Following the announcement of the Official Selection of the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, the festival revealed its short films in competition and the Cinéfondation selection 2019.
Presided by Claire Denis, the Cinéfondation and short films jury will (...)
Economic and Commercial Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Cairo Han Ping on Monday said the volume of trade exchange between Egypt and China jumped to USD 13.87 billion in 2018, compared to USD 10.8 billion in 2017.
Interviewed by MENA, Han added (...)
The international delegation tasked with observing and following up on the referendum on Egypt's constitutional amendments said that the voter turnout doubled nationwide on the third day of the voting, compared to the previous two days.
According to (...)
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met on Monday Speaker of the Cypriot parliament Demetris Syllouris.
Welcoming the speaker, Sisi underscored the deeply rooted ties between both friendly nations, asserting Egypt's keenness to bolster these ties at (...)
Egypt striker Ahmed "Kouka" Hassan scored his 10th league goal in Greece as Olympiacos beat Lamia 3-1 on Sunday.
The 26-year old attacker came off the bench in the 58th minute to score his team's third goal in the 85th minute and secure the full (...)
With rising prices, a crowded rental market and low interest rates, it now makes sense to buy rather than rent a property. First-time home ownership is, however, falling because young people can't afford it.Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (...)
The Israeli elections concluded with expected results, giving Binyamin Netanyahu another term that may be marred by some legal wrangling, or even a verdict against him. The fact is, the radical right will rule Israel in the coming phase; the (...)
D-CAF's 8th edition (29 March-21April)
Greek Campus
28 Falaki St, Bab Al-Louk, Cairo, Tel 010 90322400
Fri 19, 8pm: Contributing fresh and creatively-mixed genres and sounds to D-CAF's music programme this year, these three emerging Egyptian artists (...)
An important event for Egypt's film community since it was established by documentary filmmaker Hashem Al-Nahhas in 1991 (initially as round 11 of a Cairo documentary festival that had been held in 1971-1980), the annual Ismailia International Film (...)
The trade exchange between Egypt and Greece increased in 2018 by 37.5%, reaching €1.8bn, compared to €1.3bn in 2017, the Minister of Trade and Industry of Egypt, Amr Nassar, stated on Wednesday.
He continued that Egypt's exports to Greece increased (...)
Egypt started on Sunday a joint military exercise with the Greek and Cypriot air and naval forces, called ‘Medusa 8,' in the Mediterranean Sea, the military spokesperson Tamer El Refaie said in a statement.
The Egyptian army is participating in the (...)
Greek police clashed on Saturday with groups of migrants and refugees camped in a field close to the country's northern border hoping to cross to neighboring countries and travel onward to northern Europe, witnesses said.
Hundreds of people (...)
Greek police fired tear gas on Friday to disperse migrants who had gathered in a field near the country's border with Northern Macedonia in the hope of making their way illegally up through the Balkans toward northern Europe.
Hundreds have made (...)
Egypt remains a strategic partner of the United States, as the two side closely work together in various fields, a US Department of State official told the Daily News Egypt on Wednesday.
"Even if this relationship has seen differences in some (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has made a tour of the exhibition of the Global Forum for Higher Education and Scientific Research , which kicked off earlier Thursday at the New Administrative Capital, where he stressed the importance of (...)
The fits and agitation exhibited by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) are a reaction to the shock delivered by the results of the 31 March local elections. The ruling party lost not just the (...)
I have visited Brazil twice in the past but have never truly had the opportunity to understand its land and identity during those visits. The first time was in 2009 to attend the UNESCO World Heritage Conference in Brasilia. I stayed one week and (...)
Sweden's Tällberg Foundation organised on Sunday a forum in partnership with the American University in Cairo's (AUC) School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), in which it introduced prominent leaders from the world who spoke about their (...)
Attackers on a motorcycle threw an explosive device, possibly a hand grenade, at the Russian consulate in Athens early on Friday, police said.
"It was probably a hand grenade. No one was injured," a police official told Reuters, adding that it was (...)
Egypt's Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs Nabila Makram will head to New Zealand on Tuesday to visit the 11 Egyptians injured in the Christchurch mosque attacks this weekend which left 51 people dead.
A gunman attacked two mosques in (...)
The Pentagon, State Department and Congress have spelled it out loud and clear: Washington's Turkish ally has to choose. It can either have the S-400 Triumph missiles from Russia or the F-35 stealth fighters plus Patriot missiles from the US. If (...)
The biggest irony about the Palestinian cause these days is how the US keeps boasting of having a “Deal of the Century” to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict while everyone remains in the dark about its content. With regard to the Arabs, the (...)
Cyprus' real estate company, Aristo Developers, has signed an exclusive contract with Egyptian company ‘Invest In' to market its real estate projects in the Egyptian market and the Middle East region.
Aristo has been operating in the real estate (...)
What a fracas. The dust has hardly settled from the joyous New Year celebrations — feasting, hugging, singing, kissing and wishing each other a Happy New Year. How sincere, how strong was our wish.
Here we are only 60 some days later and the world (...)
Egypt's Defence Minister Mohamed Zaki discussed with his Greek counterpart Evangelos Apostolakis ways of boosting military cooperation between Egypt and Greece on Thursday, Egyptian Armed Forces said.
The talks between Zaki and Apostolakis, who is (...)
