisingly, says Professor Yunan Labib Rizk, it was also the first country to have bread-related problems
Bread has gained considerable renown (...)
People tend to think that monks are not active; their ideals, it is believed, lie in acquiring salvation through fasting and prayer alone. But this is by no means the case. All work is regarded as a spiritual activity whether on the land, in the (...)
Al-Ahram: A Diwan of contemporary life (614)
Separate ways
A story in Al-Ahram in 1929 centred on the ties that bound the churches of Egypt and Abassinya. Professor Yunan Labib Rizk goes further, to the events that led to an eventual split
Under the (...)
Al-Ahram: A Diwan of contemporary life (587)
By the people
On 2 May 1936 Egyptians headed to the polls to elect their parliamentary representatives, the fifth time that elections were held under the provisions of the 1923 Constitution. Professor (...)
The Supreme Administrative Court dealt the NDP a stunning blow by ordering that the 25 December by-elections in 17 districts be confined to those who ran in 2000. Gamal Essam El-Din reports
A Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) ruling revoking (...)
